Chance for Smith PLEASE!

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Maryland - College Park
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<p>Gender: Male
Ethinicity: Black/African-American(Nigerian to be exact)
Income: Not too sure but I know my parents can pay full tuition
Major of Intent: Business(Smith)</p>

<p>I currently attend the best public school in MD and it is also #56 in the nation (according to USNEWS). </p>

<p>VERY Competitive school</p>

<p>GPA: UW: 3.1 W: 3.5
Big upward trend 9th: 2.46 10th: 3.0 11th: 3.8</p>

<p>Freshman year- School I went to didn't offer honors courses for Freshmen</p>

<p>Sophomore year- 1st semester: 1 AP 2 Honors classes 2nd semester: 3 Honors classes</p>

<p>Junior year- 2 APs( AP psych(5) and AP Comparative Government(5)) 3 Honors classes.</p>

<p>Senior year schedule- APUSH, APES, AP Human Geography, Honors English 12, Honors French 3, Honors Calculus, Global Issues(elective)</p>

<p>SAT: 1680
ACT: 26</p>

<p>I honestly suck at standardized tests. </p>

<p>Recs: I'm sure they'll be good, idk if they really matter that much but my counselor said she would explain my freshman grades(I also explained them in my essays).</p>

<p>Essay:teachers and counselor said they were really good. </p>

<p>ECs-
Track and Field- 9/10/11/12
Tech Crew- 9
World Bank Teen Summer Internship Program- 11
Cornell Economics for Leadership program- 11
Muslim Student Alliance- 11/12
Black Student Alliance- 10/11/12
Rockettree Club- 11
Sent Children's books to a school in Nigeria- 11
Volunteered at the Department of Health and Human Services of my County- 10. around 74 hours
Volunteered at Clothing center- 32 Hours
Tutored Middle Schoolers- 8 or 10 hours
Assisted in Elementary school basketball activities- Around 20 hours</p>

<p>I will probably have 150 hours+ when applying. </p>

<p>Awards-
Won a grade improvement/book award at my school(Kappa Alpha Psi book award, I got a kindle )- 11
Won an African American award (non-school)
Won $250 in scholarship money (African American award) also non-school based
I've won a few Track awards (I do triple jump, i'm not very competitive but I've still won a few awards in events)</p>

<p>I've already gotten into perfectly good business schools(Fisher-OSU Smeal- PSU) so be as harsh as you would like. I just want to know if I have some in-state security. Thank y'all!</p>

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<p>Wouldn’t it be nice if our reasonably priced, in-state school would support us local students lol!</p>

<p>Congrats on getting into Smeal, it’s actually ranked better than Smeal … just $20,000 a year extra or so hah! </p>

<p>Waiting to hear back too from MD, it’s just frustrating how it seems all of these schools are preferring out of state students because of all that extra delicious money in tuition and fees :). Guess MD holds all the cards though because they know no body else in this State can touch them for their price. </p>

<p>Good luck! I’m in the same boat as you with mediocre test scores. I forgot how one test defines who you are as a student and person ;).</p>

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<p>What is your SAT out of 1600? </p>

<p>I am pretty sure Smith has a minimum 1300/1600 SAT requirement to be a direct admit.</p>