Chance an AA for next year

Colleges and Universities A-Z Tufts University
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<p>Gender: F</p>

<p>State: MA</p>

<p>Ethnicity: African American</p>

<p>GPA (unweighted)-3.7 (although this might be a 3.5 or 3.6)</p>

<p>GPA (Weighted)- 4.56</p>

<p>SAT: Reading, 800
Math: 760
Writing: 800</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activites: </p>

<p>9th, 10th, 11th, (and 12th for next year) member and violinst of the school orchestra
Copy editor of the school newspaper 10th grade
President and creator of my of high school STAND chapter (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur) 11th grade, and will continue till I graduate
Member of Tri-M Music Honor society- 11th grade, (and continue next year)</p>

<p>Interests in Volunteering: </p>

<p>One of the things that I am most passionate about is increasing the literacy rate for lower-income children across the nation. I am really passionate about volunteering, and am considering entering the Ameri-corps after college graduation for a year. I had tried to volunteer at non-profit organizations that were geared towards my interest in education and literacy, especially catering towards helping lower-income children in inner-cities. It is important for me to help these children, especially since I have a parent that grew up in a very low-income inner-city Boston neighborhood, and came out of the Boston public school system. I also still have family that live in poorer areas in inner-city boston, so it is close to my heart to help many of these disadvantaged children throughout the country.</p>

<p>Volunteer Work: (450 hours and counting)</p>

<p>Registration Coordinator for First Book, a non-profit organization based in D.C, which helps distribute free or reduced-priced books to lower income children across the nation. As a registration coordinator I had reached out to many different Title 1 schools, and after school programs that serve over 80% of low income children. To date, I have helped over 25 schools and after school programs including Washington D.C, New York City, and around the inner-city Boston area in Massachusetts, recieve free or reduced priced books. </p>

<p>Volunteer at an elementary school after-school program in my hometown, (11th grade and continue on in 12th grade)</p>

<p>Volunteer for Student Solutions, a non-profit organization based in North Carolina, which helps increase the literacy rate in children across America by providing literary and eduacational resources to schools in need. As a volunteer, I helped create databases of schools across the country that Student Solutions would reach out to to provide educational resources and materials to.</p>

<p>Volunteer for Nanubai, a non-profit organization based in India, which helps keep women and children in schools and India, and also helps increase the literacy rate among them. </p>

<p>Awards/Achievements:</p>

<p>Winner of First Book Registration Coordinator Challange</p>

<p>Presidents Volunteer Service Award- Gold</p>

<p>Congressional Award- Bronze Certificate</p>

<p>Congressional Award- Silver Certificate</p>

<p>Congressional Award- Gold Certificate </p>

<p>*The only problem is that I go to a really competitve high school where most people do well,( I have a class of about 360) I'm probably not going to be in the top ten percent of my class, bt maybe the top quarter, I'm not sure yet. Do you think I still might have a chance? </p>

<p>*I am also about to start my own non-profit organization called "Change for Changing Lives" that helps benefit low-income children in inner city schools and will raise money to help provide educational resources.</p>

<p>*Does it also help that my school is not diverse at all, and I'm one of the only African Americans at my school? Do colleges pay attention to that?</p>

<p>*I'm also a legacy student: My grandfather graduated from Tufts, and my cousin did a few years ago. Plus my father worked at the Tufts research facility in Boston for ten years.</p>

<p>Do you think I could possibly get in?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>Are you teasing us? “Do you think I could possibly get in?” Of course you’re getting in, unless your essay and recs kinda suck.</p>

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<p>Yeah, it’s hard to imagine how an application could be a whole lot stronger.</p>

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<p>some wiseguy is eventually going to come in and chant about tufts syndrome, but please don’t pay heed. what you need to know is that you’re looking like a strong applicant so make sure you keep your grades as high as possible for the rest of your HS career, take the hardest classes you can get your hands on and continue demonstrating commitment to your extracurriculars. </p>

