Chance me at Stanford?

Tyler09
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 10:07:01 +0000

If your dad went there for grad school I don’t believe your a legacy to the undergraduate school, not that Stanford evaluates legacy very highly.

Your test scores and gpa are far too low to make it in on academics. Add to that the fact that for a competitive school, your courseload was incredibly easy.

I hope you have more activities, because you don’t have many and I don’t see an ounce of passion reading it. On the plus you and your friend did show some proactivity in starting that nonprofit, even though it didn’t raise any money, and you only did one activity. And are you sure it’s a nonprofit? Did you get federal nonprofit status from the government?

Being from the Silicon valley is also going to hurt because of the competition.

Sorry i don’t have more good news.

It is by no means IMPOSSIBLE, but I would get un-set on going to Stanford, and consider schools a tier or two less competitive, just to be realistic.

Suggestions: Get your ACT score up to a 34+, your subject tests are good enough. Plan a few more activities for your “nonprofit”, even if you don’t have time to execute, just having things in the planning helps. If you can do something to raise a lot, I mean A LOT of money, and then donate it to something that goes along with the muslim theme like families in Iraq, that would boost your chances tremendous.

You need to do something HUGE if you want to stand out.