Worth applying to Stanford?

girlynerd
Wed, 01 Jan 2014 00:46:49 +0000

I’m currently a junior trying to decide whether my chances are good enough to justify spending $90. Thanks in advance for any advice.

GPA: 3.93(uw)/4.55(w)
Rank: 10/255 (Top 5%)
SAT: 2160
CA resident
White female
Public School

Course Load (school doesn’t offer much):
Junior - AP English Language, AP Chemistry, Honors Physiology, Honors Pre-Calc
Senior - AP English Literature, AP Biology, AP Calc BC, AP Government & Politics, AP Environmental Science

EC:
-4 years high school cheerleading team (2 years captain) & 1 year of competitive allstar cheerleading (Drove 1 hour to practice each way); Spent about 25 hours/week training, cheering at games & competing
-3 years on school paper (1 year Layout Manager, 1 Year Editor in Chief); Spend about 5 hours/week
-4 years of PYC (Local Catholic youth group); Spend about 5 hours/week
-About 100 hours of volunteer service (related to cheerleading and catholic youth group)
-3 year Interact Service Club Member

Work
-I started my own rather successful company a year ago in which I make cheerleading bows and sell them. Takes about 5 hours/week to make all my product, post to website, and ship orders.

I don’t have very many extra curriculars but cheerleading is truly my passion and takes up most of my time so i plan to highlight that throughout my essays.