<p>As an international then, your test scores seem a bit low. Congrats on the outstanding ec record and even the grades though. Let me put admissions into perspective. With regard to the SAT, according to this years common set data, the admit rate for 1800-2100 sats is about 4 percent. For 2100-2399 it is about a 8 percent acceptance rate.
The good: Stanford is one of the more understanding schools with regard to class rank. I’m attending under the 10th percentile, with a 3.8 GPA. Yeah…pretty horrible. Then again, I had a boatload of AP and a college class or two and recieved all my bad grades in unimportant classes, like civics and art. I don’t know how it is for international students, but when I explained my schools GPA system (we include a charter school that inflates grades and subsequently pushes down students in our rank calculations, complete lack of weighted grades, and the fact that we had 12 or so 4.0 valedictorians this year) it really seemed to help. Plus your class rank is actually good. Top 10% in their class have a 5% admit rate! That’s encouraging…I guess.
Finally, stanford has a plethora of essays and short answer questions that are very important to the entrance process. If you absolutely crush them, you stand a decent chance of getting in. Then again, a decent chance is probably less than 20%, even with outstanding stats.
Just temper your expectations by putting it all into context. You may be one of the top students wherever you are from, perhaps top 1%, but you aren’t applying and competing with the other 99 anymore. You are seeking a 5 percent chance within an accomplished and intelligent subset.
Good luck!</p>