Chance a Hispanic 2400 will chance back for real

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I have given this the most complete information possible so that you can tell me if I have what it takes for:</p>

<p>Vanderbilt (have a sibling there)
Yale
Emory
UVa (in state)
Stanford
USC
Princeton
Pomona
Harvey Mudd</p>

<p>I am taking a gap year and applying next year so take into account that I will have a full year of good grades (or at least pretty good) to raise my GPA and rank as well as that time to do gap year stuff and improve my extracurriculars. I think I can get some Ivy material EC stuff in that time.</p>

<p>Stats:</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Hispanic
School: Private prep school (not nationally ranked or any of that jazz)
Rank: school does not rank, probably top 10% maybe top 20% out of 40 or so. It will be affected by my grades from this year.
Intended major: probably science but could be a lot of things. Definitely not applying to engineering though.</p>

<p>Grades & classes:</p>

<p>Will have taken 7 AP classes by end of senior year.</p>

<p>9th grade: Honors Bio (A), Honors English (A), Honors World History (A), Advanced Algebra I (A), Spanish 3/4 Honors, Piano
(Note: advanced is like half-honors, spanish 3/4 is both years in one)</p>

<p>10th grade: World Geography (B), English 10 (A), AP Spanish Language (A), Algebra 2 with trigonometry (A), Analytical chemistry (A), Rock & roll band (A :p)
(note: switched from public to private school this year. New school does not have honors designation so all academics are supposedly considered honors. The chem and math classes are the more advanced versions designed to prepare one for higher levels)</p>

<p>11th grade: AP US History (A), Precalculus (A), Digital film (A), American literature (B), Physics (B), AP Chemistry ©
(note: this grade drop will be explained in an attached essay as a dip and counterbalanced to some extent by my hopefully excellent senior grades. My school does not offer AP English 11)</p>

<p>12: AP Physics B, AP Calculus AB, AP US Government, AP English Lit, Guitar, independent study music theory, research and practice project in audio engineering.</p>

<p>Also took online course in geometry (A) and a summer class in Economics (B+) at UVa</p>

<p>GPA not including senior year grades which will be all A's or maybe one B+: 3.88 weighted, 3.71 unweighted.</p>

<p>Testing:</p>

<p>SAT I: superscore 2400
SAT 2: Biology: 680 (taken freshman year) Spanish: 780 Chemistry: 760
US History: 740 Math I: 720
AP Tests: AP Spanish (5), AP US History (5), AP Chemistry (5)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Varsity and other soccer: 9-12
Cross country: 12
Paid work as web designer, photographer, copy writer (advanced work with a lot of time) : 10-12
Music production: 9-12
Piano
Academic and cultural camps in Spain during the summers (my dad was from there)
Spanish club - 9
Jiu Jiutsu: 12, and would continue into gap year
Producer and engineer for several bands, and more to come.
A few more I am forgetting that are not too significant</p>

<p>Awards etc.:</p>

<p>Ventures scholar
Ap Scholar
National Merit commended
National Hispanic Scholar
Honor roll - 9 (switched to private school after that and we don't have honor roll)
Spanish student of the year - 9</p>

<p>Hook: low income, minority, lived in foreign country (spain) for 3ish years, fully bilingual and bicultural (will probably discuss in essays)</p>

<p>Recommendations: math teacher for 10 and 11, extremely good according to counselor. Other one could be one of three teachers, at least one or two of which would be very very good. Counselor rec great too because it's a very small school.</p>

<p>Additional information:
I am going to ramp up my extracurriculars during the rest of this year and next, hopefully generating at least 1 or 2 outstanding things and something good from the gap year.
Also: I have a sibling attending Vanderbilt, if that affects my chances there.</p>

<p>Thank you very much. I hope this gets more responses than my last thread.</p>

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<p>Por favor guys! I need some input cause i’m making choices about gap year.</p>

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<p>Stanford Yale Princeton only high reaches right now even with hook because of ec’s
idk what you plan to do as your ivy material ec’s but i hope you succeed at those</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt - low reach
Yale - reach
Emory - low reach
UVa - high match
Stanford - reach
USC - low reach
Princeton - reach
Pomona - low reach
Harvey Mudd - low reach</p>

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<p>I think you’ll be accepted everywhere (For sure) except Yale, princeton, and Stanford. Those are all crapshoots, but I think you have a better shot than most applicants. I’ll bet you get into at least one of the 3
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1023030-chance-me-everywhere-ill-chance-you-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1023030-chance-me-everywhere-ill-chance-you-back.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I concur with Polyosophy! You are a strong applicant!
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1033742-chances-various-universities-top-tier-others.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1033742-chances-various-universities-top-tier-others.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thanks for your responses, especially the more critical ones. Since I have a year to do what I can to improve myself, I’m certainly not posting this to recieve affirmation from you all, but rather to find weaknesses in my app, such as the extracurriculars, as duly noted by deb83r.</p>

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<p>The main Ivies MAY be reaches, but that’s only because of the fact that hteir processes are practically random. You’re ethnicity and SAT scores are going to practically get you in anywhere (maybe an exaggeration, haha, but they’re definitely a HUGE boost)</p>

<p>The only thing that’s ehhh is you’re GPA, at least for ivies. Your GPA is actually really good, but you’re applying at some places where 4.0 is basically the norm.</p>

<p>See what you can do aobut that, but you’re actually a highly competitive candidate.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1038240-chance-me-non-ivies-o.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1038240-chance-me-non-ivies-o.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Vanderbilt: match
Yale: low reach
Emory: match
UVa (in state): in
Stanford: low reach
USC: match
Princeton: low reach
Pomona: match
Harvey Mudd: match
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1004549-chances-amherst-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1004549-chances-amherst-2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Vandy- match
Yale, Princeton- reaches (but they are for everyone)
Stanford-low reach
UVA- match, expect a scholarship maybe?
USC- match
Pomona- match
Harvey Mudd- match
Emory- match
Also, you are fluent in spanish but i hear that if a native speaker gets below an 800 on the SAT II spanish it looks bad…idk if you distinguish between being fluent and a native speaker but just an fyi </p>

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<p>Why are you applying to Harvey Mudd if not for engineering?
And it can’t be a match with Stanford a low reach. I’m aware of 2 students who currently go to Stanford but didn’t get into Harvey Mudd. Of course they might be special cases, but still.</p>

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<p>You’re hispanic.
In everywhere</p>

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<p>Hispanic = In everywhere with your stats. But you have to be and look legitimately Hispanic, not like" 8% from my great uncle who lived in cuba" kind of thing.</p>

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<p>My dad is from spain and i Look very hispanic</p>

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<p>Just saying that its not like they will see you before they accept you unless you do an interview.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt - reach
Yale - reach
Emory - high match
UVa - high match
Stanford - reach
USC - reach
Princeton - reach
Pomona - reach
Harvey Mudd - low reach </p>

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<p>I mean if you get interviewed they’ll obviously see you. If you were born in Spain or Mexico it would look better but to be honest you’re a great applicant anyway.</p>

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<p>Bumpitty bump</p>

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<p>^good chances everywhere bro and it would benefit your chances to use that gap year wisely. Good luck :)</p>

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<p>Bump. Also: Dartmouth?</p>