Stanford Chances

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what are my chances at Stanford? Below is my info

COURSE RIGOR:
9th:
English 1 Accelerated
Algebra 2/Trig Honors
Biology Honors
Spanish 1 Accelerated
PE (Semester Only)
Dance 1 (Semester Only)
Speech and Debate (Class Period During the School Day)
Religion Elective

10th:
American Literature Honors
AP Calculus AB
Chemistry Honors
Spanish 2 Honors
AP US History
Speech and Debate (Class Period During the School Day)
Religion Elective

11th:
AP English Literature
AP Calculus BC
AP Biology
Physics Honors
Spanish 3 Honors
AP World History
French 1
Religion Elective

12th:
AP English Language
AP Statistics
AP Chemistry
AP Spanish Language
Dance 2 (Semester Only)
AP Economics (Micro and Macro)
American Government (Semester Only)
French 2
Religion Elective

SAT/ACT SCORES
SAT - 1520 (one sitting), 790 math, 730 reading, 21/24 on essay (another attempt I got a 24 on the essay)
ACT - 34 with a 11/12 on the essay
NOT SURE WHICH TO SUBMIT?? OR BOTH???

SAT 2 SCORES (lowest pt of application)
BIOLOGY M - 760
MATH 2 - score TBD
NOT SURE IF I SHOULD SUBMIT??

AP SCORES:
AP English Literature - 5
AP World History - 5
AP US History - 5
AP Biology - 5
AP Calculus AB - 3 (not submitting because I got a 5 on the AB subscore on the BC exam)
AP Calculus BC - 5

EXTRACURRICULARS:

  1. Competitive Jump Rope (10 years)
    regional tournament over 50 medals, nationals top 10 for the past 5 years, world top 10 last year, team captain this year, have coached younger kids on my team
  1. Bollywood Dance (12 years) on my school Bollywood team, have done it outside of school as well but kind of on and off, have performed for 5,000 people
  2. NonProfit Founder CEO (2 years) started an organization to teach Foreign Languages to young children as I am fluent in Spanish, French, Hindi, Punjabi, taught over 500 kids with one other person
  3. Lab Intern Interned at a Stanford lab for one summer, completed a poster presentation and will be mentioned in a couple papers/posters in the future
  4. Bio Club President this is padding, but have kinda been part of Bio club at my school and am now a president
  5. Volunteer work Have volunteered at several places, but primarily 2 hospitals with roughly 300 hrs combined
  6. Peer Tutoring padding once again, tutor kids at my school in spanish, math, and English
  7. CSF/NHS again, not anything that special
  8. Girls Who Code was part of a girls who club club where we learned all the basics of coding and I completed my own robot as a final project

other than that I have no other major item

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I am assuming you are applying for computer science or biology and that you are a girl.

Chances:
Stats: Fantastic job on the GPA, SAT, and subject scores. (hopefully math went well)
ECs: I am going to be honest with you. I don’t see anything too out of the ordinary and it looks fairly average. Nothing really screams “I AM A STEM GEEK” which is what Stanford is looking for if you apply for a STEM major
Awards/Honors: I don’t see anything listed?

Overall: I think you are asian based on the Bollywood Dance EC but I may be wrong. Your overall chances are really low to be frank. With no spike in any particular subject and no significant awards or ECs that link to your intended major, it will be hard for you to get in. My advice would be to still try since sometimes it can be based on luck but I would also start planning for other schools. Possible recommendations would include GTech, Purdue, UCs, etc.

Good luck!

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You have strong test scores (I would send both act and sat), and decent ECs. What is your unweighted GPA?