<p>Hello everyone.</p>
<p>I was wondering if someone would be able to chance me?</p>
<p>In the short version (for now), I come from a very broken home. Lost a parent as a child, was homeschooled until 7th grade, currently live with my family and my step family of criminals (literally. My family situation has probably impacted my life on a total scale.) 3.738 GPA, 33 ACT, perfect writing score (no essay). My essays were very powerful and describe my life and achievements well.</p>
<p>My resume includes President of Student Government, Alpha Lions Club, and National History Club, Officer of National Honors Society, Peer Leaders, and Volunteer work with hours in the hundreds, working for two years continuously as a tutor and starting my own private tutoring service, 4 on AP stat and 5 on AP gov. Currently in AP classes for Physics, English, History, and Math.</p>
<p>I don't feel like writing this to an extremely large extent because I will find out my decision in one month, but based off of that information, do you think I have a chance?</p>
<p>Thank you very much! :)</p>
<p>Also I forgot, I also took Math 2, US Hist and Inter Hist SAT 2’s and got a 660, 630, and 690 respectively.</p>
<p>To be honest, I would predict a deferment. </p>
<p>However, if you explained your situation without portraying your life as a sob-story (I will explain) you may not stand an unreasonable chance. Your ACT is quite high and your GPA is fine given the circumstances. </p>
<p>With respect to portraying your situation, it is such a tender affair explaining personal hardship that sob-stories give the wrong impression. Adcoms may think you are trying to excuse any shortcomings. You said that your essays are very powerful, so I have no reason to doubt that this would be the case with you.</p>
<p>Best of luck! If you do not mind sharing, which school did you apply to?</p>
<p>SFS of course! Difficult, but exactly what I would like to do.</p>
<p>As for explaining my short comings, I actually use my life to explain the new talents and skills I have learned such as patience, the ability to teach and self-learn, work in stressful situations, communicate with different cultures and sub-cultures (ghetto vs. suburb) of people. So I actually don’t point out flaws at all because well… that wouldn’t be my best move!</p>
<p>But as a triplet (me and another identical, the third fraternal) who lost a parent early, who was homeschooled most of his life, and now lives in a drug infested home with his stupidly large step family, I felt some of that story most be shared in any case!</p>
<p>Although, I do expect to be atleast deferred for EA (not sure if you meant deferred past regular, if thats even possible) because my ACT scores were taken in October. They will probably see my highest test score being my last SAT, which was a 1930 or 1300. Not the best.</p>
<p>That is actually quite fascinating and will put you in a unique category. Sometimes I forget how much circumstance can influence academics. It really isn’t my place to predict your chances, but you should be optimistic for the RD round and work to keep your grades high.</p>
<p>I wish you the best of luck no matter the result. EA deferment is not a death sentence, especially since your scores improved significantly.</p>
<p>Thank you very much! And yes, I am indeed playing the unique category to my advantage. But to be fair, without even “playing” it, my life has certainly been impacted in such unorthodox ways that to not mention it would be unfair to myself.</p>
<p>And boy, am I optimistic for RD right now!</p>