Nezooo

I realize that Stanford admissions are somewhat random, and that you can't give accurate % chances, but, I think my request might be somewhat reasonable.

Another way of phrasing it: am I better than the average applicant?

StanfordOneDay

no.

10char.

hpyscm

I disagree- I think you're above the average applicant

hpyscm

Oh wait is national chemistry Olympiad along the lines of usamo and usabo?

Nezooo

It is USNCO, it is easier to qualify. Held by ACS, to select team for IChO
I did get second place in the south carolina regional, though.

Nezooo

How significant is that?

JemDkyl

I don't think anything is significant to Stanford if it's not significant to you.

Nezooo

Honestly that was really significant to me, and I consider it to be one of my biggest achievements.

moltobene18

I would include your AMC score. However, given that you app is so quant. focused, MIT and CIT would be better fits for you. I also think you would find the tech schools more personally rewarding.

cptofthehouse

You are certainly in the running for these schools but I put you well below 50% but better than 7%. Are your a California resident? I think it's tougher for those who are in state because just about every single top student in CA applies there, and Stanford wants geographic diverstiy. My brother lives minutes from the campus and tell me that so many top drawer kids in his area are turned down by Stanford that the school could just about fill a class with them, but then they'd be Local U. Most of those kids get accepted to peer schools, some HPY, even with the Stanford rejection.

zenkoan

I'm sure there's some truth to that, cptofthehouse. It's also true to an extent at our peer schools, all of whom like to maxmize diversity and have students from all 50 states as well as many foreign countries. So while they'll have a good representation of students from their own region, they also want to include people from all over.

moltobene, the great thing about Stanford is that we can go toe to toe with MIT and Caltech on the quant side, but we also excel at the full range of university offerings. MIT and Caltech are amazing tech institutes but neither can match the across-the-board breadth and depth of Stanford. Every year quanty people here discover interests in many areas new to them. We also have unique interdisciplinary majors that integrate both quantitative and humanities areas, for those of us who want both. : )

wildcat0

I take it that it's pretty bad that I live about 30 min away from Stanford. . . fuuu