chances?

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>Magnet School in poor Urban Area–recognized as one of top schools in country
White Male
High-ish income but will request financial aid
Interested in: Social Sciences, Humanities, maybe math (basically everything except for science)</p>

<p>ACADEMICS
Rank: like 6/500 (top 2%)
GPA U/W: 3.86
GPA W: 4.29
Most rigorous load taken at HS–more APs than any other HS junior
One B (1st semester jr year, in ap chem)</p>

<p>APs
9th: Human Geo (5)
10th: Euro (5), Bio (5), French Lang (5)
11th: (expecting 4s and 5s) English Lang, Chem, Calc AB, Microecon, Macroecon, USH, Psych
12th: (to be taken) Eng Lit, Calc BC, Enviro, Comp Gov, US Gov, Stats?, French Lit</p>

<p>SAT
I’ve been getting 2330ish on practice tests</p>

<p>SAT2
Bio: 690
French: 760
Math, Bio retake, and 3rd test in fall (any recommendations for this test, btw?)</p>

<p>PSAT
230: 80 M, 78 W, 72 CR
(national merit semifinalist)</p>

<p>ACTIVITIES
–Forensics (Speech and Debate): definitely my favorite activity. i put more effort into it than any other extracurricular, and a lot of times it supersedes my class assignments.
I do: Policy Debate (1st alternate to nationals 2 years in row, league champs, valley champs, #8 in state our first year, #8 second year, cleared at invitational tournaments, various speaker awards)
Extemporaneous Speaking (awards at tournaments, state qualifier and national tournament participant)
plus some other speech events</p>

<p>–KEY Club: Sophomore year Pres, Jr year VP, Senior year Pres
have organized activities at abuse shelters, soup kitchens, and cultural centers, plus fundraisers; also got “spirit award” for division, lol</p>

<p>–Mock Trial (Freshman-Senior): pretrial and trial attorney</p>

<p>–Model UN: various awards, 8th grade-12th</p>

<p>–BackTalk (10-12): the local newspaper I wrote for–has a Sunday circulation of 300,000. paid job</p>

<p>–Tennis: JV 9-10, Varsity 11-12</p>

<p>Other activities: Link Crew, CSF, Human Relations Council, Jewish Youth Group (officer soph year)</p>

<p>Summer Programs:
10: Journalism Program at CSU Fresno
Debate Camp at Michigan State University</p>

<p>11: Dartmouth Debate Institute</p>

<p>Awards: not very many…mainly stuff for debate. Also, got awards for my nonfiction writing at the Young Writers Conference</p>

<p>Chances?</p>

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<p>What schools are you interested in?</p>

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<p>Well, Stanford.</p>

<p>My first choice is Columbia but Stanford/Dmouth/Berkeley/Pomona are my next top choices</p>

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<p>I think that you definitely have good chances at these schools because of your great GPA, rank, and test scores. You have been scoring high on the practice tests, so your test scores should be good enough for the schools that you listed. For your EC’s I could see that you were really passionate about forensics, and that passion will help you. However, nobody can really say for sure at all because admissions are so unpredictable…like I said, I think that you have good chances though. Good luck!</p>

<p>You said that you are retaking the SAT II bio–that’s good!</p>

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<p>US History for the third SATII or chem?</p>

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<p>** Good GPA! Good ECs! But you’ll never know~ **</p>