<p>Half a dozen Stanford alumni in family (though not either parent).</p>
<p>ACT 35, weighted GPA 4.7.</p>
<p>Very good varsity HS athlete, not a recruit.</p>
<p>California resident, caucasian.</p>
<p>What do you think his odds of acceptance are?</p>
<p>Impossible to actually say without seeing more of his criteria and personality.</p>
<p>Honestly he passes the eye test and they would look at him seriously. However no one is guaranteed entrance even tho I think you are expecting that response.</p>
<p>You could have a million alumni from your family, but if your essays display a dearth of thought, you will still get rejected.</p>
<p>The Stanford connections definitely do help but its hard to tell without knowing his course load, ECs, essays and teacher recs.</p>
<p>Clarification of original request: course load is all APs for soph, jr & sr years; save for one required religious class each semester. Straight A’s. ACT score is 35. All AP tests are 5s, except for Chem AP test which was a 4 – but he didn’t take AP Chemistry, he scored a 4 with the book. Took one SAT II, received 800. Two teacher recs., one from P’ton alum, one from Brown/Stanford/Harvard alum. Both teachers (very experienced) will say he’s in the top 2-3 students they’ve ever taught. Extracurriculars center around literacy (he has founded a non-profit which engages older students to read to younger/less-able students).</p>
<p>I definitely don’t think he’s a shoe in. I’m just wondering about the odds. Feels like about 65% to me, exclusive of essays.</p>
<p>The numbers are there and ECs are outstanding, but typical for Stanford applicants. I would say maybe 40% chance, but who knows? Good luck to him, the waiting will be over soon enough. :)</p>
<p>what did he write about the impact of his EC? For example, how many hours of reading has the non-profit been responsible for creating?</p>
<p>In our school a lot of people create some non-profit about childhood obesity, save the whales, save the obese whales, disease X awareness, save the obese whales with diseases X, etc. Unless there are impressive results, I think the adcoms look right past these.</p>
<p>^hahaha i love your examples</p>
<p>yeah it’s too difficult to tell, just wait one more week and you will know for sure! my friend started a nonprofit and was rejected REA so idk.</p>
<p>I would say ec’s are weak for Stanford , but idk</p>
<p>You definitely seem to have the GPA and ACT score for it, but I don’t know about the rest of it</p>