Should I bother applying in a few years?

Slingpin
Mon, 27 Oct 2014 22:52:35 +0000

Hello, I’ve lurked the forum for a while, I decided to finally join and pose some questions I had.

I’m currently a Sophomore and I wanted to know if approx. 10 AP/H courses by the time of my graduation would be competitive for Stanford. I plan on taking a few courses at a local college in order to make more room for the majority of APs available at my school. Also my current ECs aren’t all that great, I’ve only done around 5 clubs in the past two year, but I hope to do a few more within the next 2 years. I’ve also seen that many people applying to Stanford have well over 250 hours of community service! Is that something I should be asking my guidance counselor for opportunities regarding? Oh yeah, also should I start taking AP/H English courses again? I dropped the courses I was in, as I had a strong distaste for them.

I really need some serious guidance here :P, also should I be taking the SAT, ACT and PSAT, or can I just take the SAT and do really well?

EDIT: How many letters of recommendation should I have?