r/GetIntoStanford

**Main question:**
**I know my academics are strong, but I’m wondering how competitive my profile is for T20s. My main concern is that I don’t have a major national award like ISEF/USACO/etc.**

**Demographics:**
Middle Eastern Male
Public school
North Dakota
Rising senior (Class of 2027)
Upper middle class
Intended major: Molecular Biology with a minor in something similar to computational biology

**Stats**
**GPA:** 4.41 weighted (top 10% no ranking)
**SAT:** 1520
**ACT:** 35
**Course rigor:**
AP World (5)
AP Bio (5)
AP Chem (4)
Self studied AP Euro (4)
AP Calc BC (no score yet)
AP Lang (no score yet)
APUSH (no score yet)
AP Psych (no score yet)
AP Stats (senior)
Dual Credit Anatomy & Physiology (senior)
Multi-variable calculus and linear algebra at UND(senior)
**Honors / Awards**

1. North Dakota All-State Orchestra — Bass Trombone
2. 2nd international Conference on advancement and healthcare and biomedical engineering research presentation acceptance (August)(looking to get published before application season
   \- Study on generative AI usage and adolescent executive functioning using TEXI
3. Science Olympiad:
   4th State — Chemistry Lab (Junior)
   4th State — Codebusters (Junior)
   5th State — Boomilever (Junior)
   5th State — Chemistry Lab (Sophomore)
4. Student Congress National Qualifier Finalist (2×) and 6th at state in house 2 (third highest division
5. Outstanding Performance — Trombone Quartet (Ensemble Festival)
   Honorable Mention — Trombone Duet

**ECs**
**Probably my most lacking in my opinion**
**1. Research**
Accepted to join UND Computational Biology lab
Independent research project in computational biology/cancer modeling (in progress)
conference research presentation
**2. National Honor Society**
President (senior year)
**3. Band Leadership**
Band Cabinet President
Band Cabinet member-at-large
Co-founded trombone choir freshman year
**4. Music**
Bass trombone
All-State Orchestra
UND Honor Band
Top jazz/symphonic ensembles in community
**5. Science Olympiad**
Chemistry Lab, Codebusters, Boomilever
Multiple state placements
**6. Student Congress**
State competitor
House 1 (varsity division/ 2nd highest division in conference) in junior year
National Qualifier Finals sophomore + junior year
**7. Speech/Debate**
State qualifier in Impromptu Speaking
**8. Clinical**
Accepted Junior Volunteer at Altru Health System
**9. School Leadership Council**
Selected through band nomination
**10. Soccer**
JV captain

**Schools:**

**Brown University**
**Case Western Reserve University**
**Duke University**
**Emory University**
**Harvard University**
**Johns Hopkins University**
**Princeton University**
**Rice University**
**Stanford University**
**The Ohio State University**
**The University of Alabama**
**The University of Texas at Dallas**
**University of Michigan**
**University of Minnesota Twin Cities**
**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill**
**University of North Dakota**
**University of Southern California**
**Vanderbilt University**
**Washington University in St. Louis**
**Yale University**

**What are my chances?**

Demographics -
1st Generation Hispanic Male
Low-income background
Attend an uncompetitive Georgia High School <700 students

Intended Majors -
Primary - Mechanical Engineering
Secondary - Industrial Engineering

Academics -
GPA: 93.4 UW/95.080W
Class Rank: 19/166
SAT: 1260 (650 M/610 RW) School Average is 989

Coursework/Rigor -
No APs (2 offered at my school)
4 DE Classes completed and 6 more planned
Honors: 10
Notes: Planning on taking DE Pre-cal and DE Calc I

EC’s -

Beta Club - Member
Competed in a group Engineering competition at the state level with no placement.

SkillsUSA - Member

TSA - Member

Varsity Tennis- 2 years on the varsity tennis team and a 3rd planned

Varsity Marching Band - Trumpet, Member, No leadership position although I was placed at 1st chair throughout most of my time, participated for 3 years

Concert Band - Trumpet, No leadership position,
participate for 5 years, 1st chair throughout 3-4 years, Auditioned and was admitted to ~6-7 honor bands district, county, and region level(never placed below 5th chair)

Awards & Honors -

Falcon Elite 3rd Year Honoree - Awarded for three consecutive years for maintaining a 95 or above cumulative average while completing 10–20+ hours of community service annually.

