<p>Hi, this is my first post! My daughter is an URM (African American Female) who has applied SCEA Stanford. Please evaluate her chances! Thanks!</p>
<p>SAT: 790 Math; 680 Verbal (subtotal 1470); writing 750; total 2220
SAT subject: 720 Englist Lit; 640 Math 2C (retaking Math 2c tomorrow 12/3)
ACT: 31
GPA: ~4.5 weighted; 3.7 unweighted (very competetive high school in midwest; top 9% of class); less than 1% African American in school
AP/IB scores range from 1 (AP US History sophomore year-1st time offered) to 4 on Eng Lit and Calc ap (Calc BC-3)
Most rigorous schedule available: All Pre IB/AP and IB/AP courses
Basketball, soccer and track (club and school all four years; state ranked in track)
Interested in Aerospace (being astronaunt)
Link leader and commisionner/officer
Community Service-Active Church youth group- leader and missions trips to South Africa/Vancouver/Inidian Reservations;mentoring program for kids
City Leadership Council Participant/Graduate of Program
Global Youth Leadership Conference (DC/NY)
Teacher/Counselor Recs should be pretty good
Good writer-essays expected to be pretty good
National Merit Commended
National Achievement Semi-Finalist (expected to be Finalist)</p>
<p>Our high school's experience with Stanford was that there are urm's and then there are URM's. URM's: minority kids from single parent family, low socio-economic strata, overcoming adversity issues; urm: minority kids from intact families and middle class backgrounds. Admit rate was much higher for URMs than for urm's. urm's seemed to be lumped in more with the non-minority applicants. </p>
<p>Taking URM status out of the picture, your D seems to have as good a chance (or as low a chance) as many of the SCEA pool to hear good news in December.</p>
<p>daddec - Clearly your daughter has an outstanding profile and you should be very proud. Clearly she has what Stanford is seeking, but it all depends on all those things we can't know or control about what they need in this year's class. Fingers crossed for you. Let us know how this one works out and remember, if by some chance it doesn't, there will be many other wonderful options for a student such as your D. (Stanford alum here)</p>
<p>Looks very good to me. Your daughter is competitive on her achievements alone, but being URM will help. My daughter is a senior at Stanford this year (loves it, by the way). Many students accepted to Stanford from our high school over the past few years have been African American. They are outstanding students (like yours) but seem to have had an advantage in admissions because of URM. (As an aside, my daughter sings with the Stanford Gospel Choir and has become friends with quite a few African American students on campus- it's a tight-knit community, but not clique-ish- and they all seem happy with their experience. Good luck!</p>
<p>Your daughter's chances are very, very strong, you must be so proud. Make sure to have a couple of wonderful safety schools as a back up and don't get emotionally too attached to Stanford since admission seems almost like a lottery sometimes --- even for kids with 1600s. Stanford seems to really like kids who compete and win in prominent regional and national events such as state science fairs. The 680 verbal may also be a slight drawback since many of their applicants have stronger verbal scores. My D is also applying to Stanford and it is her dream school, but I have been trying to distract her with tales of how wonderful other schools are. She has a 710 M 690 V 760 Wr 780 Math2c 740 Physics and a 4.0 and a 34 ACT, and she is National Merit Commended. Her stats are also very strong, but just about everyone who applies has stats this strong or much stronger, with national prizes to boot, etc.<br>
We need to have great attitudes, think positively and hope for the best. I never hurts to apply when you are in "the range." I hope my D meets yours at Stanford next year! Good luck and all the best!</p>