<p>Thanks in advanced for offering help! I have always been interested in attending Stanford, but I like many others am afraid that certain factors of my application are not adequate to even have a chance of admittance. I have a 1810 on the SAT which I have taken once, and a 27 on the ACT. My GPA isn’t great it is 3.75, but all of my non A’s have occured in AP or honors classes. I have a well rounded set of EC’s including a major leadership roll as student body vice president. Which includes large amount of community service that I was given a school award for, I have been involved in Orchestra, cross country, model United nations, tennis, student government. As well as a few other thing that I am not listing due to my lack of commitment (less than 3 years). All that is rather average, however i have one key unique component to my application. Last fall I studied abroad in China because I was awarded a NSLI-Y (<a href=“http://www.nsliforyouth.org%5B/url%5D”>www.nsliforyouth.org</a>) scholarship through the US state department. I am writing my essay about how the experienced fundamentally changed my perspective of the world. Sorry for all that dribble, but here is my question, do you think a unique essay and strong EC’s could make up for my academic averageness?</p>