Chance a hispanic & first generation college student

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>-Hispanic female
-First generation college student
-current junior
-top 10% of class (my school doesn't rank)
-GPA: 4.25 weighted, 4.0 unweighted
- SAT: 1860 (first time. it sucks but i will retake)
- poor school in poor county in MD</p>

<p>Freshman year
-Geometry Honors A
-English 9 Honors A
-US History Honors A
-Biology Honors A
-Art A
-Keyboarding A
-Latin 1 A
-PE/Health A</p>

<p>Sophomore Year A
-Chemistry Honors A
- Government Honors A
- English 10 Honors A
- Algebra 2/Trig Honors A
- Newspaper (1st year) A
- Latin 2 A
- Spanish 2 A
- Psychology/Social issues A</p>

<p>Junior Year
- AP English Language A (so far)
- AP World History A
- Pre-Calculus A
- Physics Honors A
- Newspaper (2nd year) A
- Yearbook (1st year) A
- SAT Prep/ Term paper (required) A
- Latin 3 A</p>

<p>Senior Year (This is what i'll be taking next year)
- AP Calculus AB
- AP Calculus seminar (required)
- AP Spanish 6
- AP Psychology
- AP English Literature
- Newspaper (3rd year)
- Yearbook (2nd year)
- Political science/ Women's issues</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities/ awards:
-Editor-in-Cheif of our newspaper (11,12)
-Treasurer of Youth With Purpose (mentoring program) (11,12)
- NHS
- NSHSS
- Foreign Language Honor Society (Latin)
- Ecology club (10)
- Envirothon team member (11, maybe 12)
- yearbook (11,12)
- mock trial (11,12)</p>

<p>Summer activities:
-Mock trial program @ UCLA last summer
- Hispanic Youth Symposium @ Towson U last summer
- will possibly be volunteering @ clinic in El Salvador this summer
- volunteered at hispanic college info. program @ UMD: CP</p>

<ul>
<li>recs will be great</li>
<li>essays will be good</li>
</ul>

<p>Please chance me for my reaches:
Dartmouth
Duke
Georgetown
Brown</p>

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<p>keep up the great grades</p>

<p>keep up with all of the involvement</p>

<p>devote the summer or something to bringing up your SATs (2100+). this shouldnt be too hard considering an 1860 isn't that bad for first try if you didn't prepare much. </p>

<p>and none of those schools will be out of your range, especially because you're Hispanic. gl!</p>

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<p>Well you can't exactly give yourself a poor hook, since you have done ALOT over the summer apparantly. #1 and 3. Your SAT is a bit low for all of these. Get it up 200-300 points, and you'll have a crapshot, I'm sorry to say. You're a good candidate, but not a competitive one. However, the URM might come into play, I don't know what scale it will affect you though.</p>

<p>All are high reaches, I think you have the best shot at Brown.</p>

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<p>i went to the mock trial program @ UCLA on full scholarship and my mom's parents are from El Salvador. Her sister works at a clinic there and i'm planning on volunteering with her. I'm lower middle class at best.</p>

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<p>If you get your SATs up to 2150+, you will be a very strong candidate for all those especially because you are a Hispanic Female.</p>

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<p>First generation+URM+4.0+2100 SAT+decentish EC's+decent schedule=In at all of those.</p>

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<p>you got a great chance</p>

<p>Im a hispanic student as well</p>

<p>but my SAT is low</p>

<p>but write a good essay and youll be ok</p>

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<p>With a 2100 you will have a good shot at getting into some.</p>

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<p>thanks everyone! i'll try to get my SAT scores up to 2100+. i better start preparing for the May one.</p>