chance for notre dame

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>it's my dream school! applied EA</p>

<p>Student:</p>

<p>Gender: M, Caucasian
Location: Northwest Indiana
College Class Year: 2014
High School: Public
High School Type: rarely sends grads to top schools (although one grad last year is currently at Princeton)
Will apply for financial aid: Yes - single parent, first generation college student, low income</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.00
GPA - Weighted: 4.40
Class Rank: top 1% (Will be #1 next semester - but when I applied I was 4/580)
Class Size: 580</p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 750
SAT I Critical Reading: 620
SAT I Writing: 730
SAT COMPOSITE: 2100
ACT: 31
AP Biology: 5</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:</p>

<p>Significant Extracurriculars: Work (35 hrs/week), Student Court, Student Council, National Honor Society, Science Olympiad, Spanish Club, Web Designer for various local businesses
Leadership positions: Work (Crew Manager and Crew person of the year - Chicagoland region 2009), Science Olympiad VP, Chaired events for Stuco
Volunteer/Service Work: Meals for Wheels, Beach Clean-up, Hospital Emergency Room Volunteer (4 hrs/week)
Honors and Awards: Trigonometry Scholarships and contests, Honors Honor Roll, ACES, Valedictorian
College Summer programs: Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Languages. 8-week long Spanish immersion courses in Ciudad Real, Spain</p>

<p>Senior Schedule: AP Calculus, AP Econ, AP Government, AP Physics 2 "C", AP Chemistry 2, AP Spanish 4, AP English 12</p>

<p>Academic History: I have taken the most challenging classes at my school, including a number of dual enrollment, honors, and AP classes</p>

<p>Essays were pretty decent, I've been told I'm an excellent writer. I wrote about my Study abroad trip and in the other one I wrote about my web programming skills and experiences</p>

<p>Recommendations are good, I have a few coming from a Biology teacher, a Physics teacher and an English teacher</p>

<p>Theres a few other ECs that I didn't list on here, but those were the most important ones I thought.</p>

<p>My major weaknesses are probably my race and test scores. Hopefully they are still solid though! I am hoping that my study abroad experience, first-generation college student..ness, essays and class rank will get me into my dream school. (Notre Dame) I'll be taking the SAT subject tests in January so hopefully I'll get 700+ on those (I plan to study like crazy)</p>

<p>Leave a link for me to chance you!</p>

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<p>You’ve chanced me already.</p>

<p>I smell deferral then acceptance. You’ve got a solid shot. Nothing over the top, but if I was a ND admissions officer, I’d think twice before rejection. Again, it’s a solid app.</p>

<p>Best of luck!</p>

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<p>i’m going to be a bit more generous. I think holistically…</p>

<p>vigorous involvement (from what i can see… not going to lie after chancing so many people large text is kind of a blur)
great Sr. Sched
median test scores</p>

<p>I believe that your FIRST GEN status is the slight defining factor that will get you accepted.
in CC terms.
Notre Dame = MATCH :)</p>

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<p>Thanks! I applied using CommonApp - do you know if Adcoms generally look at parent information on the app, or should I have mentioned that I was a first-generation student somewhere else in my application?</p>