<p>hello, i'm currently about to enter junior year next week so i'll be in the class of 2015.
now stanford has always been in my eyes, but has a daunting air around it. last year, only one graduate made it into stanford. they had 5's on all of their a.p tests, A's basically on all of their report cards and heavily involved on and off of campus and consequently was valedictorian.</p>
<p>seeing this was rather discouraging considering my overall high school gpa is 3.6 or something along those lines and i've taken all honors classes but i dropped my only ap class last year. i've been involved in sports, and was in csf sophomore year and this year i will be part of a leadership program, a sports team, national honor society, will apply for csf again this year, and perhaps join in on the fall play, and do mock trial.
aside from that i'm heavily involved in church outside of school, but my gpa really concerns me.
this year i'm taking ap us history and english, spanish 3, regular chemistry and math analysis, and ceramics. at this point i don't know if even getting straight A's will give me a chance at stanford. i'm interested in law, epidemiology, or psychology. can someone please give me a lot of tips and pointers as well as evaluating my chances at getting in please?
thank you very much.</p>
<p>High reach. Psat score? Hooks?</p>
<p>Too early for a chance? Chances are useless anyways. Take thhe SAT</p>
<p>I’d also appreciate it if students who got in could give me insight on how they did it, etc. Thank you! (: Perhaps that should have been the title of this thread, how to get in, rather than chances.</p>
<p>ClassOf2015HS: My Psat scores were 60 in critical reading, 44 in mathematics (unfortunately ), and 50 in writing skills. Math has always been my weakest subject.</p>
<p>muhammad9211: True, I think the question I was trying to get at was perhaps how to get in rather than chances. A bit frightened for the SAT in all honesty.</p>
<p>“I’d also appreciate it if students who got in could give me insight on how they did it, etc. Thank you! (: Perhaps that should have been the title of this thread, how to get in, rather than chances.”</p>
<p>“I think the question I was trying to get at was perhaps how to get in rather than chances.”</p>
<p>It doesn’t work this way. There’s no formula for admission, and there’s literally nothing that in and of itself will get you in. Every admitted student is different, so it’d be fruitless to ask people what got them in. Their strengths and circumstances aren’t yours.</p>
<p>Plus, more than a little luck underlies every acceptance. Consider this: last year, 38,828 people applied to Stanford. 80% of these applicants were qualified to do the work at Stanford. But Stanford didn’t have room for 80% of them. It had room for 5.7% of them. How do you narrow those 80% of qualified applicants down to the 5.7% who are admitted? Tearing essays and recs apart, evaluating applicants’ sincerity, considering what Stanford needs in a particular year, and plain old picking and choosing. </p>
<p>Read this article:
[Applying</a> Sideways | MIT Admissions](<a href=“http://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/applying_sideways]Applying”>Applying Sideways | MIT Admissions)</p>
<p>It’ll give you insight into the admission process at elite schools.</p>
<p>“My Psat scores were 60 in critical reading, 44 in mathematics (unfortunately ), and 50 in writing skills. Math has always been my weakest subject.”</p>
<p>I’m sorry to tell you that these test scores simply won’t cut it. I don’t think studying will even raise them to levels that will be competitive for Stanford. </p>
<p>I’d advise you to forget about Stanford and instead find schools that are more within your reach.</p>
<p>@flipstermatic, chalky’s been pretty useful for me too. i’m sure op could talk to a few of the stanford students on there and better gauge his chances.</p>