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<p>Hi everyone, this is my first post on CC so tell me if I left anything out! I am a junior (white female) planning to apply EA to Stanford University.</p>

<p>GPA: UW 3.95 (3.86 including freshman year) W 4.36 (I go to an extremely competitive public high school in NJ, in top 4-5% of class)</p>

<p>SAT: 2240 (740 reading, 720 math, 780 writing)</p>

<p>SAT 2: Biology-M 730, will take Math 2 in June</p>

<p>APs: Junior - Lang, Spanish, GovPol Senior - Calc BC, Psych, Chinese, Macroeconomics</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars: 4 years varsity tennis (3 year starter – state team and doubles titles, 1 year captain), science league, Chinese literary magazine</p>

<p>Community Service: Co-founder and president of program in which school tennis teams, and other members of my school, teach tennis and tutor kids at the Boys and Girls Club of Newark twice a week. (The program has received statewide recognition including newspaper articles, statements from the mayor of Newark, and a Governor’s Jefferson Award for Outstanding Youth Service)
Raised over $2000 to purchase equipment for the program and donated the rest to the Boys and Girls Club</p>

<p>Awards: National Merit commended scholar, Book Award recipient (prestigious award for students in the top 5% of the class), 3rd place in William Patterson University poetry recitation competition in Advanced Chinese (will compete this spring again in the area of Advanced Chinese), Governor’s Jefferson Award for Outstanding Youth Service, Silver medalist on National Spanish Exam</p>

<p>Random fact: skipped 1st grade and am consequently the youngest person in my grade (might write about this in an essay, I don’t know if this would look impressive or just random and unnecessary)</p>

<p>Other random fact: I used to model and act in TV shows and commercials while in Middle School. Does this count as work experience?</p>

<p>Thanks for any advice/insight about my chances!</p>

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<p>Honestly, it’s hard to say. Your academics seem strong but are probably fairly average when compared with the typical Stanford applicant. Your EC’s seem pretty solid as well, but then again a lot of people who apply to Stanford have engaged in outstanding extracirricular activities. </p>

<p>The truth is the admission process is a tossup and whether or not you deserve to get accepted doen’t translate to whether you will be accepted. Honestly, the most certain way to be accepted to Stanford is probably through a sports scholarship, and if you are as good at tennis as your application suggests, then perhaps you can considered for one of these.</p>

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<p>okay, thanks for your honesty yoyo687!</p>

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<p>EA is easier to get in, but I would say you have a 25% chance on getting in. Your extracurriculars are fairly weak for a stanford applicant, but good job on the two language classes. Also, don’t write that essay about being young in your grade; its too common</p>

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<p>I can’t say. Stanford is pretty crazy with their admissions process (as are all other schools with acceptance rates less than 15%) and a lot of it is a lottery. Your tennis/serivce ECs are very interesting and impressive; I would write an essay about that. Don’t write about skipping a grade since it doesn’t have nearly as large of an impact on you or your community. I skipped 1st grade too, and all that happened is that I was one of the shortest people throughout grade school and one of the last ones in my class to drive.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t say the odds are in your favor, but you do have a better shot than many. Write some kick-ass essays, and see if you can bring up your SATs to the 2300s if you want to see a significant increase in your chances of admission. Or you can confess that you’re Hannah Montana. It worked on the show.</p>

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<p>thanks for the advice!</p>

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<p>pick an EC you are most passionate about and write about it in your essya. Looks pretty solid, but just cross your fingers because getting into stanford could be really easy or hard.</p>

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