<p>Any chance? I know it’s a long shot but I am just wondering…</p>
<p>White Male, CA</p>
<p>GPA: 3.53 UW; 3.85 W (upward trend - 3.69 UW; 4.14 W for 10th & 11th)
Class Rank: 101/733 (ranked 36/733 for 10th & 11th)
AP: three 5’s & a 4</p>
<p>Taking 7 AP’s next year</p>
<p>PSAT: 1920
SAT I: 2050
SAT II Math IIC (est): 750
SAT II US Hist (est): 700</p>
<p>Other:
-Cross Country & Track (all years JV)
-Made about $1,200 w/ an invention. Not patented yet.
-Wrote a business plan that teacher said has potential.
-Have written about 120 pages of a novel. Hope to finish it in the next six months or so.
-Freshman Guide (school program to help acclimate freshman)
-Some community service. Life Scout
-Work 20hrs/wk year round</p>
<p>Recs and essays should be top notch.</p>
<p>Work on your numbers.</p>
<p>your gpa is a bit low for stanford, sats need to be better too. but your EC’s are great as they like to accept young entreprenuers like you…good luck</p>
<p>Get your novel published =P</p>
<p>You are kind of low on the numbers side. If you can boost it up you might have a chance but the big blow comes from the fact that you live in California. I don’t speak out of experience, but I bet thousands of CA residents apply to Stanford and they a lot of them probably have high scores.</p>
<p>this raises the competition a lot in the west coast area. if you were from kansas or some other state where there isn’t a lot of representation you might get in. </p>
<p>of course this may all be wrong because im not sure if stanford takes geography into account. you can look it up on princetonreview though =p</p>
<p>Geographical residence Considered
State residency Not Considered</p>
<p>there you go … seems like i guessed correctly =P</p>
<p>Very little chance.</p>
<p>I’d say it’s a high reach for you. Try to get those SAT’s up!!! UP UP UP!</p>
<p>Your rank and GPA make Stanford a big longshot (85% had above 3.75 uw, over 75% had math and verbals in the high 600s and above).</p>
<p>Raise that SAT score and you’ll have a chance.</p>
<p>Stanford puts more emphasis on grades/rank, from what I’ve seen and heard.</p>
<p>All of the top top schools that I’ve talked to, which is basically Stanford, Yale, and MIT, emphasize the fact that the first thing they look at is your transcript. Everything else is supposedly weighted more or less equally. The main idea here is that while a 4.4 GPA isn’t going to make them accept you alone, a 3.0 GPA would make them reject you without looking much further, no matter how fabulous your SAT scores are (in most cases).</p>
<p>I think they put a lot of emphasis on ESSAYS, too.</p>
<p>They do, but remember that no matter how great your essays are, they’ll never make up for a really abysmal GPA.</p>
<p>^This is true. No matter how many things they say they emphasize, GPA is almost always an important prerequisite.</p>
<p>10+11 only for Stanford, right?</p>