Stanford....

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I've been researching schools for quite some time now, and though I've known for years now that I want to eventually go on to law school, I am more or less against any "pre-law" type program (Cornell's ILR program is more suited to my tastes). I plan on probably majoring in Business Management and/or Administration and have a strong interest in Philosophy as well.</p>

<p>Anyway, my stats are:</p>

<p>SAT: 2100
ACT: pending
SAT-II: pending
GPA: 3.9, and have taken the most demanding courses available to me (5 AP's on my schedule for next year, 1 Syracuse University course and 1 SUNY C.W. Post College Course)
i am white, although i am a second-generation israeli, and am a citizen of both the US and Israel (speak fluent hebrew)</p>

<p>a lot of more or less worthless clubs (i.e.: forced to take marching band as a club while in band, quite playing lacrosse after 3 years), however, high up position in my school's model UN club, won an outstanding delegate award at the University of Chicago's annual MUN session.</p>

<p>i play multiple instruments and recieved a perfect score on the highest level (6) at NYSSMA (actually, that was in 8th grade too haha), which is New York's musical achievement testing.</p>

<p>i have been selected for prestige in painting (although this was early in high school).</p>

<p>i have worked for all of high school at two different jobs, at least 10 hours a week.</p>

<p>i have interned for the presiding officer of the local legislator for the past year. (>50 yrs total)</p>

<p>i will have 2 or 3 quite good reccomendations from 2 or 3 teachers that know me quite well, as well as an additional reccomendation from the presiding officer of my county legislator.</p>

<p>i am a member of the national honor society as well as the national spanish honor society.</p>

<p>Essentially, Stanford is the school I want to go to. I love the campus, I love the school, I love the area, I love the state, I love the people. I have visited and was in awe the entire time. I have recently established a "relationship" with a professor at the school through e-mail (nothing significant--merely e-mail chatter). I plan on applying through their Single-Choice Early Action program, and I of course plan on applying to other additional schools but I'm quite unsure as to what my chances are. Of course, I know that schools such as Stanford and Brown and Cal and UCLA have been quite sporadic in their acceptances, and it's hard to tell how one will do over the other. But if you could give me an idea of how I would do, I would truly appreciate it.</p>

<p>Thanks for your time.</p>

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<p>your ecs are really weak, to be honest. the rest, including academics and intangibles are great!! I say you have a pretty decent chance at Stanford. If you want help regarding Ecs, just PM me and i can provide you with opportunities :)</p>

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<p>I think their ECs are ok. Not "really weak." Not WOW amazing but I certainly wouldn't go so far as to call them "rally weak."</p>

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<p>My friend got a perfect score at NYSSMA on a level six and he's a freshman, while I got a 98, which isn't something to be compaining about, I know, but i'm a JUNIOR and I've been trying to get a perfect score since the beginning of high school, so basically, that's a big accomplishment and if I were stanford I would totally accept on that grounds alone, good luck...</p>

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<p>jmarsh, don't worry, although I got a 100, it's really because drum set pieces are far more subjective than other instruments, as it does not need to be exact to the paper to be perfect. While it's by no means easy, and I practiced my ass off (not gonna lie), there are many places where there is nothing written but a symbol pretty much representing "do whatever you want here," or "fills", and seeing as chances are the judge will not be a professional drummer, it is harder for them to score you negatively than if it were a judge scoring a piece for say, one playing a woodwind instrument, as all the notes are organized in the same way for nearly all instruments but the drums.</p>

<p>also: I did far worse on my SAT's than expected, and should and will go up by at least 100 points, and hopefully 200 points in October.</p>

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<p>hopefully more people can view and respond...thanks for your time.</p>

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<p>Anybody? At all?</p>

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<p>RC0813, check my PM :)</p>

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<p>I just got it thanks. I'll respond asap!</p>