zoology geek hopes stanford?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Stanford University
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<p>admit/waitlist/defer/reject please: stanford (EA), UCLA, UCB, UCD, UCI, USC, UCSB, U of M, cornell, dartmouth</p>

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<p>*dad is stanford legacy </p>

<p>currently: junior
female
white
SF Bay Area, competitive high school.
API index 818
school does not rank, maybe top 10-15%</p>

<p>gpa fresh: 4.0 out of 4.0
soph: 4.1 out of 4.1</p>

<p>ap euro: 5</p>

<p>junior: 4.3 out of 4.5 </p>

<p>ap english
ap studio art
ap us history
honors spanish 4</p>

<p>senior :? </p>

<p>SATs: 550 m 760 e 710 w</p>

<p>art supplement: probably will be fairly good. </p>

<ul>
<li>california state arts scholar for animation </li>
<li>illustrated cover for paperback book from a small company</li>
<li>spanish exchange student</li>
<li>1 month researching environmental issues in costa rica for college credit</li>
<li>girl scout gold award - created and implemented a program to help inner city kids learn about nature and wildlife</li>
<li>5 year volunteer lindsay wildlife musuem
-120 hours san francisco zoo volunteer</li>
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<p>in school:
head art and photo editor, editorial staff: literary magazine catharsis (4 years)
national honor society (3 years)
california scholarship federation (2 years)
science alliance (3 years) - helping 5th graders make science fair projects</p>

<p>hook: animal/ecology/art. hopes to major in something like conservation/zoology/helping developing countries. dream job at national geographic. </p>

<p>expecting:
recs: pretty good, not amazing
essays: good</p>

<p>**not bad enough for learning disability, but kinda interesting: have synesthesia, which affects my math ability. basically all numbers and letters are colored, and i see colors for every sound i hear. neurological/genetic anomaly.</p>

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<p>just curious, understood if you dont answer, but why are you applying a year early? that'll decrese your chances...</p>

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<p>hey, thanks for the reply. I'm not applying a year early, i'm just curious what my shot at colleges would be given my current sats. :)</p>

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<p>stanford has excellent faculty in ecology, but if your interests truly are in conservation/zoology/organismal biology and you want to do research as an undergrad, you'd probably be better off at a place like Berkeley, or even UC Davis (incredibly good program). If, in fact, you are stanford material and you choose a place like Davis, my assumption is you will do very well. Couple this with good research which will lead to strong recommendations, and you'll get into any graduate program you could possibly want. Understandably, you'll probably get a better liberal arts type curriculum at a place like Stanford. However, if you're not prestige obsessed, I would look into those other schools, along with Duke, Cornell and perhaps the University of Chicago.</p>