caltennis92

PLEASE CHANCE ME:

Gender: F
Location: S. california
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
High School Type: sends some grads to top schools
Will apply for financial aid: Yes


Ethnicity: African American/Mexican
First gen. American
First gen. to attend college



Academics:

GPA - Unweighted: 3.80
GPA - Weighted: 4.20
Class Rank: 15
Class Size: 700
Will have completed 13 AP by the time I graduate. Chemistry, Euro History, Enlglish (LIT. and Lng.), Psych, Biology, Calc, Spanish, Comp Sci, Stats, and others (I forgot)


Major will probably be in either biology or poli sci


Scores:

SAT I Math: 680
SAT I Critical Reading: 760
SAT I Writing: 660
Total: 2100

SAT II Biology - E: 720
SAT II Spanish: 770

Extracurriculars:

Significant Extracurriculars: peer leaders, city youth advisory council, California Scholarship Federation, Interact club, violin, high school orchestra with 4th place in national festival of gold competition, selected to attended the ratary youth leadership awards camp, also selected to attened the chicano youth leadership conference in sacramento, NHS

Leadership positions: committe chairman of the interact Club, vice president of CSF, secretary of Interact, vice president of youth advisory council

Athletic Status - list sport and your level: water polo- varsity,

Volunteer/Service Work: church (altar server), hospice, Race for the Cure activities, I started my own charity project in which I hand-made 200 teddy bears and donated them to abused children, library volunteer every summer
over 1000 hours so far

Honors and Awards: student athlete, rotary youth leadership award, presidential volunteer award, ap scholar with distinction, national hispanic scholar, honor roll, honor guard

College Summer programs: I take community college classes over the summer like Spanish, Microeconomics, Environmental Science, and Microbiology.

questbridge finalist

nickst22

No, you didn't.

Nitro Hawk

lol, "Gender: F"

you have a chance like anyone else

caltennis92

@nickst22- hahaha thanks!

caltennis92

I forgot to add my AP scores! Here they are:
Spanish-5
English Lang-5
Psych-5
Biology-5
Euro History-4
Chemistry-3

Have yet to take the tests for the others

Orvent

You have as good a shot as anyone else who is applying to Stanford who hasn't cured cancer.

So get to work on curing cancer, that is the only sure fire way to get in.

caltennis92

bump
lol orvent- if only I could have done that yesterday! =)

Nitro Hawk

wow my post sounded sexist

I meant lol @ the brusqueness of going "Gender: F"

shen0211

did you ea? i think that your URM and first gen hooks definitely help boost the effect of your good SAT scores and rank

rachel909

you know, actually the gender mentioning is kinda significant in a sense. i mean despite the fact that she has as much chance as anyone else does and her gender won't be the final determining factor on her admission decision or anything, stanford tries to have a balance in gender distribution. i think this year they ended up with !% more males than females and the year before it was the other way around. either way, they try to keep it relatively close. i forgot where, but there's this one school that has 85% male and 15% female. you can imagine how much easier it is for a female to be admitted lol. i mean this obviously isn't the case with stanford but it's just interesting how that stuff all works out.

caltennis92

yes I did EA!!!!

peachpuff

good luck!

Evenstarz

I think you have a pretty good chance actually.
Not too sure, but I think URM weighs pretty well with Stanford, and coupled with fairly good scores/classes/ECs might just get you in