Highest Average in Essentials of Healthcare - Earned the number one academic rank out of all students enrolled in the healthcare course based on final cumulative grade.

Laurens County Schools Honor Band Certificate of Achievement —
Selected via competitive audition to perform with the top student musicians across the county school district.

Sound of the County Marching Band Invitational Festival — Regional
Earned consecutive "Superior" ratings (the highest possible marks) in both the festival and competition categories as a member of the Marching Band of Gold.

Marching Band of Gold Service Award (Year 3) — School
Recognized for three years of dedicated service, leadership, and performance contributions to the high school marching band program.

Essays - Heavily family oriented, childhood, how my cousin and grandparents inspired me

School Context -
I attend a small public high school in Middle Georgia, with a relatively small student body (<700) and limited advanced academic density. My school does not have the same level of competitive pressure or opportunity as larger magnet or suburban schools, so I’ve taken some of the most rigorous courses available to me and performed well in that context

School List -
Reach: Georgia Tech (Top), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Vanderbilt
Match: University of Georgia
Safety: Georgia State University, Kennesaw State University

Title

im an incoming freshman at brandeis uni this fall and planning on applying to t20 schools next year as a transfer. For context I was waitlisted and rejected at stanford for UG admissions.

Im planning on applying as a Math / Econ major and I wanna know whether this rigor is good enough for the fall semester.

FYS - English (Compulsory)

Math - Honors Multivar Calc ( got placed here through the placement test and theyre letting me choose between multivar or linear algebra )

Microeconomics theory - core class required for econometrics

Quantum Mechanics 1

This will let me get 16 creds. Should I add another class or js take these?

Hey everyone, i am an international student who got accepted to penn state, the university is good but I want to go to stanford, i have full 100/100 gpa no sat and i have some extracurricular activities, so as 1 prize tech related and 1 Participation in a local research competition. What do I need to do in the summer so i can get accepted to stanford

As a rising senior, I have done a lot of entrepreneurial-related projects, but practically no experience with research.

1530 SAT Superscore, 35 ACT (35 Math, 36 Reading, 34 English, 32 Science though 💀 )

Grade: 3.9-4.0 GPA UW, Homeschooled but took AP Micro/Macro + Stats with 5s, and taking classes at local community college, I'd say decent rigor; Calc 1 and 2 taken.

For Projects:
-$100k+ Revenue Business by 16, solo-founded the digital enterprise at 14 (summer before highschool) during Covid to support my family. Reached $10k/month last summer
(Although this isn't the reason we're high income, we were lucky to have some good investments and growing assets)

-Top-rated seller on ebay with 2k+ Items sold and 100% positive feedback. Decent sized seller in other platforms as well.
-Founder of online communities with 6k~ members with fusion between gaming and e-commerce. Partnered with 400k+ member server and hosted events and offered free middleman services to facilitate trades and deals between members.

-Co-lead for student led Nonprofit helping over 300 kid entrepreneurs and having cumulative 2000 attendees at business fair events.

-Social Media Channels 5k+Subscribers YT (gaming related though, but used as marketing for my business).
-5k+Followers on TT (Personal brand and basically just authentic yapping)
-Internship at Sequoia funded startup in marketing. (No noticeable contributions except ~40k+ views but learned a lot)

-Also won best startup and a $500 grant from a small entrepreneurial summer camp hosted by Wharton Graduates

-National finalist in Homeschool Speech and Debate league (STOA), 5th Place in Original Oratory, and won many local tournaments in OO and coaching my club.

-(Not sure if I will put this on EC list, but:) As a freshman, led a dev team of 4, With frontend, 2x backend, and UI designer for a for fun project that allows for people to stream anime for free, made a free API in the project's community discord server of 500+ members that allowed other people to use our code and make their own websites. Currently contemplating whether this is a good project I should add for leadership experience, although I no longer keep the website up and running cuz it costed $40 a month to manage account for 6k visitors daily on average, and since I was young, I was kinda bad at monetizing it.

What are my chances for Stanford, MIT Sloan, or the Ivy Leagues (Specifically Upenn Wharton and Cornell)

I'm also planning to apply to Babson, UW Seattle, UC Berkeley HAAS, USC, UCLA, NYU, and other schools that have resources for entrepreneurs.

