Will I be able to get to a good college like Stanford or Yale with this?

Question

I have a 4.45 GPA, take almost all AP's and Honors, made varsity in 4 sports, in the marching band. I am also an officer in the Rotary, Loins, Key community service clubs, am founder of philshopy, CSI, cless, and Star Gazers club. Am in JROTC and am the third highest ranking leader in my district, attended a leadership conference, and in the schools Code consule with is a unique organization for a few students to judge our peers when they break the Code rules. And I also have a 1900 SAT score. Will this get me to Stanford?

Answer 1

Stanford admissions committee members will get you into Stanford. There's not a magic formula. You could have all the qualities that other students have who are admitted and because they only have so many slots available, you may not be admitted. Things like the strength of your recommendations and your personal essay also factor in. What about where you come from? Did you come from a Title 1 school? Inner City? My husband teaches at an inner city school and several of his students have won full scholarships to Vanderbilt, MIT, and Yale. (Keep in mind, one of his students missed a few weeks of school because she was shot outside her apartment in a drive-by also.)

With those stats, you should be able to get into a good school. Will it be an Ivy League school? I dunno. Will it be Stanford? Dunno. Apply to a lot and you'll get in somewhere, but if it's not your top choice, just remember that everyone you're competing against to get in has your same stats or better. They can only accept so many. Good luck.

Answer 2

Sounds pretty good until you get to the SAT part. :( What happened? I guess you'll be taking those over, eh? I also notice that you made several spelling errors in this paragraph. Maybe that is of no importance at all, or maybe it says something about your academics.

Stanford is competitive -- there are only 1500 seats and 15,000 will apply. Pretty much the same thing as you get at the Ivies, Duke, UChicago, MIT... The basic point to remember is that there is no guarantee about getting into these extreme elite schools. Even if you had a 2250 SAT there is no CERTAINTY that you would get accepted. Thousands of other kids applying have equally good credentials as you. So, part of the mystery of college admissions is the intangibles - an interviewer who's having a bad day, Bling! You're out. Or maybe they just want one more kid from your neighborhood. Bling! you're in! Maybe there are two future Rhodes scholar genius kids who decided to write the same essay topic that you did and yours looked silly by comparison. All you can do is what you can do.

Overall, your credentials definitely put you in the right range, so I think you should go for it. But have a few acceptances from good "A minus" level schools like USC or UCLA ready just in case.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Your SAT score is kind of low, but the colleges *SAY* that they don't put too much weight on that.
Your extra-curricular activities are very strong in the creativity and service areas, but slightly lacking in the academic areas, though Star Gazers sounds like something in that area. The JROTC will help you a lot. Be sure to put a lot of emphasis on your leadership skills in your essays, not only in JROTC, but in founding those clubs as well.

Summer activities are also quite crucial. Hopefully, you have been doing things like jobs(not like fast food...) or internships or volunteering over the summer, which you probably have, instead of hanging out on the beach and endlessly partying. I am at top 10 national university working on a research project in a Psychology and Neuroscience lab for the summer. The past summers, I volunteered at a small hospital and received two Mayor's Awards (small hospitals allow far more patient interaction, less filing and stapling etc.). A lot of my peers are sleeping a lot and are generally yawny when I call them. I'm not saying to not have fun, but don't let yourself rot into a stupor either.
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So yeah, I'd definitely say that your strength is your extra-curricular activities. BUT I was just looking at the Common Application yesterday, and it only lets you put in something like 8 activities! Which to me is ridiculous. I half think that I did something wrong in the button-clicking process, but if that is not the case, I will be quite frustrated. I know they don't want a laundry list randomof clubs and minor awards, but 8?! I would say 15 as the limit...? A warning though, don't try to compensate for this small list by making your essay the list! Your essay is your essay, and it is very important that you focus on that.

Stanford: ridiculously selective. It is impossible to say if you "will" get in, but if you are a good writer and can play up the leadership roles, you have a fighting chance. Maybe think about one of the Claremont Colleges if you're California is what you want. They're are a few really top liberal arts colleges over there (Pomona!), and their consortium atmosphere makes it a large and small school setting at the same time. Though you might not have heard of them, many liberal arts universities are great preparation for most graduate schools (medicine and law included!). If you're looking for chart-toppers, here's a good list:
http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/t1libartco_brief.php
Not that I'm saying you're just going for big names or anything.

Yale: even more ridiculously selective. Same as above, basically. Also, enthusiasm counts! Charisma and dedication are some of the brightest hallmarks of the students that great universities look for. It looks like you've got that, too. However, Yale has even less of a guarantee unless you've got connections. There are also a lot of great lib-arts schools up in New England.

I think that you would be pretty likely to get into a more local elite university, depending on where you are. A lot of New England schools don't really care, but if you're near, say, Emory, or maybe Northwestern, (Or Wash. U! Gotta love Wash. U...) you have a slightly higher chance of getting in, though you obviously won't have "in-state" tuition or anything like that.

Good luck in your college search...I'll be suffering this year too. My parents won't stop bugging me to study for SAT II's (Chem, Spanish, Math-undetermined which). Oh and I don't have a safety really, though....ok well good luck with YOUR search!

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Just apply and then see what happens. Honestly, the college admission process is a crapshoot. Some people with stellar stats don't get in, while some people with lower stats get accepted. Good luck.

Answer 6

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Answer 7

if you arent smart enough to figure out the answer to this question yourself, then no...stanford or yale is not for you