Yipppeee!! (Chances)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>Lol sorry about the title...Anyway- please rate my chances for Stanford EA- It's been my dream school forever!</p>

<p>Female, White/Asian, Public School, New Mexico
SAT: 2090
SAT II's:
History: 630
Spanish: 550
Math II: 650
(may retake in October)
4.0 GPA
10/700 Rank
Probably good recs and pretty good essays
2 APs junior year, awaiting scores, senior year schedule will have 5 APs</p>

<p>ECs:
Cross country (freshman year)
Piano for 9 years, but no awards or ranking
Choir freshman and sophomore year
Key Club:
VP soph and junior year
#1 fundraiser in state junior year
President senior year
NHS Junior year, secretary senior year
VP of National Art Honor Society junior year, will be prez senior year</p>

<p>I have started volunteering with my home city (about 5 hrs/week), but have only been doing this since second semester of junior year, some over the summer, and probably into senior year- will this look like I just started to look good on the resume? (I kinda did...lol)</p>

<p>Worked at dad's lawfirm for 2 summers, mostly filing paperwork and such</p>

<p>Do I have no chance, below-avg, average, above average, or great chance? Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>Stanford's acceptance rate is 13%. you are obviously a very good college candidate, but again, almost 9 out of 10 very good college candidates are denied admission (most likely, I will be denied too). If you have an AMAZING essay and AMAZING recomendations, you might have a good shot, but even that won't be gurenteed. good luck on that essay, because for 99.5% of us out there, any less than AMAZING could mean rejected!</p>

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<p>I'm just a stupid freshman, so I don't even know if my opinion is valid, but I recommend that you retake your SATs because they are a bit on the low side. Plus, you're not considered a minority so you might have (i'm not sure about this, actually) lost a bit of an advantage.
um. Your rank is good, GPA, if it's unweighted... that's good...
I guess you have an average chance, make sure you get good recommendations and essays. :-) best of luck.</p>

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<p>Yout SAT and SAT2 are a but low especially your sat 2. If you can I would strongly strongly recommend you improve them.</p>

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<p>Your scores (especially SAT IIs) are low, and there is nothing in your profile that can make up for that in any way. You can apply, but realistically your chances are very low (and being white/asian won't help you either...).</p>

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<p>Also, I forgot to add originally, I have a sister who's a sophomore at Stanford and a grandfather who went there. Will that help at all? And I'm going on a People to People trip this summer and went on a trip with my aunt and uncle last summer to latin america where we worked for two weeks building homes for the needy there (they run the organization). I know those aren't too stellar, but if I made them into good essays could they maybe be a hook?</p>

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<p>Admissions officers are wary of those "trips" to Africa, South America...</p>

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<p>Really? I was a little afraid of that...So it wouldn't be a hook?</p>

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<p>People to people just shows that you have the money to spend on it. There's nothing wrong with having money, but it will not help you.</p>

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<p>Bummer. is it the same with all those summer programs- wut about Presidential Classroom and LeadAmerica, which you can earn college credit for? Also, wut about the trip with family members, not one of those student trips. And does having a sister at Stanford help?</p>

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<p>It helps to show that you use your time productively. All the "selective" programs that cost thousands of dollars are worthless admissions-wise, but you might still learn from them and enjoy them if the money is not an issue.</p>

<p>Officially only the parents count as legacy. But they do ask on the app where other family members went. So having a sister there won't hurt... But don't count on it helping much either...</p>