I'm building a selective student-led AI research lab focused on tackling ambitious problems in machine learning and artificial intelligence.

The goal is simple: build research that can compete at the highest level and develop projects suitable for submission to premier AI venues such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, JMLR, Nature Machine Intelligence, and Cell Press AI when they meet publication standards.

I'm currently conducting research with collaborators at Yale, Harvard, MIT, Stanford, and the Broad Institute, with one published paper and multiple research projects currently in progress.

We're looking for highly motivated students with strong coding and mathematical backgrounds who want to do real AI research, contribute to open-source projects, collaborate with other talented researchers, and gain experience writing publishable research.

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hi everyone,

I'm a Class XI student from India interested in engineering and AI. Over the past year I've been leading my school's robotics team and building projects in AI, embedded systems, environmental monitoring, disaster response, and healthcare technology.

One thing I admire about Stanford is that many students seem to combine technical depth with entrepreneurship, research, and interdisciplinary interests.

I'm not asking about admissions.

I'd love to know:

* If you were in high school again, what would you spend your final year doing? * Would you focus on one flagship project or continue exploring multiple interests? * Looking back, what experiences prepared you best for Stanford?

I'd appreciate any insights from current students or alumni.

I’m stressing about college apps. My graduating class only has about 50 kids, and our school explicitly states on the school profile that they don't rank.

I have a 3.92 unweighted GPA. I'm definitely NOT in the top 10% because about 15% of my class has a perfect 4.0.

Will colleges penalize me for not having an official rank or the "top 10%" title, even though a 3.92 is still near the top for my school?

Thanks!

Hi! So I'm a rising junior and I'm looking for some advice as to how I can improve my application. To preface, I live in a kind of small town/attend a smallish public highschool in New England (if that's relevant).

Demographic: I don't want to share too much, but I don't have any hooks. My household's annual salary is less than 80k if that's relevant.

Intended Major: Public Health (pre-med track)

Standardized Testing: 1440 (PSAT 10). I plan to study over the summer to take the SAT. My school's average is 940 if that's relevant.

Academics: My UW is 4.0 and my weighted is 4.6. My school does not do class rank.

My course rigor for freshman and sophomore year are a little weak because my school only allows underclassmen to take AP HUG and AP World (I took both, awaiting my AP World score, got a 5 for AP HUG).
Also, you need to take prerequisites for all the other APs (like you need to take honors chemistry and biology before the AP versions). I've taken all honors for my prereqs.

My classes for junior year are: AP Lang, AP Calc BC, APUSH, AP Chem, and AP Physics 1.
It might seem like a big jump, but my school makes it VERY difficult switch out of classes you've been recommended for.

For senior year, I'd ideally like to take: AP Lit (or maybe I'll do DE it depends), AP Stats, AP Bio, AP Spanish, and AP Gov/Po.

(There are also elective requirements that I have to take/other prereqs, but I don't think it's relevant to include them.)

ECs:

HOSA (VP): I lead bimonthly meetings, help form study sessions for the competitions, and have organized fundraisers to raise $200+ for NMDP. (I've been reelected VP for Junior year).

Red Cross Chapter (VP): I've helped organize volunteering activities such as making cards for senior facilities and hospitals. I was also the leader in a fundraiser in which we raised $500 to donate to our Red Cross region. (I've been elected as VP for Junior year, serving as treasurer sophomore year).

Student Government: Freshman/Sophomore year I served as my grade's representative. I've raised $300 dollars for prom, assisted in organizing school pep rallies, and co-lead sports tournament with ~300 students participating (around 40% participation school-wide). (I've been elected school-wide for executive board for Junior year).

High School Democrats (executive board): Don't want to dox myself but I'm a part of this regional club and served on the exec. board sophomore year. I have over 30 hours of canvassing and have helped in campaign efforts of local mayors. I'm also currently working on a U.S. senate campaign as well. (I also may have a paid internship with such senator, but this is not set in stone currently).

Cross Country/Indoor Track/Outdoor Track: I am a three season athelete and have been varsity for all seasons, all two years of highschool. I am going to be captain for XC this year. This is my biggest time-suck, dedicating on average 20h/week on practices and meets. I don't plan on running in college, but I'm a pretty solid athlete who medals in post season meets.

Part-time Job: I work at my local icecream shop year-round, which is also another big time-suck. Not much to say about this, haha.

