Can I get into Stanford? Need advice.

ilyaspark
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 21:40:53 +0000

Hi, I have a difficult situation and will be happy if you can give me any advice.
For 10 years I’ve been studied in Russia and had about 3.7 GPA in 9th and 10th grade.
This year I moved to the US and now I’m studying here as a junior.
But my problem is: before moving to the US my English was bad and during first months here it was really hard for me to study. The result is - I got 2.3 GPA for the first quarter. Now I have huge improvements but my semester GPA won’t be much better I think - probably about 2.7. I’m of course not taking any AP classes because with them I would probably had about 1.0 GPA haha)
But my dream college is Stanford, and I’ve moved to the US because I believed I’ll have better chances of getting into Stanford from the US school.
I won a lot of competitions in my home country in programming and computer security, for example, a contest conducted by Microsoft. I founded 2 my own startups (they wasn’t very famous, but it had some success). Shortly, I started programming when I was 10. And now I’m working as a freelancer to gain money for my education and living, and launching my new project, and also going to participate in the Google Science Fair this year.
Do you think I get into Stanford, if I’ll get a good GPA next semester (and of course will have a good SAT)?