Yet another "What are my chances?" thread

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Well, Stanford is my first choice school (who doesn't say that?), and I've resigned myself to probably not getting in. Even ended up missing out on the early action deadline (does that really hurt me?), unfortunately. Out of curiousity though, I'd like to hear how I'd stack up. Maybe get a little hope.</p>

<p>2280 SAT (750 Reading, 800 Math, 730 Writing)
SAT IIs: 770 Literature, 770 Chemistry, 790 Lit
4.222 GPA (4.0 unweighted)
AP Scores: 5s in Chemistry, USH, Calculus AB, English 11
Letters of Rec: AP Chem teacher and AP English teacher, both will write me as great of letters as possible.
National Merit Semifinalist.</p>

<p>Senior schedule - AP Bio, AP Eng 12, AP Euro, Calc BC, AP Japanese IV (ind. study), (regular) Physics.</p>

<p>Extracurriculurs:</p>

<p>FIRST Robotics Competition - Software Subteam Leader
Boy Scouts - Eagle Scout rank
Varsity Swimming (9th-10th grade)
Japanese freelance translator (one video game completed, another in progress)
2010 Summer - Member of a sister city delegation to Japan
Helped run and keep together my local Catholic youth group while the new administration was breaking it up (until it fell apart during 10th grade)</p>

<p>Not the most impressive extracurriculur resume, but I'm curious what you guys will say.</p>

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<p>When I looked at your post I didn’t look at the stats at all I just looked at what you did in your ECs. What really caught me was that your ECs have passion. Especially the video game and youth group thing. AND Robotics. And I think this is what Stanford is looking for in its students…people who have passion and will do great things in life and will do great in life if given Stanford’s resources. </p>

<p>See, no one can predict your chances at Stanford. The only thing that you can do is believe in yourself and believe in your passion. When I look at your ecs i get a feeling that you will follow your interests no matter what and I think that’s really good! </p>

<p>So in the end, you have passion, Stanford is looking for passion, believe in yourself no matter what(if you don’t, why should Stanford believe in you?), don’t ask people for chances because no one can predict them and I hope you get in :)</p>