Volunteering: I have over 200h volunteering, mostly with my town's Park & Rec and my town's local library in organizing and coordinating events such as local 5Ks and stuff for younger kids. Nothing too crazy, however. I also occasionaly volunteer at my upperclassman friend's non-profit.

NYU Summer Simons Program: I got accepted into this, so this is taking up most of my summer. Not sure if I should put it as an EC, but it's not a pay-to-play program.

Awards: I don't have anything crazy yet, unfortunately. The only thing I have is that I placed 3rd in my state for pathophysiology (HOSA) and qualified for ILC, but I couldn't afford to go.

Also got the National Recognition award from Collegeboard but that's nothing too crazy.

Hopefully I'm not forgetting anything. Is there anyway to improve my application? I'm not sure what school I'd like to go to yet, but I'd like to see where I stand as an applicant/what schools may be reasonable for me to apply to. Any advice to improve my stats would be wonderful!

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CS student here, planning on applying to Knight-Hennessy. Need some honest advice.

I'm pretty confident in the overall strength of my application... except for one thing that feels like it'll sink it before anyone even reads the rest.

My undergraduate GPA is 2.966.

The reason is that during my senior year I started working as an AI engineer. I interned with a company, they offered me a part-time position, and given the current job market, I took it. Looking back, that definitely hurt my grades.

The thing is, I spent most of my time building things instead of studying for exams.

In my third year, I was volunteering full-time with a well-known organization teaching machine learning and deep learning. I eventually took on a leadership role, organized hackathons, and even gave a lecture during a winter training program that my university requested from our organization.

The same year I graduated, I also published an IEEE paper.

Any course that involved projects, presentations, or discussions with professors/TAs, I usually did extremely well. My project grades were consistently high because that's where I put my effort. But when finals came around... I honestly just didn't study nearly as much as I should have. At the time, I genuinely believed (and still mostly do) that grades don't define your abilities and that employers care far more about experience and real projects.

Now I'm realizing that graduate admissions are a completely different story.

My question is: Would Stanford's CS department or Knight-Hennessy reject me purely because of my GPA before anyone even looks at the rest of my application? Do they have some sort of GPA cutoff or automatic filter?

The application fees are really expensive from where I live, so I'd rather know if I'm essentially throwing away money before I apply.

Someone suggested that I wait a year, complete a graduate diploma or pre-master's program in my home country, get excellent grades there, and then apply. The idea is that it would show I've academically matured and prove that my undergraduate GPA isn't representative of my ability.

Does that sound like the better route?

Also, if anyone has been in a similar situation, or knows of other fully funded Master's scholarships in computer science besides Stanford/Knight-Hennessy, I'd really appreciate any recommendations.

Thanks in advance. I'm open to any advice, even if it's tough to hear.

Hey guys!! I just ended 8th grade and I’m
Heading to high school next year. I was going to take this summer to relax and do nothing but to be honest I don’t want to Just sit in bed and do nothing all summer. so I want to find some extracurricular so I can to start building my college profile. What are some extracurriculars you guys recommend I can do this summer that can truly help me get into Stanford or other top universities?

Demographics: Asian male, California, large public high school, rising senior

Intended Major(s): Biology / Chemistry, pre-med interests

SAT: 1550 superscore

UW/W GPA and Rank: 4.0 UW / 4.81 W, rank 4/606

Coursework: Dual enrollment through Santa Monica College; on track for 3 A.A. degrees + GE completion. Projected 16 APs total. Took 4 APs freshman/sophomore year and got all 5s; waiting on 5 junior-year AP scores.

Awards:

1. YSA Everyday Young Hero — national youth service recognition for Code Blue’s emergency-preparedness impact
2. FBLA Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure — California State Champion, 5th Nationally
3. FBLA Parliamentary Procedure — California State Champion
4. USABO Honorable Mention — awarded to top 20% nationally (scored 82nd percentile)
5. FBLA Virtual Business Challenge — 1st CA Personal Finance, 2nd CA Business Management

Extracurriculars:

