stanford ea chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Ah, well, like everyone else I applied to Stanford EA. I've heard the chances of getting in this year are ridiculously low, and I saw some people with RIDICULOUS stats (research with a Stanford professor, give me a break, why do you even bother posting, to depress ppl?), so I'm not exactly expecting to get it, but I'd appreciate any input. </p>

<p>South Asian Male living in Southern MD
GPA (unweighted): 4.00
GPA (weighted): 4.50
SAT: Verbal-800 Math-710
Rank: 1 of 398
SAT II's: Writing- 740, US Hist- 800, Math IIC-790
AP's- US Hist (5), Lang (5), World Hist(5), Comp Sci (5), Bio (5), Chem, Lit, Calc, Govt, French, Euro Hist </p>

<p>EC's:
Key Club (Club Director, Club VP, District Lieutenant Governor, District Governor)
Mock Trial (Captain)
Newspaper (Editor-in-Chief, Co-Editor-in-Chief)
Yoga (Certified Instructor)
Tabla-Indian Drums
Karate (3rd Degree blackbelt)
NHS, Student Government (Senator), Math Team, It's Academic </p>

<p>I'm also applying to Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, UMD-College Park, Duke, Swarthmore, UPenn, Columbia, Yale, Williams and UChicago, so let me know what you think </p>

<p>Thanks a bunch</p>

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<p>you have great AP scores. you are one of a small number of students in the whole country to receive five 5's on AP's. You have to be passionate about something other than school and academics, however. Your school must not be that competative since you are ranked number 1 with only a 4.5 weighted gpa. I have a 4.46 and my rank is 22. you have a shot though</p>

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<p>He has a 4.00 unweighted GPA...you really can't get better than that</p>

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<p>Gosh, 22nd with a gpa of 4.46? That's insane! Well, I've taken the toughest courseload possible in my school, with 1 AP soph yr, 4 junior yr and 6 this yr. Maybe your school weights differently? We get 4.5 for honors courses and 5.0 for AP's. Plus, the 4.5 is through the end of junior yr so it doesn't count the 5.0 that I have so far this year.
Also, I'd like to say I am passionate about ec's, especially Key Club. I am the elected representative of 13,000 key clubbers, so it takes up a significant amount of my time.
Anyways, this post has been buried in pg 3 after 12 hrs (this website is crazy!), so does anyone else have any takes?</p>

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<p>Yeah, and YOU'RE not depressing people? hahaha</p>

<p>okie, well, your stats are really great. I don't think many can beat that. Stanford is a little strange sometimes, so just spend all your time writing your essays and perfecting it. Some people can have great stats, pride themselves too much on those, and do not work on their essays...they're screwed! </p>

<p>A unique, personalized essay that shows who you are will play a major effect on your acceptance. </p>

<p>Good-luck!</p>

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<p>Yeah, how are you not depressing? Anyways, it depends on whether stanfie will go with more rejections or defferrals this year; they typically reject, and I don't think you'll get accepted ea, it could easily go defer or reject</p>

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<p>Man, I wonder what kinda maniacs these schools take b/c it sure ain't going to be me. </p>

<p>It's pretty hard to say. There are people who get into it without really deserving to go. They know all the tricks of the trade to getting into college, but do not know how to survive during college. I'm not really sure...hahaha, I'm hoping to be one of those random people who get in. If not, oh well.</p>

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There are people who get into it without really deserving to go. They know all the tricks of the trade to getting into college, but do not know how to survive during college

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<p>How arrogant of you.</p>

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<p>why was that arrogant?</p>

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<p>To naturally assume someone doesn't deserve to go to Stanford is quite arrogant. You just assume you are an authority on the subject and that all people who don't fit your particular mold are unqualified liars.</p>

<p>I might as well randomly say all women are unfit to be human beings because I am a man and all only men can truly be dignified human beings.</p>

<p>Perhaps arrogant wasn't the right word. I meant to say: Presumptuous.</p>

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<p>okay, arrogant confused me, I would agree it was presumptuous</p>

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<p>iono...maybe not arrogant. It is a little presumptuous. </p>

<p>It's just a fact of life. You know it. I know it: There are people who spend their whole life preparing and buffing up their resumes. Of course they are amazing on paper, but you gotta really wonder how people can get A's on everything, score high, and are president of 15 clubs, yet still have time to rid the world of AIDs while helping his/her cancered afflicted, physically disabled brother.</p>

<p>Nah, I'm not an authority of anything. As I said before, I don't really know. What I'm trying to get at is some people that make it in do not necessarily have better stats than people that get rejected. It's a little of luck you know? </p>

<p>It's so many factors added together! I hate the college admission process!</p>

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get A's on everything, score high, and are president of 15 clubs, yet still have time to rid the world of AIDs while helping his/her cancered afflicted, physically disabled brother

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<p>If someone can do all this, why shouldn't they be accepted to a top notch school? Why is what they're doing wrong? How is this unfair to other kids? Why would this person be unable to handle college? Why would any school pick a kid with only mediocre stats and ECs over this person?</p>

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<p>I think you have a good chance for Stanford. The yoga and karate certainly makes u stand out. Your academics are really good too. I chickened out from applying there cause I didn't want to take the math 2c. I'm terrible at math! I was down at stanford this summer and it's really great there. Good Luck!</p>

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<p>Well...I'm not saying that there is a person that can do all that. I'm saying that person is overloading himself/herself. For example, if they had 3 hours of free time, and dedicated those 3 hours to 15 clubs as opposed to 3 hours of free time dedicated to 1/2 clubs, and let other people lead the other clubs. Wouldn't it be better for them, being able to dedicate themselves to one thing and excelling? We're in an age of the expertise, not the age of the renaissance man. There is simply too much to do to be able to do it all. It just seems unreasonable that someone can do it, but of course, on paper when they list all those down, who'll know that they didn't dedicate that much time to those things? I'm not saying ALL people do this. I guess I'm speaking from personal experience about someone at my school, and kinda generalizing.</p>

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<p>bumpalooza (any replies about my chances would be helpful, as much as I do enjoy discourse about everything else)</p>

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<p>I think she's talking about someone at our school. Lol. Yah, I know why she says all that. What she really means is that.. well there's someone at our school.. who is ranked pretty high.. really close to us, but we've always outshone her in everything. dreampryncezz and i have always been the top of the class, and we've dedicated to the things we love, while she.. well cheats her way up and uses people to get where she is, and has joined every club, pretended to be so hardworking to get a billion officer positions. So basically, Dreampryncezz and I, are upset that she will probably have a better looking application than we do. She will have had a few more officer positions and her rank, which is not bad, will make her look a lot better than we do. College will not see her true self but a paper which she uses to disguise herself. Right Nga? hehehe</p>

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<p>I got in...thanx guys, even if not all of you commented on my chances :p</p>