chance an AA for next year

Colleges and Universities A-Z Carnegie Mellon 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>Do you think I could possibly get in?</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>bump…10Char</p>

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<p>Easily In 10char</p>

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<p>I feel like you made this up as a joke. If you don’t get in, I would be in such shock.</p>

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<p>haha… this is not a joke… but thanks</p>

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<p>I didn’t 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 the admissions officers will understand this.</p>

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

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<p>potential ■■■■■…</p>

<p>it’s posted in several other school pages…</p>

<p>Make up your mind on your GPA…your wrote “3.7 – although it might be a 3.6 or 3.5” followed by a subsequent post “…3.4…”</p>

<p>Sorry…■■■■■!!</p>

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<p>I changed GPA, because I think by the time I apply EA at some schools my GPA will be around 3.4, and when I apply RD later on it might be around 3.6</p>

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<p>Uh… even if she were posting fake stats, I don’t see how that’s ■■■■■■■■. It’s not like she’s intentionally trying to harass anyone by having good grades. :stuck_out_tongue: Unless you’re the type with exceedingly low confidence who wants to commit suicide after seeing that someone, somewhere might have a higher GPA than you.</p>

<p>Other than that, cep, your application looks like a surefire acceptance. I would aim for a university like Brown or Swarthmore where volunteering means a lot to the community in general. CMU is an amazing school, but volunteer work isn’t really our forte. You would probably find a better niche at Brown, and with your academic record, you have a very good chance of getting into the school (Brown has a ~13% acceptance rate).</p>

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<p>Actually…the OP has the same post in 34 separate threads all over CC!
However, the gpa or personal saga seems to change…it sounds made up, b/c depending on the school where she posts…there’s some other issue in the personal life she has to mention…the cousin, the mother, the aunt, the father…what!!! </p>

<p>I thought ■■■■■■■■ refers to made-up posts wasting others’ time…</p>

<p>I guess I don’t find her sincere …I only discovered a similar version when looking in the Stanford board…and then after searching on the OP-- I found so many posts - all of which had a new twist to her life story…and her gpa…</p>

<p>If even an ounce of the saga is true, heartfelt sympathies to the OP-- but my hunch is something just ain’t right …</p>

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<p>“all of which had a new twist to her life story” I saw the same story in each of the 34 posts…mind sharing the twist cuz I can’t find it</p>

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<p>sure…</p>

<p>we hear about the cousins, the chicago project, the relative lines keep changing…as does the gpa…</p>

<p>this was actually rather entertaining to read the other accusations of ■■■■■■■■ in most of the threads…</p>

<p>who the heck posts to so many threads…the whole thing is so fishy… in the Harvard thread she practically begs people to state she’ll be accepted by adcoms for what she has been through…it’s always the second post…so I think she plans to make it all up in her essays and is thinking she can get sympathy-admit points…</p>

<p>it’s entertaining and fishy…like I said, if it’s true, my heart goes out to her…but the presentation is coming across insincere and I don’t appreciate having my school’s threads mocked…</p>

<p>reality- you don’t write your life story about your parents in the common ap or supplements…you write about the courses and your experiences…no one wants a sob story…that’s for her GC to write about if at all…</p>

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<p>If it’s a fake story, it’s pretty wittily accomplished, although posting in 36 different threads somewhat diminishes the believability. However, as it’s not doing any harm to anyone, I don’t know if I’d classify it as ■■■■■■■■. Maybe just a sympathy plea. Or maybe she’s testing it out to see how believable it is before she puts it through an admissions process.</p>

<p>I might also mention all of the details in her second post (abuse, limited computer time, psychatric treatment, ill father, 4 relatives gone to college) would be very difficult to verify and an adcom would likely just take her word for it. Unless they were going to check hospital records or something, she conveniently picked out a schema of details that would be just plausible and hazy enough to string together into a convincing story. It’s not, for example, like a divorce or great poverty or debilitating illness or dead parent, which would show up on the student’s FAFSA and scholarship applications.</p>

<p>Of course, there’s a good chance that this is all true and honest as well, and that the student succeeded against all odds and is truly invested in going to college. If this is the case, then I’m ecstatically supportive. But you’re right, it is fishy, upon closer inspection.</p>

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<p>Everyone… I am NOT lying about my experiences. Whether you choose to believe me or not is strictly your choice. My guidance couselor is going to write something to the admissions officers about this, and my teachers will know the situation before they write a recommendation. I am not making any of this up. I would not waste my time making up lies for sympathy.</p>

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<p>I’m just curious… Why did you change from bi-racial to AA in your chance threads? Did you confirm somewhere along the line a definite advantage or disadvantage one way or another in the admission process?</p>

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<p>what major? sure, you’d probably get in. Depending on your major though you could maybe reach higher (for example, if you want to be an english major or a bio major or chemistry you could easily find better schools, if you want to do ECE or CS or Business or IS then CMU might be a good choice)</p>

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<p>I’m not a big fan of how you started the thread by saying “chance an AA”. Especially if what Elessar said was true</p>