1. Founder & Executive Director, Code Blue HQ — scaled student-led emergency-preparedness org from original school chapter to 20 national chapters; collaborated w/ American Red Cross and partnered w/ Heart CPR + Tendercare; trained 200+ students in CPR/disaster prep, with numbers expected to grow.
2. Summer Research Intern, The Lundquist Institute — selected 1 of 23 from ~600 applicants; biomedical research intern studying potential treatment approaches for resistant Candida auris fungus.
3. FBLA Competitor/Mentor — (all awards are 3rd place and above) 4 section awards, 4 state awards, 3x national semifinalist, 1 national award; tutored 15 students in parliamentary procedure, presentations, and roleplays, helping produce 2 state champions and leading chapter to place 2nd in CA and 8th nationally.
4. VP of Outreach, Best Buddies — led CA/Philippines partnership raising ~$15k for a training conference and chapter expansion in underserved Albay province; organized recycling fundraiser generating ~$50/week.
5. Shadow, @ Free Clinic, Rheumatology — shadow physician serving mostly Spanish-speaking patients; observed rheumatology exams and helped with clinic charting/workflow.
6. COO / Secretary / Parliamentarian — help operate EdTech/student org platform w/ 60k+ users; launched 20-student ambassador program leading to 200k practice questions and 2k Instagram followers.
7. Chief of Membership — grow/manage 80+ chapters across 15 countries for firefighter lung-health nonprofit partnered with American Lung Association.
8. Founder & Game Developer/Designer - led 6-person game studio creating Roblox/Unity projects; 200k+ plays w/ 500+ peak concurrent users.
9. Author & Editor — wrote interactive financial-literacy children’s book; sold 500+ copies across 15 countries; donated to libraries/schools; outreach to 8 schools with 40% pre/post score improvement.
10. Pianist, MTAC Certificate of Merit — long-term piano commitment since childhood; completed 8 CM levels with State Honors.

Essays/LORs/Other: Essays not finalized yet, but likely centered around youth health access, emergency preparedness, research, and community impact. LORs should be solid from teachers/advisors who know my leadership/service work.

Main question: I know these schools are reaches for almost everyone, but how competitive does this profile look for Bio/Chem/pre-med? What are my biggest weaknesses, and what should I prioritize before applications? Also, I don't know if my application has a cohesive narrative/story, but what do you guys think?

Hi everyone,

I’m a 16-year-old student from Spain, currently finishing my 4th year of ESO (which I believe aligns with Sophomore year in the US system). I’m setting my long-term sights on universities like Stanford and wanted to get some feedback on my profile and where I stand.

Academic Stats:

• GPA: My average grade is an 8.3/10. I know that comparing Spanish grades to the US 4.0 scale is tricky due to grade inflation in the US, but I estimate that my GPA would translate to roughly a 3.7 or 3.8 UW (depending on how the admissions officer weighs the rigor of the Spanish curriculum).

Extracurriculars:

Sports: I play competitive football for a local club.

Judo: I’ve been practicing for 6 years and qualified for the Spanish National Championships (Campeonato de España).

STEM/Tech: I participated in the Math Olympiad. Additionally, I am a self-taught programmer (Intermediate C++ proficiency) and have been working on hardware projects, specifically involving ESP32 microcontrollers and Arduino.

I know that for schools like Stanford, "good" isn't enough—they look for exceptional talent or unique impact. Given my current background, what are my realistic chances? More importantly, as I head into my last two years of school (Bachillerato), what should I prioritize to actually stand a chance? Should I focus more on deepening my technical projects, or is there something else I'm missing?

Any advice from current students or alumni would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

SAT: 1590

GPA: 3.9/4.0

AP Coursework: 5s in AP CSA, CSP, APHUG, AP WORLD, APUSH, AP PRECALC, AP PHYSICS 1, AP CALCULUS BC, AP LANG, AP STATS, AP BIO

Awards:

1. ACM Turing Award

2. Nobel Prize in Physics

3. Nobel Prize in Chemistry

4. Nobel Prize in Econ

5. IEEE John von Neumann Medal

6. Grace Murray Hopper Award

7. Fields medal

8. IMO Gold Medal

9. Hertz Fellowship

Height: 6'3

Is anyone willing to chanceme for stanford rea on DM? It would be greatly appreciated!

