<p>Please chance me for stanford, ivies, and georgetown!! I’m desperate to know if I have a chance!!</p>
<p>White Male
Catholic School California
GPA UW- 3.83<br>
GPA W- 4.5
Class Rank 2</p>
<p>ACT- 32
SAT- Awaiting Results</p>
<p>AP World History-5
AP US History-5
AP Chemistry- 5
AP English Language- 4</p>
<p>Senior Schedule
AP Physics
AP English
AP Gov/AP Econ
AP Calculus
Spanish 3
Religion</p>
<p>Extra Curriculars</p>
<p>Varsity Golf in one of the toughest golf leauges in the nation(all four years)
Freelance Writer for Newspaper(9)
Editor in Chief of Newspaper(10-12)
Key Club(10-12)
-Treasurer(11)
-President(12)
National Honor Society(11-12)
-Vice President(12)
Chemistry Tutor
Honor Roll(9-12)</p>
<p>Summer
(I spend my summers in Door County, Wisconsin refered to as the cape cod of the Midwest)
Sailing Instructor over the summer at a fairly large sailing camp in Wisconson
Very Active in racing sailboats
-In flying scot midwesterns I got 10th out of 45 boats overall and 1st in the junior division
-Won countless series races during a summer racing league
Taught myself to windsurf and started a business teaching windsurfing with the ultimate goal of popularizing windsurfing so that I could expand the business to renting and selling windsurfers when I am in college
Wrote a how to sail blog and how to windsurf blog complete with videos
-made some money off that</p>
<p>Any essay ideas? - Im a pretty good writer</p>
<p>Your EC’s are REALLY weak! I don’t see how you stand out from the other applicants. Are you applying REA or RD? I would suggest for you to apply RD.</p>
<p>You have as much of a “chance” as everyone else. Don’t listen to ^. He/she is probably a high school student who has a skewed perception of “how to get into [insert name] schools.”
Personally, I believe your windsurfing ability would add diversity to Stanford’s student body, unlike the rest of the 4.0 2400 multiple-club president applicants. Choose how to interpret this as you wish…</p>
<p>@StanfordKid3
Boy… then a LOT of people who have really “weak” ECs get accepted into Stanford/HYPSM while a LOT of people who have really “strong” ECs get rejected…There are only so many international competition winners and not all of them choose to go to these schools.
Also, what do YOU define as a “strong EC?” President of clubs? IMO/IOI/IChO/etc? INTEL ISEF winner?</p>
<p>I agree, StanfordKid has absolutely no clue what hes talking about. I highly doubt he has a good chance at even getting in Stanford himself (or is in stanford for that matter). Point is – use your e.c.s as a way to help you differentiate yourself. If your really in love with Stanford – go for the REA!</p>
<p>I have a feeling a guy named StanfordCS or something will come and post about how REA is bad soon… bahahaha (ignorance).</p>
<p>^ look, chances are, you have just as much of a chance as FS3900.</p>
<p>In other words, everyone has an equal opportunity to attend and an equal opportunity to be rejected (yes, even if you deem yourself to be all that)</p>
<p>And to answer your question, I think he’s unique in that he demonstrates passion with his windsurfing involvement (and “water activity” involvement)</p>
<p>@mitigated I define strong EC’s as an EC not everybody has. So, let me use your examples, for president of a club almost everyone has AT LEAST ONE leadership role in a club. Intel winners is a STRONG EC because not everybody can win Intel and it shows how brilliant you are. Therefore, it is my belief, that OP’s EC’s are not unique.</p>