<p>in the case of tufts specifically, you have to demonstrate an excitement about attending tufts or minimally demonstrate why tufts is not just another application on a long list but a community that you can see yourself thriving in (and conversely, a community that will benefit from having you). ‘tufts syndrome’ is basically a misconception born out of overqualified applicants who are rejected for failing to demonstrate any sense of passion or willingness to attend tufts. on that note, you are a strong applicant, but if you’re not serious about tufts, there’s always the possibility that you’ll be turned down. </p>

<p>good luck!</p>

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<p>I did not mention above that I have a complicated situation, and I hope the admissions officers will understand this. I have been living through child abuse for a decade, having a fatally ill father, and a mother suffering from a mental illness who has been through a pyschiatric ward twice, and maybe going on her third, plus having restrictions on the amount of time given for school work on the computer, so there have been many limitations for me throughout my life. I also want to stress in my essay that in my father’s family, there have only been four college graduates in the entire family ever, including 3rd cousins ect, therefore going to college and becomming a college graduate is a very important thing for me. As these are very difficult circumstances to have to have put up with throughout my life, I hope that Tufts will understand this.</p>

<p>My GPA might also be a 3.4 UW</p>

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<p>I’m sure they will. I will be floored if you don’t get in.</p>

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<p>Your story is very touching, very affecting. If everything pans out as you write, you should (!) get in, despite a GPA that is lower than the mean GPA, which Tufts traditionally accepts. I love that you’re clearly so bright and altruistic. As well, I would draw on your life, suffering/triumphs, in your essays for your essays are what give over the all-important, non-data part of you. I would imagine, as well, that you would be given a full scholarship.</p>

<p>Finally, I am so sorry about how hard and painful your life has been (but very admiring of your spectacular performance, thus far). if you are still enduring abuse, there are resources for you from Child Protective services (get the number from 411) to the admin./staff at your school. It is not okay for you to be abused!</p>

<p>Let us know how it goes for you, when the time comes. And don’t know if this is an added inducement regarding Tufts–but know that since Tufts’ inception, it has always admitted Jews, Afro-Americans, and women. Most top-notch universities and colleges cannot make such a claim.</p>

<p>I wish you the very best of luck!</p>

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<p>Yours is a compelling story that will resonate with any admissions committee. I am curious, however, why someone with a 2360 SAT would then start a thread asking for advice on SAT prep books. I am also curious how your weighted GPA could drop from the 4.56 listed here to the 4.17 on the BU thread. Whatever the actual numbers are, rest assured that you do not need a 2360 and a 4.5 weighted GPA to get in.</p>

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<p>I had originally posted a different GPA on the BU thread, because I did not find out my actual GPA until after I had originally posted the Tufts thread. The BU thread is the one that is more relevant than this gpa that I had posted on the Tufts thread one month ago.</p>

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<p>bummmmmmmmppp</p>

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<p>Do you people really not recognize a ■■■■■ when you see one? LOL. Nice.</p>

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<p>fallenchemist… I am not a ■■■■■… these post are NOT fake… believe me, I would not waste my time posting fake information</p>

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<p>Your GPA keeps changing (someone with a 2360 SAT can calculate their own GPA accurately), you post all over the place, your story is, well, incredible to say the least, and you got a 2360 on the SAT’s but want to know about prep books? You have a dying father and mentally ill mother yet you have time to start world-class charities. If I am wrong then I am wrong, and you and others are free to ignore me. But I choose not to abandon common sense, and this seems ridiculous. Looking at other threads I am not the only one that thinks so. Weird idea of fun.</p>

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<p>Fallenchemist, Iwanted to know about prep books, because most of my friends have not taken the SATs, and I’m looking to help them. Also, it’s not a “world class charity” that I was about to start. I have not even started this yet, and will not know if it is something I will have time to start in high school with everything that is going on. My story is absolutely true, you can believe whatever you choose to believe, but I am not posting false information.</p>

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<p>This is excellent advice. Please talk to your guidance counselor. And never assume that you are anonymous when you post here.</p>

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<p>coase, I have talked to my guidance counselor about the situation.</p>

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<p>And in this day and age, no one has brought in the authorities?</p>