<p>I sent in my application to Stanford, Yale, and Cornell (Arts and Sciences) as my three reaches. How do these stats look:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.72 (top 10%, but my public school doesn't give rank)
SAT I: 780 M, 710 V
SAT II: 800 IIC, 770 Writing, 730 Bio M</p>
<p>Extra-curriculars (#years in high school, #hours per week, #weeks per year)
Piano Lessons (level 6 piano and music theory certificate) (4, 7, 40)
Sunday School Teacher (leadership?) (4, 2, 27)
Varsity Ski Team (2,12,12)
Church Youth group (4, 4, 8)
Job at Grocery store (1, 12, 40)
Church Youth Orchestra (4, 1, 10)
JV Hockey (2, 5, 12)
In total, I have like 300 hours of community service</p>
<p>Awards:
National Merit Scholar Commendation
Nominated for Cum Laude
Honor Roll each semester
National French Test "Certificat d'Honneur"</p>
<p>Other stuff:
My essays were amazing to all three schools. Hopefully, that'll give me a bit more of a shot than my grades.
My recommendations will also be awesome. I'm pretty tight with with one teacher, and the other made me write this five page paper about how good I was, and then quoted that in the rec.
Also, Stanford doesn't even look at Freshmen year grades. So, for purposes of Stanford, my GPA is 3.79, which is like top 5% or 6%. My grades have gone up each year (3.56, 3.65, 3.81,) so hopefully that, along with my senior year grades (5 A's, 1 A-) will help me out.
I live in suburban Massachusetts, so that should help me (a bit) for Stanford, but could end up hurting me at Yale and Cornell.
One last thing is that I was suspended for 3 days for pushing in my freshman year. It wasn't a big deal, and nothing has happened as a result of the suspension, but my school is a jerk about this sort of thing. I've had to write this on all of my applications, which could hurt me. I downplayed it on the applications, though.</p>
<p>So, based on this information, do you think I can get into these schools? I'm hoping I can at least make my way into Cornell.</p>