Stanford chances?

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<p>Did this for Yale, and now I'm doing this for my other first choice. Stanford's been with me since I was little; my dad was Southeast Asia/Pacific coordinator for the WHO and Director of Public Health in the Phlippines, and would always go to Stanford for conferences when I was a kid (and take me along with him). Now that I live in the US, I've gone to Stanford just to jog around campus almost every year; it's really refreshing and the people and campus are amazing.</p>

<p>ACADEMICS
Medical magnet high school, ranked 40-some on newsweek. Pretty competitive.
SAT: 2170
ACT: 34
GPA: 96.9/100 (setbacks: grandfather's funeral, grandma's surgery and chemo follow up, all in the Philippines. Left school for a total of 4 weeks and had little time to make up work junior year)
Rank: 8/165 (setback: only kid in school taking Calculus II; it's not even offered on campus. I go to a medical magnet and I have to go to our district's engineering magnet to take that class. Ridiculously unforgiving teacher. I have a C 1st quarter senior year)
AP 5/5/5/4/3
Took a Microcomputer Applications and Calculus I course at the University of Texas Pan-American</p>

<p>DEMOGRAPHICS
Ethnicity: Filipino (does it matter what kind of asian?)
Region: South Texas, Rio Grande Valley. Not the richest part of the US. A skip away from the border.
Status: Perm. Resident, lived in US for 5.5 years total. Moved from philippines when i was in 7th grade
Languages: English, Spanish, Filipino, Ibanag</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
Student Council; Treasurer Jr. Year; Vice-President Sr. Year
KRGV-TV Masterminds (college-bowl type competition; 1st runner up, team captain)
Health Occupations Students of America (Advanced to Nationals)
National Honor Society; Member Jr. Sr. year (no faculty council my first two years; lazy principal)
National Technical Honor Society; Member Soph/Jr. Year. President Sr. Year
Senior Class Treasurer; former Sophomore class Vice-President
Founder: Med High AP Tutorial Initiative
VIVA National Peer Tutor; soph, jr. sr. year
University Interscholastic League; State 6th place overall science (freshman year) District 1st place science, persuasive speaking, social studies (freshman year), State 2nd place biology (Junior year)
Newman Institute; Diocese of Brownsville - World Youth Day coordinator and youth correspondent
Instituto Cervantes Manila; Auxiliary tutor jr, sr year
Pianist; working on Liszt's La Campanella; finished Beethoven's Appasionata 3rd movt
Organist, San Cristobal Magallanes Parish</p>

<p>MISCELLANEA
AP Scholar with Distinction
Assisted (not observed, assisted) in Ovarian Mass Resection (video and picture documentation and write-up included) University of Sto. Tomas, Manila.
Couples for Christ Gawad Kalinga charity program; built houses in Philipine landfills and drove through slums giving food while parents gave medical services. annualy since 7th grade
Rice University/Baylor College of Medicine DocPrep participant
MD ANderson Cancer Research Center Symposium invitee and participant</p>

<p>AP's
AP Calculus BC (only one in high school taking it)
AP Physics B
AP Macro
AP Gov't
AP English Lang
AP English Lit
AP World Hist
AP US Hist
AP Biology
AP Chem</p>

<p>Stanford was somewhere I kept saying to myself I would go and study in since I was five, and it kills me that it's finally time to put myself on their table.</p>

<p>If there's anything else you guys need to know, hit me up</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>I know i should be “amazed” at your stats. but, not sure how to read these. For instance, MD Anderson is one of the top cancer research centers in the country. People come from all over the world for their assistance. How can you, a HS student, be an invitee and participant? I mean, how did you participate in their Symposium? Sounds too good to be true.</p>

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<p>No need to mention the “setbacks.” Your GPA and rank are fine, it just sounds like you’re making excuses.</p>

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<p>@lima</p>

<p>See portion of the OP’s postings, there is a thing called networking that does wonders, and it appears the OP’s Dad is in a position to assist in coordinating, so though you may have your doubts, its still plausible. I’m sure OP would have elaborated in essays the extent of his/her participation.</p>

