Chance Hispanic Girl?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Schools that I'm worried about:
Georgetown U
Duke
UPenn</p>

<p>The Basics
Hispanic Female from Florida</p>

<p>Academic Background
Class Rank: Top 20%
Unweighted GPA: 3.70
Weighted GPA: 5.20
SAT Critical Reading: 800
SAT Math: 700
SAT Writing: 800
Combined SAT: 2300</p>

<p>Magnet School
Top 100 Schools per US News and World rankings
128 students per class year</p>

<p>Extracurriculars
Yearbook (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, during the school year)
Type: Journalism/Publications
Editor in Chief
4 to 8 hr/wk for 30 wk/yr
Details: Is an actual class but it involves a LOT of hours out of class, as anyone who has ever taken yearbook will know.</p>

<p>French Honor Society (10th, 11th, 12th, during the school year)
Type: Foreign Language
Officer, Treasurer, Secretary, or equivalent
1-2 hr/wk for 40 wk/yr</p>

<p>Quill and Scroll (11th, 12th, during the school year)
Type: Journalism/Publications
Officer, Treasurer, Secretary, or equivalent
2 hr/wk for 40 wk/yr
Details: Honor Society</p>

<p>National Honor Society (12th, during the school year)
Type: Academic
Member
1 hr/wk for 40 wk/yr</p>

<p>Athletics
Varsity Water Polo (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th)
Co Captain
12 hr/wk for 25 wk/yr (1200 hours total)</p>

<p>Varsity Swimming (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th)
Co Captain
10 hr/wk for 20 wk/yr (800 hours total)</p>

<p>Jobs
Swimming Instructor (11th, 12th, during summer and the school year)
2-12 hr/wk for 20 wk/yr</p>

<p>Self-Employed-- Babysitting (10th, 11th, 12th, during summer and the school year)
3 hr/wk for 30 wk/yr</p>

<p>Lifeguard (11th, during summer)
20 hr/wk for 4 wk/yr</p>

<p>Internship
Office of Communications with local city
-wrote article for magazine
-worked with film crew
-filed, helped out around office, so on and so forth</p>

<p>Community Service
Office of Communications (apart from Internship)
Various other places, a few hours here and there
(I know my community service is kind of pathetic, but I'm hoping to start a service project this summer, so hopefully that helps).</p>

<p>Thanks everyone!</p>

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<p>Work on community service, especially for a school like duke.</p>

<p>upenn- not sure. i feel like its a mid-high reach.
duke- if your essays are strong, probably match to high match
georgetown- high match</p>

<p>good luck :)</p>

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<p>As a Hispanic candidate, your SAT score puts you in the top few percent. How are your SAT IIs? Your gpa and rank are not great, but the fact that you attend a competitive HS may help. Your work record looks great. See this thread on the Hispanic Students subforum for some results from last year:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/hispanic-students/679897-college-class-2013-results.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/hispanic-students/679897-college-class-2013-results.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>entomom, the competitive high school thing is what I’m hoping for. It’s a fairly well-known school so I’m crossing my fingers that they take into consideration top 10% at my school is 12 kids, not 50 like at many schools.
SAT IIs, so far, Lit: 740, Math II: 660
but I’m retaking Math II in December, as well as taking Spanish and French, which I should do fairly well in as I am fluent in both.
Thanks for the link to the forum, definitely informative. </p>

<p>So what do you think? I interview well and I know that I nailed my essays, as well as got excellent recs from former tenured University professors, both of whom have doctorates.
The hook is obviously the URM, but I feel like I’m pretty strong in extra curriculars.</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>