Do I have a chance at a Stanford PhD program, or should I save the application money? I just want to manage expectations.

I would like to go to graduate school at Stanford for Linguistics, but I have some concerns about my GPA. My undergrad GPA was a 3.62 cumulative, because I decided to take on a Computer Science major in addition to Linguistics. I struggled in the classes, and did mostly B work. My major GPA for Linguistics is a 3.97, and I have two papers currently submitted for review (one in semantics and one in natural language processing). I think I can get some very strong letters of recommendation from professors I have worked with, but they are not famous professors. Do I still have any chance at Stanford grad school with such a low GPA? Do they even look at applications with less than a 3.7?

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The Ph.D. degree in Linguistics offered by the School of Humanities and Sciences provides a unique environment where linguistic theory, multiple methodologies, and computational research not only coexist but interact in a highly synergistic fashion.

The department of Linguistics receives approximately 150 applications for the Ph.D. program each year, from which, 7 students are admitted on average. The department does not admit external applicants to the M.A. program.

The application opens in mid-September and the deadline to apply to the Ph.D. program is December 1.

There are no specific GPA minimum scores requirements for a Ph.D. degree offered by the department of linguistics.

Other application requirements are as follows:

An online application
Application fee of $125 is required.
Statement of Purpose
The Graduate Record Examination (GRE) General test scores are no longer required for admission by the department of linguistics.
The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is required of all applicants whose first language is not English.
Transcripts are required from all prior college-level schools attended for at least one year.
Three letters of recommendation are required.
A writing sample is required

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