The Early Worm gets Eaten

Colleges & Universities Stanford University
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<p>Yet another EA chances thread</p>

<p>White Male at public school in MD
WGPA(w/o 9th grade): 4.77
SAT(1 sitting):Math 780;CR 800;Writing 660
SATII:Physics 780; Math 2 800
National AP Scholar after Junior year:
Physics Mech. 5
Physics E/M 5
Calc BC 5
Stat 5
Comp Sci AB 5
World Hist. 5
Amer. Gov. 4
Comp Sci A 4</p>

<p>Senior Year Sched: Multivariable Calc, Optics/Quantum Mechanics, AP European History, AP Literature/Composition, internship</p>

<p>Plenty of Honors societies, pres. physics club</p>

<p>Crew Team since Freshman year, was co-captain last year. I have two medals (1 gold and 1 silver) from the National Capital Area Championship Regatta. I am a coxswain</p>

<p>Last summer did an internship at Naval Research Lab working in the satellite engineering lab. Will get a good rec from my mentor. Currently doing an internship at the NIH working in the High Performance Computing and Informatics Lab.</p>

<p>Pit orchestra grades 10 and 12. Perform regularly with jazz quartet around the DC Metro area, including for non-profits and charities.</p>

<p>Took intro to elec. engineering at Johns Hopkins, recieved an A. I also attended CTY and took fundamentals of Computer Science and recieved an A.</p>

<p>Does applying SCEA improve odds at all or is it just so there is less stress during the school year?</p>

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<p>while i do sometimes say “if you don’t get in, i will cut off my right hand,” not for you. just competitive enough to keep you sweating until decision comes</p>

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<p>Definately competitive, but why the 660 in writing on your SAT? That’s the only real question mark of the application.</p>

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<p>I know the 660 sucks. I am getting a rec letter from one of my teachers who will vouch for my writing ability.</p>

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<p>Bob, i read an official stanford press release that said it may be harder to get in EA because they want to be sure that the student will get in RD, so its not significantly easier, the pool is just more self selective</p>

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<p>and way to totally cheat the non ninth grade thing and get the same gpa as me</p>

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<p>and this website seems totally biased, like i know just as much as you do but i’m telling you whether you can get in or not, its lame</p>

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<p>We’re not telling you whether you can get in or not. And if anyone does, or says anything like that, then you should be smart enough to know that Stanford is hard enough to get into that no one is a sure bet.</p>

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<p>Bob: The rec will help, and I don’t think you need to completely retake the test, but make sure not to give them any other reason to doubt your writing ability. A SAT writing score by itself probably won’t hurt you all that much, but it in conjunction with, say, a poorly written essay or short answer might, so get someone with a very critical eye to read over all the stuff you have to write for your application.</p>

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<p>As far as colleges are concerned… you have a 1580.
If u r applying to Stanford’s engineering school… I would say that ur chances are pretty good for early.</p>

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<p>We recently attended an evening meeting with representatives from Stanford, Harvard, Duke, UPenn and a 5th school in DC.</p>

<p>When asked about the writing portion of the SAT: they all said that their admissions offices are not yet paying any attention to the scores from the writing essay portion of the SAT. That it’s too new so they don’t have enough history with it to see what the scores mean etc etc etc</p>