Stanford or Ivy chance

finecon
Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:39:50 +0000

I’m going to be clear and honest, and not going to sugarcoat this response.

As of now, with a 3.4 GPA and a 27% class rank with no special ECs, I would have to say that you have absolutely no chance of admittance to Stanford, no matter what your SAT score would be.

That being said, you’re a freshman, not a junior. You have a chance to get that GPA up, be active in your extracurricular, and destroy the SAT/SATIIs/ACT. Anything’s possible for a freshman right now. If your goal is admittance to Stanford, one of the leading academic institutions in both this country and the world, you’re going to have to literally work your ass off. Your acceptance is definitely not impossible; nothing really is as a freshman. But it’ll largely depend on how much effort you put in. If you don’t put the effort in, obviously you won’t have a chance. My school, which sent five people to Stanford last year, didn’t have a single person accepted to Stanford this year. The valedictorian of the senior class, with a 4.0 GPA, 2300+ on the SAT, and multiple extracurriculars, got rejected from Stanford (he did get into Harvard though).

TL;DR: Your current stats are far from Stanford level, but you are a freshman, and anything is possible. Put your effort into it, and who knows, you might achieve your goals.