Stanford EA? CHANCE ME PLEASE

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi,
I'm a junior and attend a good public school in the San Jose (CA) area.</p>

<p>SAT I:</p>

<p>CR 710
WR 760
M 800
total: 2270</p>

<p>if you superscore, then it's:</p>

<p>CR 710
WR 780
M 800
total: 2290</p>

<p>SAT II:</p>

<p>Math IIC 790
Bio 750</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 (unweighted); 4.7 (weighted )</p>

<p>APs and Honors:</p>

<p>Chemistry Honors (10)
Precalculus honors (10)
AP Lang/ Comp. (11)
AP Calc B/C (11)
AP Bio (11)
Spanish 4 H (11)
AP Lit (12)
AP Gov/econ (12)
AP Spanish (12)
AP Statistics (12)</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:</p>

<p>Synopsis Science Fair (10,11,12)
Kaiser Permanente Volunteering (3 hours a week)
Speech and Debate (9-12)
Hindustani Classical Music- vocal (11 years)</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>Synopsis Science Fair 1st place winner (grade 10)
California State Science Fair 4th place winner (grade 10)
CAPCAA (some science company) $1000 Bond 1st place winner
Palo Alto Association of Women in Science - Honorable Mention (grade 10)
Synopsis Science Fair- Honorable mention winner (grade 11)
OSAAT (music competition)- 2nd place (10)
Intel Promising Young Scientist Award (11)
COSMOS Scholarship through Intel (11)
Student Observer for International Science and Engineering Fair (11)</p>

<p>Clubs/ Officer positions:</p>

<p>Red Cross Club
- treasurer (11)
- VP (12)</p>

<p>Speech and Debate
- Captain (12)</p>

<p>Pre med Club
-treasurer (10)
- VP (11)
- president (12)</p>

<p>Summer/ Jobs:</p>

<p>COSMOS (summer research program) Biomedical Sciences (grade 11)
Kumon Tutor (10,11)</p>

<p>I'm thinking of going into Pre med/ Biomedical Sciences
please chance me!</p>

<p>I'll greatly appreciate it!</p>

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<p>Nice2 see some fellow san jose kids on here.
U have a decent shot at stanford, and the fact that youre in the same city is a bonus for your app
gl</p>

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<p>No, it’s not a bonus to be local. Locally, they have a lot of staff kids and legacies to accommodate and they recruit many kids from EPA and local athletes. They are also trying to lower their overall number from CA.</p>

<p>I think being a women in science is a plus. If you’re Asian, it’s less unusual though.</p>

<p>The 710CR is the big issue I see. Stanford wants, and gets it all from unhooked candidates, and that score is a key one and well below median. I would work to bring that up. You don’t mention where you rank which is also very important whether your school officially ranks or not.</p>

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<p>You have good chances. Can you PM me what school, because I go to a public school in san jose as well. Let me guess though, is it Evergreen?</p>

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<p>you have awesome chances! Impressive application! </p>

<p>Chance me?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/774495-chance-me-these-schools-syracuse-fordham-gwu-etc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/774495-chance-me-these-schools-syracuse-fordham-gwu-etc.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>is it true that stanford only accepts legacy students if they apply EA?
so thats why its harder to get in EA if you dont have legacy…?</p>

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<p>It is true that EA for a non-hook is MUCH harder than RD. On the other hand, if a student is hooked and has legacy, they have a better chance because EA is when all the legacies apply.</p>

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<p>I think that everyone is confused. It’s not that EA is harder, it’s that EA is not easier as the percent of accepted suggests because it’s the round when they accept the vast majority of recruited athletes (these students skew the number far more than any other group) and other “friends” of the college: legacies, staff kids, development. </p>

<p>The bottom line is those categories comprise about 40% of the class and have a much better chance than the unhooked EA or RD.</p>

<p>When you back them out, there’s about a 4% chance for an unhooked applicant to get in. Then parse the numbers even more closely–they are trying to lower the number from CA, so an unhooked kid from CA or any other well represented place has less than a 4% as they build a class with kids from 50 states and many countries.</p>

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<p>So when I read posts like the above, I wonder what they’re basing it on. Even applicants with well above 75th percentile stats in everything do not have a good chance without a hook, Factually.</p>

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<p>I based my Stanford EA knowledge off some other posts by CCers. There was a CA resident who posted his chances to Stanford EA and everyone said that he has no chance because that’s when all legacies apply. So that is where I am basing my information on.</p>

<p>As for this guys chances, I do think he has a strong shot. </p>

<p>Last year we’ve had a student with a 4.00, a couple ap’s all 5’s, a 2210, he was poor, and asian (typical)? He got into stanford and harvard. I don’t see why this application who has a 2270, solid gpa, and ranked 1 does not have a strong shot.</p>

<p>I mean the statistics are there, but that doesn’t mean he have a good chance.</p>

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<p>Basically, I wanted to know if my chances are better if I apply EA or RD. I’m still not sure…</p>

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<p>Assessing chances properly means knowing a lot more than what random posters on CC say and what happened to a kid at your high school. Read the common data sets and know what the median stats are. That will give you a base.</p>

<p>As for when to apply, I would apply RD and retake the SAT for a minimum mid 700s CR. Stanford rejects most EA candidates they don’t accept, so you then wouldn’t have a chance to raise the score as a deferred candidate.</p>