Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Male, Senior, Public High School [School rarely sends grads to top schools (kids who get into Stanford from my HS have average SAT of 2100)]

Academics:

GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.80
Class Rank: 1
Class Size: 248

Scores:
SAT: 2200
Math: 800
Critical Reading: 630
Writing: 770
ACT: 33 (breakdown Math: 34, Reading: 34, Science & English: 32)
SAT II Math Level 2 (IIC): 780
SAT II Biology: 750-800 (taking Nov.)

AP/H Classes Taken:
H English 1 & 2 (No Pre-AP offered for this class) ( Frosh & Soph.)
AP Environmental (Soph.)
AP Pshychology (Soph.)
H Pre-Calc (Soph.)
H Spanish IV (Soph.)
H US Hist (no AP) (Junior)
AP Computer Science A (not offered, online) (Junior)
AP English Language (Junior)
AP World History (not offered, online) (Junior)
AP Macroeconomics (not offered, online) (Junior)
AP Calculus AB (Junior)
AP Calculus BC (Junior)
AP Biology (Junior)
AP Physics C (not offered, online) (Senior)
AP Lit (Senior)
AP Stats (not offered, online) (Senior)
H Chem 2 (no APl) (Senior)
AP Microeconomics (not offered, online) (Senior)
AP US Gov (Senior)

Extracurriculars (major ones):

Leadership:
NHS President, Key Club Vice President, on school’s parliament (gov basically), founder of Math Club

Awards: Nordstrom Scholar, Senate & Assembly Certificate of Recognition, Valedictorian, bunches of HS All-State academic teams

Athletics: 3 time junior olympian Alpine Ski Racer (Non-school), Varsity XC, Varsity Track, Varsity Alpine Ski Racing

Volunteering: 200 hours at hospital, 60 NHS, 75 Key Club, 20 Boys and Girls Club (independent clothing drive project), volunteer race coach for 8-13 yr. olds.

Other Extracurriculars: Boys State, consistently held 2 jobs through all of HS, started small business (related to one of my sports), code in Java, Swift, and C++ (working on app to be released on apple store)

Essays will be awesome, thanks!

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ps I know it is virtually impossible to chance Stanford because most of their applicants are academically qualified to handle their work load, I just want to know If I am one of those academically qualified and extracurricularly students or not, and if I have a chance at all.

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Your test scores are rather low for Stanford. Any score you received for your APs? I consider a reach for you anyway.

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Are they low? Their 50th percentile SAT is 2210 and average ACT is 33 so it looks like I’m right in the middle?

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And I have 4’s and 5’s on all APs

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Your test scores are average - they won’t work against you, but nobody is accepted to Stanford because of test scores. Having test scores and mostly 4s and 5s on your AP exams puts you in the same bucket as about 20,000 qualified applicants. You’re academically qualified and your ECs look fine, but nothing immediately stands out either, so I’d say your odds are right around the acceptance rate.

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Disagree, His stats put him a bit above many other applicants. I’d say you have a 10-15% chance, perhaps a bit lower.

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Thanks guys! I guess it’l be all up to how good I can make those essays then

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