Chance me! From New York

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>So I’m from New York and my dream school is…Stanford!</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>GPA: ~4.1 weighted. I did pretty badly freshman year, and then did pretty well after that. Each year it got better though. I’d say it went from 3.7 => 4.0 => 4.3 => 4.4 (weighted). (Don’t know how much Stanford will look at freshman year.) I haven’t taken too many AP’s (about 6, including senior year) even though our school offers most/all of them.</p>

<p>SAT: 2210 (760 M, 750 W, 700 CR)
SAT II: 760 Math, 750 Physics</p>

<p>AP Scores: Have taken 3 AP tests so far, all 5’s.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars: Some leadership in some clubs, community service, blah blah, and research over summer.</p>

<p>Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar, Intel STS Finalist.</p>

<p>Essays: Pretty good, one of them was kinda risky though.</p>

<p>Teacher/Counselor Recs: Probably good/great, but not amazing.</p>

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<p>You have nice qualifications but there’s nothing that screams fabulous-enough-to-be-in-the-7%-who-get-admitted. I think it will depend a lot on your essays and how likeable you made yourself. For Stanford, a risky essay is probably good.</p>

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<p>I second this ^^^</p>

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<p>^ What I was thinking. Really well rounded applicant, but nothing that stands out as amazing. You should have absolutely no trouble at all getting in to Berkeley, and maybe some lower Ivies.</p>

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<p>Wow, didn’t know being an Intel Finalist doesn’t count as amazing anymore :)</p>

<p>In all seriousness, you definitively have a good shot, from this point it’s just luck</p>

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<p>Stanford excepts nothing less than a 4.0 in most cases and expects beyond the absolute best… im sorry but I would say the odds are against you.</p>

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<p>Most of the people above don’t know what they are talking about. STS finalists have a better then 90% chance of acceptance.</p>

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<p>My D applied to Stanford from NJ . Stanford doesn’t offer as many acceptances to east coast folks as you would think . She went to Harvard instead .</p>

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<p>Ttaayylloorr and snipersas have “interesting” word choices: "excepts " and "better then "</p>

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<p>There are lots of students here from NY and NJ, so I suggest that people not generalize from random anecdotes posted in this forum.</p>

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<p>…and Grammar Naziism has no place in this discussion.</p>

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<p>What are you people talking about? First of all being an intel finalist is an amazing achievement. I’d say 90% in at any college (like the above poster). Stanford doesn’t have any quotas. It accepts more people from California simply because more people from California apply. OP, if you’re an intel finalist you must be smart enough to know what your chances are.</p>

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<p>Doener, that’s incorrect–Stanford’s founding documents specify that it will maintain a certain percentage of California students in its undergraduate student body; I believe it’s about 40%. However–in practice it isn’t easier to be admitted to Stanford from California than from most other states, because a gigantic number of California students apply every year. It’s also worth noting that Stanford’s peer schools tend to have similar concentrations of students from their own geographic regions, since they typically feel an allegiance and a loyalty to their locales and want to reciprocate the support.</p>