Rising Senior
Major: Bio (maybe bioengineering but prolly not)

Demographic:
Mid-High Middle Class SoCal Asian Male
Kinda Competitive High School

Academics:
4.00/4.42 W/UW GPA (maybe will be 4.44 after 1st quarter? Valedictorian is 4.6 for reference)
SAT: 1570 Super score (800 Math/770 Reading)
1 CC College Heredity Course (got an A) | idk if it counts as DE tho bc i didn't do it w/ my school

7 APs rn, will be 11 | 3, 4, 4 across 10th 11th, and 12th grades | 3 5's so far and the next 4 will be 5's i'm pretty sure | Bio, Calc AB, World | Calc BC, Physics C: Mech, Physics C: E/M, Chem | APEL, Gov, Stats, Art History

Spike/Wow-Factor: 2 of my research experiences are strongly related (Cryo-EM). one is like the wet lab beforehand and the other is the dry lab analysis, so I'm big on Cryo-EM basically. hopefully that narrative carries me somewhere. My other science-y ECs are also vaguely related?? environmental stuff? Boy Scouts, iGEM, Aquarium Volunteer, etc. the Wet Lab research is also plant proteins in a strong environmental context

ECs:

1+ year wet lab intern at top 10 global NPO research institute. Started June 2025; went ~15 hours weekly over summer and ~5 hours weekly during school year. Grow bacteria, transform bacteria, express protein, purify protein, make SDS gels, make buffers, other molecular bio stuff. No publication bc both projects won't be done till i graduate college lol. All the work culminates into cryo-em analysis, but I don't do any of that work

UCSB SRA Track 7: molecular vision. Cryo EM research. hopefully we can get the work published in a HS student journal or sum.

Aquarium volunteer giving talks and leading touch tank experience. will have ~125 hours by the time REA is due

iGEM Outreach VP, organizing service events and regularly teaching lessons at elementary schools. Planning a project surveying community impacted by pollution from drilling.

Boy Scouts of 7 years; SPL, ASPL, Troop Guide, diff types of Instructors. Did SPL while all the adults got suspended for something and had to lead everything. Troop of 100 scouts ish. Getting eagle scout in a month

Eagle Scout w/ project for aquarium's education department. ~200 hrs total work for it? fundraiser w/ it

Science Olympiad Student Coach and Treasurer. I only have 2 regional medals lmao but 3/4 teams I coached for water quality medalled for regionals. Manage like 10K in money anually

Peer Counseling President doing service and wellness events across school. Also manages tutoring program w/ NHS execs

NHS Vice President managing all club service events and tutoring program w/ peer counseling president

Top 5 Public School neuroscience research internship. 2 month long thing in summer 2025 where I wrote a lit review and did data analysis w/ R for alzheimer's research

Awards:
AP Scholar w/ Distinction
Eagle Scout

Hopefully UCSB SRA post-program publication
idk what else lmao

I'm praying my essays can push me over the edge, but am I even on the edge for Stanford Admits? Ik my stats are good enough but my spike is week and i have no awards. sooo could those essays make a good enough difference??

I'm also applying to Harvard, Brown, Rice, Emory, UCs, maybe Columbia, UPenn, and Yale

Grade: Rising Senior
Major: Electrical Engineering

Demographic:
upper mid class/socal asian female
pretty competitive public high school

Academics:
3.98ish(one B)|4.4 W|UW GPA (i think it will be about 4.47 when I apply)
SAT: 790 MATH | still working on reading and writing part...

9th: AP CSP

10th: AP CSA, AP Precalc, AP Calc AB, AP Bio

11th: AP Physics C: M, AP Physics C: E&M, AP Calc BC

12th: APEL, AP Chem, AP Stats

3-4 5's (including 11th)

other engineering classes from my hs: Digital Electronics, Honors Principal of Engineering

I also have 3.83 gpa at community college and I took these courses: C++/Object-Oriented Programming, Data Structures, Programming Fundamentals II, Linear Algebra, Calculus/Analytic Geometry 2nd

ECs:

- SHTEM - stanford EE internship this summer (selected one of 16 students) --> i'm getting letter of rec from my professor and plan on publishing the paper

- ucsd map program; about k-12 ai curriculum; actively in use in local middle schools (presented the poster at CCSC conference which is a university level)

- NASA Data Science Analysis and Scholarly Research Paper Writing @ george mason university --> published a paper (ML to to classify exoplanet candidates)

- independent research published (ML to predict possible MBTI based on textual data)

- EDGE @ UCSD

- individual research project @ Yonsei unviersity (learned basic ece concepts)

- FIRST FRC Robotics Team (electrical & software team member)

