Chance a URM for top schools PLEASE!! Will chance back!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Born in Mexico, raised in Mexico, Idaho, Indiana, Ohio.
Current school is on the foothills of the Indian Himalayas (since eleventh grade). Its a private school, but my great-aunt is paying for the whole thing, plus i'm on a scholarship. (nothing comes from my family's pockets)
other HS: okay public school in rural Idaho, okay public school in rural Ohio.
fluent in spanish!
American citizen! yay!
Parents both have graduate degrees.
Family income: $about 60,000 (my dad is unemployed since he got a terminal illness)
Rough stuff:
SAT CR: 700 M: 600 (i'm taking it once, hoping to get CR over 700 and Math around 650)
SAT II: Spanish, 760; Lit, 700; Bio, 700.
GPA. UW, 3.8 (little weird since I have switched schools a million times)
i'd say i'm in the top 8-15 in my class of 62ish
APs: AP Comp. Politics and Government, 5; AP English Language and Comp, 5.</p>

<p>Curriculum senior year:
AP English Lit and Comp
AP Euro Hist
AP USH
AP Environmental Science
AP Stats
(all grades are A- or above)
Hindi IV (skipped Hindi II and III and went from I in elevent to IV now)
advanced orchestra (1st chair clarinet), advanced band (principal clarinet), jazz band (1st chair tenor sax), indian music ensamble</p>

<p>i play the clarinet (since 5th grade), the sax, the tabla (an indian drum), and the violin. (submitted music supplement)</p>

<p>ECs: (not all at present school, some at old school)
FOUNDED Spanish club at my school in India (11 grade). Co-pres.
FOUNDED a program that takes high school musicians into the surrounding schools, hospitals, villages, etc. to give locals a chance to experience classical music which is HARDLY EVER possible in India
co-pres of debate club
speech and debate all four years
lots of community service always
RIDICULOUS amounts of theater at high school, colleges, community, semi-pro, and regional theaters, plus competitions
writing center coach--i tutor kids who have a hard time speaking or writing english about 2 hrs per week</p>

<p>other about me stuff:
i love languages, especially Hindi, Arabic, Spanish, and Sanskrit.
I love reading philosophy and reading in general
i love music and theater
i want to major in political science and foreign languages</p>

<p>essays: pretty good
recs: pretty good</p>

<p>college list:
REJECTED from Yale applied EA
U Chicago (SUPERDUEPREUBER DREAMMMM)
Georgetown SFS
Columbia
Middlebury
Emory-Oxford Campus
WashU in StLouis
Vassar
Kenyon</p>

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<p>wow, you’re so unique! must say I’ve never seen another applicant like you. so you’ve been rejected from SCEA, who cares? you seem like a person with great conviction and passion who’ll do great things in life.</p>

<p>admission really depends on essays, as well as recs. your SAT is low. what do you mean you’re planning to take them again though? if apps are sent in, it’s prolly too late, right?</p>

<p>because you’re such a unique applicant, you’re kind of set apart from others, idk how to really chance you like I would a “normal” person. just wish you all the best and hope that the adcoms like your story.</p>

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<p>I definitely agree, you are a very unique candidate and I think you’ll stand out for it.</p>

<p>For the schools I know anything about–
U Chicago - match
Georgetown SFS - match
Columbia - reach
Middlebury - reach
Vassar - low reach/match</p>

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<p>i think you are an unique applicant with a good shot. if it makes you feel better everyone i know that applied to yale got rejected SCEA and i haven’t heard of anyone yet who actually got in. work on your SAT scores, everything else looks perfectly fine.</p>

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<p>haha that’s what a lot of people tell me…hopefully gtown and chicago will like it :smiley:
thanks!</p>

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<p>bumpppppppp!</p>

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<p>bump again…</p>