Hey, so I just wanted an honest opinion of what my chances at applying to Stanford and getting in as an REA would be. Here are the stats below:
ACT: 34 (composite score)
SAT: 2160 (superscored; reading: 630, math: 780, writing: 750) [I’ve taken the old SAT twice. Do you think I should take the new SAT once and have a total of three SAT scores + 1 ACT score or is that too much for Stanford?]
GPA: 4.05 (weighted; my school doesn’t do unweighted)
Class rank: My school does not do this either
Schedule (please note that my school does NOT offer honors)
Freshman yr: No free period
-Foundations of Modern World (required for 9th grade)
-PE
-Geometry
-Algebra 2
-Physics
-Spanish II
-English 9
-Wind Ensemble Band (had to try out)
Sophomore yr:
-AP World History
-PE/Health
-Pre-calc (I’m one year ahead in math)
-Spanish III
-English 10
-Art
-Biology
Junior yr:
-Chemistry
-AP Lang.
-AP Biology
-Spanish 4
-AP US History
-AP Seminar
-AP Calc AB
Senior yr (what I’ve signed up to take next year; no free)
-AP Chemistry
-Synthetic Biology (beyond AP level)
-AP European History
-AP Spanish
-AP Calculus BC
-AP Lit.
-AP Research
-Art/CWI studies: Tokyo Olympics 2020 (both are required)
EC: Varsity cross country for 4 years
Top 15 in Asia-Pacific International meet as a freshman
As a sophomore, 2nd place in the Asia-Pacific International meet, 2nd place in our version of nationals, 4th place in finals/our version of regionals
As a junior, 1st place in the Asia-Pacific International meet, 1st place in our version of nationals, 1st place in finals/our version of regionals (This was known as the triple crowd and hasn’t been done before)
I’ll be the captain next year.
EC: Varsity track for 4 years
As a freshman: 1st place for the 4x800 m as well as the record in our version of nationals; 3rd place in the 3200 m in our finals/version of nationals
As a sophomore: 2nd place for the 3200 m in our finals/version of nationals; 2nd place in the 4x800 (Thank God no one has broken our record) in our version of nationals; 3rd place in the 1600 m in our finals/version of nationals
As a junior & senior: Well I guess we’ll see then huh?
Clubs: Animal Advocates
Leader for two years as freshman & sophomore
Head leader next year as a senior
What we have done: We have discovered a “dog shelter” that was actually an excuse for a lady to hoarde dogs, raised awareness, were desperately trying to get the dogs out of there, got a newspaper company to investigate as well as the police. Unfortunately the shelter is just barely surviving and we have been forced out of the issue by our head of school…Not very happy about this. We also have a WWF homepage and of course have been volunteering. This year we had a voluntary trip to help out at a huge shelter up at Osaka.
NHS for half of my sophomore (when you can get inducted), junior, and senior year
Leader of one of the sub clubs within
EC: iGem team which is basically part of a synthetic biology competition up in Boston. First iGem team in our school
SAT Subject tests:
Math II taken as a sophomore: 750
Planning to take 3 more this year and then one more beginning of senior year
AP:
AP World: 4
Planning to take 5 this upcoming year
Common App Essay:
Planning to talk about the Japanese gender stigma, its connecting to my family (It’s disgusting), and how I would like to change it. I did an AP seminar project on this so I’m pretty invested in this issue.
Thanks guys! And please tell me if I should take the SAT again in the beginning of my senior year!