<p>Spanish Male (Spain)
First generation
95 GPA 4.0<br>
5 AP's out of 8 offered, scheduling
3 College courses
Top 05% Ranked 13/300
ACT: 30 -97th percentile They'll look at this over the SAT's
SAT: bad ... 560 CR 560 Writing 620 Math<br>
SATII's: 640 MathI 610 US Hist. 600 Math II 540 Bio 540 Physics
Essays: Great!
Recs: Very Good- Great
Ec's: Best part of app. Band and chorus section leader, all state, 3 season varsity athlete, letters in each, captain in one, Boys State, Hispanic leadership institute, tutoring
Hook: I attended the Cornell Multicultural Visitation Program and met my college's assitant director of admissions. Also, i'm applying to atmospheric science (uncompetitive)</p>
<p>beefsteak, How does the username "birthofthecool" say he is black? 2up2down, I think you have pretty good chance bc other people told me I did and your stats are similar to mine.</p>
<p>Colombian Male, Dual-Citizenship but born in the US, live in SoCal, Catholic high school
Not first gen, although both parents were born in Colombia
SCEA Yale, then Princeton, Columbia, Swarthmore, JHU, GTown, UCBerk, UCSD, McGill, and Rice
Considering a choice between political science/international rels (Ethics, Politics & Economics w/ International Relations at Yale) or biotech (Chem Engineering w/ a focus in biotech at Princeton)</p>
<p>4.0 UW, 4.5 W
Tied for 1/250 (healthy competition between two best friends)
2380 SAT/36 ACT (780 CR)
800 French, Math II; 790 Chem (770 Lit and 730 Bio: E)
APs: 12 5's and a 3 (in CompSci AB, was attempting to qualify for the Siemens AP Scholar), taking 7+ this year (Econs, Govs, English Lit, Psych, and French Lit; considering attempting Cali State AP Scholar by selfstudying a few more, but that wouldn't go on the app)
Essay: Common App is excellent, Yale Supp I don't like as much but still fine
Recs: I don't really like assuming</p>
<p>ECs: I only wrote down 6 of a bunch because those were the ones I focused on:
School Theatre Club (Pres, short answer essay)
Community Theatre
Tutoring Club (Pres)
Peace and Justice Club (Pres, commonapp essay)
Debate (Varsity, supp essay)
Non-Varsity Track and Field</p>
<p>National Merit Semifinalist, a couple of debate awards, first place in an essay contest about computing, AP National Scholar after 11th, School Soph of Year and Junior of Year, various department awards.</p>
<p>Debate Institutes over the summer, 3 weeks in 2005, 5 in 2006
And I was the only Hispanic kid at UT Austin 07 TASP. Hell, I was the only kid from west of Texas</p>
<p>I hadn't had a chance to brag in ages, but it feels good to flex sometimes. Catharsis woo! Minus the art part, haha</p>