<p>My dream school since I was about seven years old has been to go to Stanford, I hope I qualify, what do you guys think?</p>
<p>I’m currently an IB Junior at a public high school that received a grade of an ‘A’ by the U.S. Department of Education.
Not to mention, I’m number one in my class.
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted: 4.587
Schedule: IB Spanish HL, IB Photography, IB Pre-Calculous, IB Biology 2, AP Language Composition, IB American History
I’m Hispanic-mother from El Salvador
SAT: 2080</p>
<p>Last year, I started my own charity organization with my local Catholic church called “Rescue Me”, bringing clothing to the 47% of poverty in El Salvador. We bring articles of clothing in a container along with my city, so far we have 550 articles of clothing and 130 shoes!</p>
<p>I am doing research with a local university and its undergraduates in the department of biochemistry, working with riboswitches in an attempt to try to make medicines that your body isn’t immune to, like anti-biotics</p>
<p>Last year, I went to Johns Hopkins and took a hospital class, as I am very interested in becoming a doctor and have a recommendation letter from its top professor.</p>
<p>I am vice president of Spanish National Honor Society, a member of NHS and Art National Honor Society, as well as on the Varsity Swim Team</p>
<p>How does my resume look??? :D</p>
<p>Your EC’s sound great, especially the starting a charity and the research. You may want to retake the SAT though. </p>
<p>Just remember that Stanford is hyper-competitive and while if I was on the admissions committee, I would definitely accept you, I don’t know about them. They get so many qualified applicants that you just can’t say with any certainty whether or not you’ll get in.</p>
<p>Good luck with everything!</p>
<p>Thank you! I forgot to mention, I travel to El Salvador each summer for 1.5 months and have been to 28 countries, so I’m well cultured, as well as diverse myself. </p>
<p>However, 2080 is what I scored my second time As a Hispanic, I know my percentile is more than say a Caucasian attaining that score. It’s 20 points from a 2100, do you think they would reject me because of my 2080?</p>
<p>All I can say is that I got rejected with a 1990. It’s just 10 points away from a 2000, I thought. However, I don’t do nearly as much community service as you do, so who knows? You’ve got a lot of time, so why don’t you try and see if you can get a better score?</p>
<p>That’s true, how was your schedule and GPA though? And yeah, it’s weird though, first time I took it I got a 1750…and hahaha I worked my butt off to get a 2080, I suppose I could use the summer to get it up at least 50-60 points? Then, I would have a 2150. Do you know of anyone that got accepted?</p>
<p>Also, do I need to take the SAT II’s?</p>
<p>SAT II’s are recommended. Since your SAT is not particularly strong, if you think you can score in the 750-800 range on an SAT you should probably take it. It probably won’t come down to that, as test scores don’t get much consideration anyways. </p>
<p>As far as your original question goes, you have a strong shot. I tend to look at chance threads as how many things you have going for you, and you have: GPA, schedule rigor, ECs, and URM. The first two put you in consideration, the ECs will hopefully push you over the edge with the URM status removing any doubts the adcom may have about you.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t be surprised if you were rejected though. So you’ll want to keep your options open as far as other schools go. I’d recommend Rice, Duke, and Northwestern off the bat as I think they have a similar culture (academic, athletic, aura, etc.) to Stanford. They can’t all keep you out!</p>
<p>I’d recommend taking the SAT II’s, they’re not required but nice to have. They’re also not that difficult. </p>
<p>I had a 3.5 unweighted GPA, 3.75 weighted. I took no AP classes, instead taking them all at a JC. My EC’s were volunteering at the temple on Fridays and studying Indian vocal music. I do know of someone who got in, but I have no idea what his grades were. All I know is that he is heavily involved in music.</p>
<p>If you do a lot of work, I’m sure you can bump up the SAT. However, the score might go down. That’s what happened to me (I spent a lot of time working on the writing section, so that went up, but math and reading went down).</p>