Chances please? SCEA?

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<p>What are my chances at Stanford if i apply SCEA?</p>

<p>My ACT composite is a 30, but i retook it on the 16th with writing.
it wasn’t exactly a good day, but i got a 29 composite on it.
Since Stanford takes the highest subset scores from any sitting to make your highest composite, my highest composite would be a 32.</p>

<p>Composite 30
English-28
Math-24
Reading-33
Science-34</p>

<p>Composite 29
English-32
Math-27
Reading-30
Science-26 (I don’t know what happened)
and i havent received my essay score yet)</p>

<p>so my highest composite would be a 32
English-32
Math-27
Reading-33
Science-34</p>

<p>my gpa is 3.84 unweighted (it would be higher but I had to move in the middle of Junior year and make up 4 weeks of school work),
and I am ranked 30 out of 529 students.</p>

<p>I have attended 3 different high schools in 2 1/2 years.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/Community Service:</p>

<p>9th grade (high school of 150 students in Texas):

  • Varsity track and field (placed 6th in the all-district meet, lettered)
    -Varsity Cheerleading (Co-Captain, team placed first in Dallas Cowboys comp., lettered)
    -Student Council (class treasurer)
    -National Junior Honor Society
    -Spanish Club
    -Habitat For Humanity
    -Parent’s Night Out (Childcare for mentally handicapped children)
    -choir</p>

<p>10th grade (moved to Utah, high school of 2200 students)
-Varsity Track and Field
-Key Club
-National Honor Society (Officer)
-DECA
-Habitat for Humanity
-Debate Team
-Spanish Club
-Summer hire in Hill Air Force Base Public Affairs office, also volunteered there during the school year.</p>

<p>11th grade (first semester in Utah):
-National Honor Society (Officer, Service Project Chairperson)
-Key Club
-DECA
-FBLA
-Habitat for Humanity
-FCA</p>

<p>11th grade (moved to Illinois and started the semester 3 1/2 weeks late)
-Varsity Track and Field (Lettered, St. Clair County Champion in pole vault, placed third in conference)
-Campus Kitchen (Make food for underprivileged citizens in St. Louis)
-Intern at Public Affairs Office on Scott Air Force Base</p>

<p>12th grade (High school in Illinois, 2200 students)
-National Honor Society
-FCA
-Relgions United Interfaith Mosaic (newly founded club at our school)
-Campus Kitchen
-Intern at Scott Air Force Base Public Affairs Office (Official Photographer, and published in the Scott AFB paper).
-Plan to run Varsity track and Field.</p>

<p>I have also been on the Honor Roll all three years of HS, and i plan to be on the Honor roll this year as well. </p>

<p>Also, I have taken all honors classes offered and PAP classes.
I took AP european history soph year, it was the only AP offered.
Then Junior year, i took AP BIO, AP US History, and AP calculus.
My high school in IL does not offer AP classes,
and it does not have many honors classes.
but I am taking the honors classes that they do offer.</p>

<p>Could anyone help me figure out what my chances are, please??</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>i asked an admissions officer and he said any EC’s from 9th grade cannot be included on your app. unless, if you want, in your short essay.</p>

<p>I dont know if they combine the highest ACT scores??
i dont know about SCEA, b/c they told me they usually either accept someone or reject them; rarely do they defer them b/c they think it is pointless if you really have no chance.</p>

<p>nothing you have will keep you out, so go ahead and try if you want to; its up to you</p>

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<p>I think it may be important to mention that you moved frequently. I don’t mean to use it as an excuse, per se; I mean that you could write a story or describe how the frequent moves affected you and how you were able to succeed despite that.</p>

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<p>ok thanks!
yea, I realized they didn’t count the 9th grade EC’s. </p>

<p>I have heard from two different people that that they do take the highest scores,
but then i also heard they didn’t.
On the online app, however, they ask for your highest scores for each section. So I assume that means they look at the highest scores, but i could be wrong. </p>

<p>I didn’t know that SCEA info, though, so thanks. Would my chances be greater if i applied SCEA?</p>

<p>Any input is appreciated.
thanks!</p>