What are my chances at Stanford?

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>I really want to go to Stanford, its my first choice, just wondering what everyone thinks my chances are
I'm a Junior currently</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
*AP Calc AB
*Chemistry
*PE 10
*Spanish 2
*AP Euro
*Intensive English 10</p>

<p>Junior Year
*AP Calc BC
*AP Chem
*APUSH
*Honors English
*Spanish 3
*Art</p>

<p>Unweighted gpa: 4.0
1st in class
SAT Scores: 2100</p>

<p>ECs: 10 years competitive club swimming, surfing, mock trial, JSA, summer jobs
and this year I won the county science fair and am going to ISEF!!! (so excited)</p>

2

<p>Stanford accepts around 7%, so probably somewhere around there. I don’t see any spectacular EC’s or major area of focus.</p>

<p>Best of luck.</p>

3

<p>SAT is pretty low</p>

4

<p>Bump up SAT to 2200+, work on your ECs. (Show your passion! Do something that shows your skills, knowledge and interests! Be unique! Bonus points if your awesome EC is also major related. Also, try getting leadership roles @ school/in your community. Any school swimming? What level of swimming? JO’s, Far Westerns, Sectionals? Nationals? Times?) Your classes could be more challenging, but if you have taken all/most of the APs/Honors at your school they will take that into account. As a junior you can’t change this, so focus on SATs and the aforementioned ECs, and then we’ll talk about Stanford.</p>

5

<p>For my school, I will have taken every AP offered (except Art History)
Also, a better list of ECs
-4 years varsity high school swimming
-7 years junior life guard + the last year as a youth aide (sort of training to be a state lifeguard and works at junior guard program, a very competitive program)
-3 years mock trial (captain senior year, defense attorney)
-JSA member</p>

6

<p>Also, on my club team I swim senior competitive which is very intense and a huge commitment.</p>

7

<p>The ECs are not Stanford level and SAT needs a 200 point boost to be in the unending unless you can be recruited for swimming.</p>

8

<p>Yep, basically what Waverly said. If you can’t improve academically, work on having world class ECs, or at least really unique. Or get recruited, but as a fellow Senior level club swimmer, we all know that is unlikely and you would probably have been in touch already with the Stanford coach. Someone on my team was in touch with the coach but didn’t get recruited. He still got in SCEA however, he was pretty exceptional even without being recruited.</p>

9

<p>The summer program is really unique, as is my Isef project, I go to a public school that doesn’t do the science fair so it was a big deal I beat a lot of people from elite prep schools, and I agree, definitely not getting recruited for swimming</p>

10

<p>SAT is way too low. Make sure you retake, b/c adcoms will think your school has rampant grade inflation. </p>

<p>Show focus with your ECs. Unless you place at Intel, they’re not spectacular at all.</p>

11

<p>Yep. Unless you place Semifinalist or Finalist at Intel, it doesn’t mean much. If you bump that SAT to 2200+ (probably need a 2300+ however, 2200 will at least get you that much more consideration), and place SF or Finalist at the Intel Science competition, you are in. But considering how competitive the comp is, SF and Finalist positions are highly coveted and it is unlikely you will place. May I ask what your project is?</p>

12

<p>My project is in animal sciences- I studied gall wasps and how and why they jump. To the best of my knowledge this has never been studied before. I then used the mechanism by which the halls jump to design a mars rover which moves without any external million parts and could get 17 million mpg.</p>

<p>Also regarding sat scores I took it once at beginning of junior year, never studied or looked at test prep. I can’t afford to take a class but I’ll look at a test prep book before itak it again, it’s just hard cuz my project takes up do much of my time</p>

13

<p>I also have COSMOS as an 8th grader, Girls in Engineering, and other summer programs,</p>

<p>More responses anyone?</p>

14

<p>Well…I say you have a good shot!
With a school like Stanford not even a 4.9gpa, 2400 SAT, multiple EC student can say he has a good shot.
Anything could happen.
Best of luck.</p>

15

<p>Hmmm… as it stands right now, your best hopes are resting on the Intel competition (hope for Semifinalist or above) and bumping your SAT at least 100 points; if you can do both I would say you have a decent chance. But as anyone on CC will tell you, high level college admissions are hit and miss, so you are just as likely to be rejected. If you accomplish those tasks, I would say you would have an above average chance.</p>

16

<p>Yeah I hope to do well, especially because my project is pretty unique for being in animal sciences. More replies?</p>

17

<p>Is the poster saying she is heading to Pittsburgh (ISEF)? If so, she is already labeled a “finalist.” I believe that once in Pittsburgh, additional awards can be won (including $75,000). So, is getting to Pittsburgh enough to distinguish this application.</p>

18

<p>Don’t sacrifice SAT scores for projects. It won’t help your admissions case.</p>

19

<p>Yes I am going to pittsburg. And I think my project is more important than my sat scores</p>

20

<p>There will be many more people applying with perfect SAT scores than with ISEF finalist projects, Im taking the SAT again anyways. I’ll study a bit this time, but I only missed 4 math questions all in different sections do there’s not much I can do</p>