Chances, yes or no

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>I just want brutal honesty. You guys can make comments, criticize, etc anything. I just want the truth. I want to apply early action. Yes or no? can i get in?</p>

<p>male korean-american student from Los Angeles
school: My school is considered under-performing…around 5000 people in school and to tell you the truth, not competive. Huge dropout rate (around 30-50 percent.)
^funny story about dat…there was around 1000 in my freshman year class. During sophmore, it shrunk to 850ish…then junior year, my class was a little above the 700 student mark. and my Senior year, there is a grand total of 631 students. -_-… that is why below, I don’t know my exact</p>

<p>rank: 3 out of 631</p>

<p>Parent income: dad: 70K +
mom: unemployed
sibling: one brother
first generation student.
SATI: 2080
SAT II: Biology: 760
World History: 770</p>

<p>my freshman year really sucked because I found out my dad had a tumor and he was seriously ill. (Seriously, he couldnt work for about 6 months due to therapy and recovering.) I have straight A’s throughout my high school career but freshman year was different. Then after the treatment my dad was ok, I started to focus back in school. </p>

<p>Freshman Year:
Geometry C/B
Honors World History B/B
Biology B/A
English 1 A/A
Spanish 1 A/A
unweighted:3.4
weighted:3.6</p>

<p>Sophmore:
Algebra 2 A/A
Spanish 2 A/A
Honors English 2 A/A
AP World History A/A
AP Biology A/A
unweighted: 4.0
weighted: 4.6</p>

<p>Junior Year:
Math Analysis A/A
AP Eng. A/A
AP USH A/A
AP Chem A/A
AP Environmental science A/A
Spanish 3 A/A
unweighted: 4.0
weighted: 4.667</p>

<p>Senior Schedule:
AP Lit.
AP Spanish
AP Govt./Pol.
AP Physics
AP Calc. BC
AP Mac. Econ</p>

<p>ec’s:
-Mock trial 10-12
-President of Volunteer Services in a organization that helps people with disabilities. (<— i spent a lot of my free time on this position)
-secretary of kiwins.
-Do book drives annually and donate the books to various organizations(goodwill, etc)
-have about 1500+ hours of community service</p>

<p>summer programs:
A mock trial camp 9th-11th grade so far. planning to go next year.</p>

<p>community college courses:
Psychology A/A
Elementary Statistics A/A
Korean Dance A/A <– did this because I could not fit an art class in school.</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Psychology- 5
Human Geography-5
AP Bio- 5
AP World- 5
AP Env.- 3
AP Chem- 4
AP USH- 5
AP Eng. Comp- 4</p>

<p>Awards:
many volunteer awards from mayor
couple presidential volunteer award
well most of my award is from volunteering</p>

<p>i am going to guess my hook is going to be about volunteering.
thank you.</p>

<p>p.s- my unweighted GPA throughout my soph-junior is 4.0. My 9th -11th is around the 3.7-3.8 mark.</p>

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<p>Chances yes or no? no.</p>

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<p>I think you have a decent shot, but you have to have some passion you write about in your essay & have some good recs too. If I had your profile, I’d apply; nothing to lose and something to gain if you’re accepted.</p>

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<p>well my passion is volunteering. I volunteered starting 7th grade for a volunteering organization and I am basically 2nd in command in the organization (1st in command is the founder). I have a little over 2100 hours if you count 7th grade to right now. But since the college want high school, I have exactly 1496 hours for 9-11th. I mean, this is my passion. It might not look like it, but seriously, I am so involved in this volunteering and I think this is my hook. Since it’s my senior, I do about 3 hours a day of volunteering because school got much more chill.</p>

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<p>well, it depends on a few factors… first of all, stanford definitly ranks schools. for example, my school last year sent about 10% of the graduating senior class to stanford. so, if stanford has had a good experience with the kids from your school, you will have a better shot. secondly, stanford places very high importance on your college essay. if your essay kicks some serious booty, then you can go basically anywhere you want.</p>