Chance a humanities kid? REA

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>I’m applying Early Action, yikes! I always see lots of Stanford threads with math/science heavy applicants, so I was wondering if anyone knew what they were looking for for more humanities/social science-oriented students.</p>

<p>SCORES
SAT I: 2310 (took twice, best single sitting): 800 CR, 800 W, 710 M
SAT II: Literature 800, US History 800
AP: US History 5, Calculus AB 5, Spanish Literature 5</p>

<p>GPA: 3.8 (unweighted)
School doesn’t rank</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS

  • every school play/musical since 5th grade
  • NHS president, started peer tutoring program (2 years)
    -co-president/founder of school branch of the KURA Project, group raising money to buy supplies for schools in rural Kenya (2 years)
    -Student Ambassador-- selective group involved in school outreach/admissions, organize charity events in community(5 years)
    -Varsity Dance Team (2 years)
  • Varsity A Capella-- school a capella group (2 years)</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
This past summer, spent 3 months as dining room staff at a camp/conference center, getting overworked and way underpaid but living in staff cabins and making friends from Hungaria, Russia, Serbia, Australia, and the UK</p>

<p>SUMMERS
-Worked at a camp/conference center
-Attended the Middlebury Monterey Language Academy, month-long Spanish immersion program
-Month-long exchange trip to Poland the summers before 8th and 9th grade, stayed with host family, taught English</p>

<p>ESSAYS–solid, if not spectacular
-Common App essay is about languages/internationalism and my trips to Poland
-Activities essay is about my work with the KURA Project
-“What matters to me” essay is about theater and communication
-“Intellectual” essay is about discussion and ideas
-“Roommate” essay is basically just a bunch of my weird eccentricities</p>

<p>RECOMMENDATIONS: from my English and Spanish teachers, both of whom adore me, and my counselor, who knows enough about me to write a good rec</p>

<p>OTHER:
I’m from a private but not too competitive IB school in the Northeast
Caucasian female
My aunt went to Stanford? </p>

<p>So what do you guys think? Obviously, there’s no predicting this stuff for sure, I just wanted some outside input. </p>

<p>THANKS</p>

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<p>Oh, and I’m a National Merit Semifinalist, if that means anything. No other major awards, though, just something from the state drama festival and school-based awards, plus a couple college book awards</p>

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<p>You have a GREAT SHOT! But, as we all know, college admissions to HYPS are a crap shoot!</p>

<p>What is your ethnicity?</p>

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<p>caucasian, unfortunately in this case</p>

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<p>any other input/thoughts? anyone?</p>

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<p>183 views and no responses! please, guys?</p>

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<p>Solid Ec’s and a light legacy. GPA is a tiny bit underwhelming but still good. Hopefully you’ve challenged yourself with advanced/hns courses throughout in sciences as well as humanities ( I see AP Calc which is good)
Pretty much as solid as the average hs student with no special opportunities gets.*
Although you might consider your various abroad trips as ‘special’</p>

<p>In which case it’s pretty good that you wrote about them in your essay.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

<p>Also don’t worry too much about these threads; I doubt the opinions of the average CC member are much to go by (myself included)</p>

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<p>I would have recommended that you take Math 2 to alleviate your 710 in SAT I Math, but perhaps the 5 in Calculus AB will make up for it.</p>

<p>On the other hand, your EC’s are not great and your GPA, while not bad, could be higher especially for Stanford. Scores are good, but not a great chance.</p>

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<p>thanks for the input guys. i’m at an IB school, so that’s why i have so few AP tests, and my GPA is the highest anyone at my school’s had for 4 years-- but we don’t rank so stanford won’t know that anyway :frowning:
and yeah, my ECs are not so great. i feel like that will probably be the biggest factor if i’m rejected-- that i didn’t do enough to stand out.
oh well, i did activities that i liked in high school and had/have a pretty busy social life. i’m trying not to regret stuff i can’t change…</p>