Chance African American male for top universities

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Colleges:</p>

<p>Yale
Princeton
Brown
Rice
Stanford
UCLA Berk.
UPenn
UChicago
Vanderbilt
Duke
Dartmouth
Georgetown
University of VA</p>

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<li>I live in Georgia. </li>
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<p>-Unweighted GPA (4-point scale): 3.5 (All of my classes have been honors or AP and in every year but freshman year I have done extremely well. I go to a Math, Sci, Tech school that accepts applicants from many different middle schools. I didn;t even finish prealgebra in middle school and in freshman year had to take Accelerated Algebra 2 and Trig., Honors Physics, and Honors Chem. i will explain this in my common application. I have made honor roll every since.</p>

<p>-Princeton& Stanford GPA (no freshman year): 3.75</p>

<p>-Weighted GPA (5-point scale) -- I will post this after I calculate it</p>

<p>-UC GPA (if you're applying to UCs) -- see this: 3.89</p>

<p>-# of AP/IB/honors courses: All Honors; 14 APs (5s and 4s on every exam)</p>

<p>-class rank/size: Unranked 99 people in my class</p>

<p>-SAT/ACT scores -- 2000; 700 Math & CR</p>

<p>-SAT II scores: 720 World History 730 US History</p>

<p>-AP scores: All 5s and 4s; AP International Diploma</p>

<p>-ECs -- Debate (Captain, many national awards won, all four years); Model UN (Officer, many awards won, all four years); Student Leadership Team for my county (3 kids selected from each school in sophmore year and they stay in it until senior year, we communicate essential leadership skills back to the student body and sponsor many initiatives); Beta Club(over 250 hours of community service); Key Club (Area Leader, all four years); Environmental Club (3 years)</p>

<p>-employment -- Internship in the economic development of the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, Internship on the cmapign of a senator</p>

<p>-honors/awards -- National and local Debate Awards for best speaker; National and local Awards for minning debate tournamnets</p>

<p>-short explanation on recs/essays: Great recs from my Debate team coach who has known me intimately for all four years. Also a rec from my counselor who I have grown to know intimately over four years as well. Great rec from AP US History teacher who I came to know intimately in junior year. My essay will be about either my mentorship with CNN worldwide president Jim Walton or how I came to value individualism.</p>

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<li>I go to the hardest school in my county and many fo my teachers were profes. My mother is a single parent and makes well under 60,000 so I will be applying for financial aid. She only recieved an associates degree and my father was a high school graduate. I have also been involved in many Cisco Telepresences with students in India and Mexico over a range of topics including globalization. Many of these telepresence were attendind by top profeesionals.</li>
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<p>UVA and maybe Vandy are your low reaches but everything else is pretty unlikely, mostly because of the SAT and GPA. U need to get your SAT up to about 2150 to be competitive or take the ACT and like a 32/33. </p>

<p>good luck though.</p>

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<p>Thank you. One question though, my counselor told me that most school look at only math and cr sections. For that my score is 1400/1600. Does this change anything?</p>

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<p>Might be okay for Duke. Maybe not for Cal and UCLA. UC’s DO use writing scores. I don’t know about the others.</p>

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<p>Also, I was a US Page this summer</p>

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<p>Make sure you have some safeties on your list. Your GPA and SAT are on the low side.</p>

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<p>Many of the admissions offices of the schools listed told me that because of my circumstances coming into freshman year, they could understand a lower gpa and that as long as there is a steady rise, that things should be okay.</p>

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<p>Most of the schools on your list will require the CSS profile which will include your fathers income and financial information. Are you not going to throw in UGA as a safety of sorts, financial and otherwise?</p>

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<p>That still leaves your test scores. Have you tried the ACT? You might do better on it. You’ll have better chances if your test scores are higher.</p>

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<p>@ga2012mom, my father died when I was three. at all of the schools I mentioned, I wouldn’t have to pay anything because of my moms salary. I will probably apply to uga and Emory (my mom works there).</p>

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<p>@nne718, I haven’t taken act yet but I will be. ive only taken sat once so score could rise next time. thanks for your chance!</p>

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<p>I’m sorry OP, that wasn’t clear in your first post. Then yes, by all means you will be qualified for FA. My daughter is from an adjoining county to yours. She is AA as well and is attending a top school. Her SAT was not much higher than yours, and then did take the ACT and got a 33. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions.</p>

<p>Edit: Are you considering applying through QB? My D did that and got matched to her #1 school. Seven of your schools are Questbridge partner schools. <a href=“QuestBridge”>QuestBridge;

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<p>thank you so much, I will definitely message you because I do have some questions.</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>Dakotah, outside of GPA, I am extremely similar to you. Not just kinda - really really similar. It’s kind of creepy. Hahah</p>

<p>Good luck though!</p>

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<p>Dude your fine! I think everybody is missing the part where he said he’s an AFRICAN AMERICAN MALE - one of the highest URMs. You have an exceptional record and I believe you get accepted into at lest 3/4 of those schools…depending on your essay as well. There have been african american males who have gotten into Yale with 1800s on the SAT. The fact that you come from low-income and unstable background, overrides everything else. 2000+ SAT is fine.</p>