Stanford REA, yay or nay?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Objective:

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.97
Weighted GPA: 4.4
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): ~13/475 or top 2%

SAT I (breakdown): ok, its sucks, 2040 (680 all) retaking Nov
SAT II: – Not taking
ACT: Took Oct. Superscore on redbook practices was 34

AP (place score in parenthesis): Will have taken 11 APs by end of senior year. Freshman: Biology (3, def not sending) Sophomore: World (4) Physics B (2 oops) Junior: US History (5), Eng. Lang (4), Chinese (5), Calc AB (5)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Com Sci, AP Gov, AP Comparative, AP Calc BC, AP Lit, Chamber Orchestra, PE.

Subjective:

Extracurriculars: Violin 10+ years, 4 years of Chamber Orchestra (principal player), Orchestra leadership team, District honor orchestra 3x, Solo & Ensemble (1st violin), Tennis 2 years, Piano 7 years, aced 2 classes in local cc, played violin for retirement homes, summer swim, HOSA, Key Club 2 years, Red Cross 2 years
Fluent in Chinese and English. Came over half way through 5th grade with barely just the ABCs. Though I guess many people are the same.

Job/Work Experience: Interned at a high-tech chemical wafer manufacturing company this spring, committed over 90 hours. Learned a variety of work management techniques and ethics. Babysitting count?

Volunteer/Community service: 100+hrs. from Key Club. Red Cross. NHS. Chinese Mandarin Camp. I have been put on hold for hospital volunteering until my schedule opens up in late Oct.
Also starting volunteering at hospital (my application was put on hold due to tennis)

Essays: Started, but far from finished.
Teacher Recommendation: From AP US and Lang teachers. All had really good things to say (top student in US, and lang teacher exaggerated a lot)

Counselor Rec: Talked to her a few times, not super close, but should be decent.

Additional Rec: From intern mentor. A bit generic. Not sending

Other
Applying for Financial Aid?: Yes! This is very important. Low income
Intended Major: Biology related, depending on school.
State (if domestic applicant): WA

Also, I am technically a legacy since my dad did his post-doc research at Stanford.

Should I REA stanford, even though I know that there’s like a 99.999% chance I’ll get rejected anyways?

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You are certainly competitive. If that is where you want to go, then to it. If there is another school you like equally, apply to that one.

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A little confused about how 13/475 is top 2%?

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Wait, the deadline is like 3 days away.
Can you finish the essays/polish them by then?

Stanford I think doesn’t look at November SAT test scores, the deadline for them is October and a 2040 unfortunately is a bit too low for Stanford. ACT obviously is a gamble as well, as you can’t be sure that you’re going to get a 34. You basically need a 34+ to be competitive for REA Stanford as the applicant pool is just so competitive. Anything less than that will get you buried among the hundreds if not thousands of applicant with tippy-top scores in the early round.

Based on the essays and your test scores, I would say nay for Stanford REA.

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@rdeng2614 Yeah all of what you said makes sense.