- girls who code club - president

- National honors society - president

- quantum mechanics club - president

- peer counseling - director of operations

Awards:
- usaco plat division

- National academy of engineering writing contest finalist (about accessibility of using technology to people with disabilities)

- congressional app challenge special recognition

- 2 international piano award (1st place)- it's not that much competitive i think

Volunteer

- compassion international: translating letters from english to korean

- gentle keys: playing piano at local senior livings

- robotics volunteering: teaching / mentoring youth robotics team

- teaching martial arts to kids with disabilities

I'm also applying to cornell, ucb, and more

stanford has always been my dream dream school and I really want to know if there's even chance for me.. and also for other schools that I'll apply

please also let me know what my weaknesses are and what I can do for the time left! thank you!!

I'm applying for electrical engineering in the upcoming application season, and wanted to know if I should apply REA to a top school like Stanford or Princeton. I'm definitely top 5 in my class, and have all the stats (1540 SAT, 9 APs, etc.). My activities are also good in the context of my area (national math competitions, research on power storage and AI, built a customized badminton feeding machine). I'm just curious whether REA could potentially benefit me, and if I should do it then.

Hey, rising senior very nervous. Also, I swear, upon my mother's soul, that I will return upon this reddit comment section and award those who gave the closest results. THX!

Ethnicity: Chinese

Class: Upper Middle Class( will NOT qualify for Need-Based Aid)

Gender: Female 🥇

State: Texas!!!

School: Somewhat competive big public school

GPA: 3.95 UW(3 Bs in math across 8th grade, 10th, and 11th :((((((); 4.8 W (hip hip hooray)
CR: 6/710
SAT: 1590

MAJOR: Political Science with (hopefully if the chud life doesn't get me) a minor in Asian American studies

APs: Ive gotten all 5's so far, but I'll probably get a few 4's for junior year APs. Took 8 Junior year, will have taken around 24 APs by the end of Senior Year.

ECS:

1. Founder of International Lit Magazine: international literary magazine amplifying Asian voices; 150+ member global team across 20+ countries; directed publication of 6 issues, readership of 50,000+ across 25+ countries; received 5,000+ submissions
2. Founder of a Voter Guide nonprofit: Received in Grant/Fundraised $26k+; distributed 10,500+ multilingual voter guides in 6+ languages across 400+ libraries in 11 states; launched 10+ state chapters. 
3. Youth Advisoary Board Member of Mental Health Nonprofit: Lead the development and promotion of youth-informed mental health curriculum resources that reached 100,000 students across 32 states and 5 countries through conferences, summits, and partnerships with 100+ school clubs. 
4. Youth Council Chair of local LWV: Represent 190,000 youths in policy discussions with the [BLANK] county; organized voter registration drives and voter engagement activities, reaching over 500+ people 
5. Co-Leader of a Public Safety Commitee of my CITY"s Youth Ambassador Program: Represent 184,000^(+) K–12 students in [city] by contributing youth perspectives to municipal policy discussions and city board decision-making; lead development of anti-bullying/public safety video distributed to 1,500^(+) campuses across [city]; selected 2/60 to present in the National Youth Employment Coalition Conference
6. Congress Captain: Oversee 20+ members of the Congressional Debate team; organize weekly meetings and practices; trained 4+ members to qualify for Texas State for Speech and Debate
7. Research Intern: Assisted [BLANK] with research on how public policy influences youth civic engagement; Compiled and analyzed 1,000+ data points in a meta-analysis evaluating the effects of Medicaid expansion on youth civic engagement
8. Selection Commitee of ____: Got chosen out 10/2500 Fellows to be part of the Selection Committee choosing next year’s fellows; worked with executives at [BLANK!!!] discuss, grade, and rank applications. 
9. Parks and Recreations Intern for my CITY: I JUST STARRTED SO IDK WHAT TO PUT HERE!!!
10. Adopt-a-Library Volunteer for my local LWV: Helped organize voter registration drives at [COUNTY] libraries; registering 150+ voters; distributed 2000+ nonpartisan voter guides

AWARDS(MY WEAKEST!!!!!)

1. NSLIY
2. I'll combine two pretty prestigious fellowships together; both are national doe
3. Quarter-finalist for Congress Debate at Harvard
4. National Merit Semifinalist 😛
5. top 5 at my state for citizen bee