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<p>Dah…I know about networking. But, a HS student a participant in a Symposium? Assisted in Ovarian Mass Resection? I mean, why go to college, much less med-school? And why “chances?”</p>

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<p><i mean,=“” why=“” go=“” to=“” college,=“” much=“” less=“” med-school?=“” and=“” “chances?”=“”></i></p><i mean,=“” why=“” go=“” to=“” college,=“” much=“” less=“” med-school?=“” and=“” “chances?”=“”>

<p>Certification ;)</p>
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<p>ok…clear things up haha</p>

<p>the MD Anderson symposium is a partnership that Baylor College of Medicine has with our district and presumably a few others in South Texas; we get a tour of several laboratories and the Texas Medical Center and are given assignments, write-ups and are given professors to shadow (my group shadowed someone at the Virginia Harris Research Center who was working on melanoma in fish, or something). It ends in a presentation to the school board, who, with BCM, give us certificates of participation
the top 10 percent of our incoming junior class got to go, just as the top ten percent of our incoming senior class gets to go to DocPrep</p>

<p>My dad’s best friend is the head of Gynecological Oncology at the University of Sto. Tomas in Manila, so learninginprog’s right about my dad (and mom) being able to pull some strings, especially since it was a charity surgery in a private hospital in the philippines (familiar, stringent US operating room protocol is not necessarily entirely enforced).</p>

<p>limabeans, i apologize. i think i may have skewed ur perspective a little; “Symposium” was the official word the District Board used in its documents and certificates, so I felt i was in the right in using that word. But i see that it can understandably cause this kind of confusion. I asked for my chances because I wanted to get candid perspectives on my app stats from people i didn’t know personally (mimicking, to some extent, the unfamiliarity of the adcom). lol learninginprog’s right again, since my essays would probably ease the burden of some of those questions.</p>

<p>hahah and i don’t think my stats are all taht great, i’m not like those kids that get straight 800’s on the SAT subscores and complain about getting a 780 and insist on retaking the test, or those kids who are neck to neck for rank 1 and 2 and have taken 15 AP’s and go heavy on the AIME or USABO/USAMO. THOSE kids amaze (and scare) me haha.</p>

<p>that being said…chances? haha</p>

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<p>lol having doctor parents is like having royal parents; you’re compelled to follow in their footsteps, and they’ll do whatever it takes to make sure you do haha</p>

<p>well at least that applies to some of my friends and I</p>

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<p>Thanks for the clarification Jonguz. As for chances, I’m nowhere qualified, you however look very competitive. I urge you to read through this thread if you havent already to see last year’s seniors.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/680278-official-stanford-university-rd-decisions-class-2013-a.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/680278-official-stanford-university-rd-decisions-class-2013-a.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Good Luck</p>

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<p>jonguz, thanks for filling me in. yes, you have had a nice opportunity to do something very professional that most US doctors would only get to do in their med-internship / residency. Your stats are good, and your chances are even better once you can explain what you’ve done. </p>

<p>I’d suggest you don’t sound too boastful about these opportunities because it could annoy the adcoms, like call it a Symposium, but explain what it really was so they don’t think you’re trying to say things just to impress.</p>

<p>PS: just said good-bye to my son’s GF, a freshman at Stanford. She also got accepted to Yale EA, Princeton, and Columbia.</p>

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<p>thanks learninginprog! I’m gnna spend tomorrow’s afterparty reading this thread instead of running around with the guys haha. i was gnna do SCEA for Stanford, but I procrastinated hard on my standardized testing reqs</p>

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<p>thanks limabeans!</p>

<p>yeah i often wondered why the district would publish that word, but it sounded nice so I used it in my app. i will take your advice, however, and tone it down with appropriate explanations since i worry that confusion would just make a bad adcom’s rep day even worse haha</p>

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<p>limabeans, i really wish i were in ur son’s gf’s spot right now. can’t wait for decision letters; the suspense is worse than…i dont even know what to compare it to</p>