<p>These are my stats, and I got in.</p>
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<p>I never participated in any Olympiads, international competitions, etc. Literally everything I did was school-area/district-area only. It is possible to get in without national competitions, etc.</p>
<p>I would suggest just skimming through this thread (<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/1480174-stanford-class-2017-official-decisions-thread-rd.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/stanford-university/1480174-stanford-class-2017-official-decisions-thread-rd.html</a>) and looking up the stats of the kids who were accepted/rejected. It might give you a vague idea of what Stanford’s looking for, but as said before, admissions is a crapshoot. Kids who have perfect scores, perfect grades, an incredible amount of extracurriculars can get rejected, and kids who (pretty much just me lol) haven’t done much in my HS years can get accepted. It’s difficult to predict.</p>
<p>I am not a CS person, so I don’t know any good CS colleges. I would google “Top CS undergraduate colleges/universities” or something and look up the rankings. Of course, rankings themselves aren’t a foolproof indicator of the best, but it might give you an idea of which colleges are up there.</p>