<p>School: Central N.Y. College Prep
Gender: Female
Race: Asian (1st Generation)
Family income: $20,000
Family backround: My parents never went to college. My Dad was a high school dropout.
Financial Aid: Yes</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7, 4.0
SAT: 2360/2400
SAT Subject: 800 History
ACT: 35/36
AP: US History (5), European History (5), US Government (5) </p>
<p>EC's
Co-founder of Anime Club
Founder and President of Academic Trivia Club
Political Debate Club
Vice President of History Club</p>
<p>Total of 240+ hours of community service in these:
Lasaillian Youth
Peer Ministry
Big Brothers, Big Sisters
Camp Sunshine</p>
<p>Jobs:
Recently just got a job at McDonalds at night on the weekends.</p>
<p>Schools Applying to:
RIT
University of Kansas
University of Virginia
Virginia Tech
LeMoyne College
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Lehigh University
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities</p>
<p>Aim higher to more selective colleges - you have good stats, EC’s - explore other colleges, express your passion in your essays…set your goals higher. You deserve it. Go for it.</p>
<p>Apply to a bunch of Ivys… they pay for financial aid and you look like a good candidate given your financial situation and family situation
good lucK!</p>
<p>Definitely apply to better schools than the ones you listed. But don’t get your hopes too high for any Ivies. Maybe try some prestigious LACs, like Whitman or Vassar or something. Or apply to University of Michigan, University of Washington, NYU (I think you have a good chance there), some of the UCs, etc.</p>
<p>Agreed with what everyone else said. You’re basically a match at every school on that list, in fact, your OVERQUALIFIED. Some schools may reject overqualified applicants in fear that they are using them as safteys.</p>
<p>You seem like a very smart, and well rounded person. Try to go for a couple of “safety” schools, a few matches, and apply to a few “dream schools”. Your a very competitive applicant.;)</p>
<p>Look into which Ivies and LACs have policies of having low income students graduate without any student loans - perhaps Bowdoin, Middlebury, Pomona.</p>
<p>Have you looked into the scholarship program called Questbridge?</p>
<p>I have always been told that I do not have good enough grades to to Ivy Leagues or really prestigious schools. My scores were pretty good, but still people still thought I could not make it. My EC’s aren’t super great, since my parents never had money to do all of those expensive things. Like in 9th Grade, I was invited to be a People to People Ambassador, but there was no way my parents could pay for a $4,000 ticket. In 10th, I was invited to go to a NYLC meeting. There was no way my parents could pay for a $1,500 ticket to the meeting, as well as paying for other expenses on their own. The only reason I could have gone to college prep school was due to financial aid and the two academic scholarships that were reqarded to me. You guys really give me some hopes, but yeah, I know there are many chances that I can be rejected to Ivy leagues.</p>
<p>Take more SAT IIs especially Math II and a science. If you score well you may be competitive for more privates. You can get fee waivers for applications. Stop listening to “people” and do your research online. “People” mean well but their information may be wrong or out of date. Now get busy, don’t rely on “people” to tell you what is available. If you don’t want to bother then it will be your loss.</p>
<p>bumps are lame. But do online research. Just to let you know, your ACT kills (i know. I got it). Like, a 35 on the ACT is typically equivalent to a 2400 SAT. So, apply to a safety or two, apply to a couple of “match” schools, and then figure out all the reach schools you’d like to apply to based on what they are (Brown if you like open curriculum, Harvard if you like prestige [bleh], Stanford if you like the westcoast and quarter system, HMC/Olin if engineering’s your thing, Cornell if you’re a mathemetician, Chicago if you like science and hard work, etc.)</p>
<p>And holding a job because you need the money is a worthy EC. Some colleges like seeing that.</p>
<p>Don’t any of you realize that I am Asian??? There is no way I can get into those prestigious schools, even though Math and Science are my two lowest grades throughout high school.</p>
<p>Even if you are Asian, you have amazing scores and you’re 1st generation. You are definitely qualified for top schools, even in the Ivy League pool. And many top schools are need-blind; if you need aid, you will probably receive it. I understand that the last thing you want is false hope; however, do realize that CC is generally an extremely pessimistic board. And yet, here we are, telling you to aim HIGHER. Unless you don’t want to attend a top school, go for it and you’ll most likely be pleasantly surprised.</p>
<p>i have to agree with what everyone has said.
aim as high as you can. you’ve worked hard and you deserved it.
you only have one life to life, and one time in your life to go to college. make it your best.</p>
<p>OK, on to the asian thing: don’t worry about it. People look for diversity, and you’re asian, true, but you bring in a lot of things that other kids, especially other asians, typcially don’t. One of my friends is now at Stanford: Asian, high (but not highest) in her class, but with no leadership positions in extracurriculars, or even very many extracurriculars (she worked throughout high school, though), and test scores I’m pretty sure were in the low-2000s. She’s incredibly intelligent, though, having self-studied for some AP tests, and in her essays and whatnot she showed that she could fill a gap that Stanford had. Seriously, they may pull up the test-scores of some URMs, athletes and legacies, but schools don’t really reverse-discriminate, other than using some of their acceptances tomake their school more diverse.</p>
<p>I forgot to tell you that I got a SAT fee wavier. On the site, it says that if I did recieve a SAT fee waiver, I could get an application wavier to four colleges on the waiver list. That would save my family some money. My dream schools are definitely the University of Virginia and Lehigh University. A lot of kids from my school go to LeMoyne College, so I guess I might being using it as a safety. How about you guys suggest some specific matches and safeties in the Central/Upper New York area?</p>