Stanford?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Anyway, my stats are:</p>

<p>SAT: 2080 (CR: 640 M: 730 WS: 710 -- i expect this composite to go up at LEAST 100 points on the October test)
ACT: 35 (writing scores haven't been released yet for June)
SAT-II: pending, but I'm expecting 710-750 Lit and 740-780 IIc
GPA: 3.85, 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 hrs 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>come on, nobody?????</p>

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<p>78 views and not a single response? please?</p>

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<p>Like you said these schools are unpredictable. Doing SCEA will help you out. Stanfurd is difficult to get into. You should bring your scores up a little. You should really think about coming to Cal. Way better than Stanford. But i not, you should talk about the relationship with the prof from stanfurd in your app. They like people with passions, so emphasize a passion.</p>

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<p>i understand the obvious point of it being a coin-toss, but i got a 35, how much higher can i really go?</p>

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<p>what is is that you really care about (besides school)? If you have an excellent answer to this question, you will be accepted. If you have a good answer, you might be accepted. If you don't have an answer, you probably will not be accepted.</p>

<p>Your GPA & ACT more than gets you in the door, but you need to show them a bit more to be accepted.</p>

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<p>that makes sense. i'm definitely going to be spending an extensive period of time with the essays, and a friend of mine who will be an incoming freshman this fall explained to me that he flew out there 6 (yes SIX) times on his own merit with his own money and basically said "hi, i'm here from new york, i got deferred early action, can i please have an interview?" (they don't give off-campus interviews) and he kinda forced them to listen to him and understand his passion and his desire and his will.</p>