<p>GPA (Weighted): 98.23
GPA (Unweighted): Not sure</p>
<p>Rank: My school doesn't rank.</p>
<p>Test Scores/Classes:
-SAT: 2250
-ACT: Didn't take
-AP (so far): AP World, AP Eng, AP US (All 5s)
-SAT Subjects: Math II 750, US 750, Lit. 750
-12th Grade: AP/BC Calc, AP Chem., AP Macro, AP Gov, AP Psych. </p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
-Class President (11)
-NHS Pillar (11)
-Student Organization Delegate (10,9)
-Vice President of Heifer (10,11)
-Junior Statesmen of America (JSA) Expansion Agent (10,11)
-Track (9,10,11) Varsity Senior Year/Captain Senior Year
-Cross Country (9,10,11,) Varsity Senior Year/Captain Senior Year
-Co-President and Co-founder of Injured Veterans Awareness Club (11)
-President and Co-founder of Hackey Sack Club (11)
- Altar Server (9,10,11)</p>
<p>Volunteer/Community Service Work:
-Altar Server at my local Church since 7th grade (Over 150 hours)
-Meals on Wheels Volunteer over the sumer( 30+ Hours)
-Various school events and walks for Student Organization</p>
<p>Summer Activities
-The Running School Camp
-JSA Summer School at Georgetown</p>
<p>Awards/Honors:
-National Merit Semi Finalist
-AP Scholar
-Best Speaker Award for JSA (Twice)</p>
<p>Recommendations: Two letters from two teachers who are deeply fond of me
Essays: Hopefully Good
Counselor Rec: Very good
Teacher Recs: Very Very good</p>
<p>State: NY
School: Ranked 35th in the country by US News Report
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sex: Male</p>
<p>Are you Hispanic from an English-in-the-home middle class family with college-educated parents, or low-income Hispanic with blue-collar immigrant parents who speak Spanish in the home? Not to suggest that those are the only two types of Hispanic families out there, of course, but presumably you get the distinction I’m driving at. </p>
<p>If the latter, your test scores are particularly impressive. In prior years I’ve seen some really high-achieving Hispanic kids from CA be rejected who I would have thought would get in, which is why I ask. It seems as if Hispanic status is not quite as strong an URM hook as some others, so I figure that economics and background must play into it. But it is pure speculation on my part.</p>
<p>You seem like a realistic candidate in general. Things that might make some difference: your actual SAT breakdown, the rigor of your course load (is it all honors where possible, have you taken physics, what is the story with your language study, have you taken “extra” classes, etc), your actual grades (are they going to see a transcript with almost all As of some description), how your GPA stacks up at your school (even without class rank, they will probably be able to tell roughly where you fall by looking at your school profile). And of course that indefinable something extra. Maybe that would be the JSA? I don’t know anything about it, so I can’t say.</p>
<p>Does this really work? :o</p>
<p>All of my classes, besides AP have been honors, yes, and my SAT breakdown is 750 CR 750 Math and 750 Writing. My Mom speaks spanish at home, and if this is a plus, I’ve taken physics (100 in the class), but the downside is a poor grade in chemistry (Would that ruin my chances?). Nonetheless, i still have a 98 cumulative gpa, while getting a 105 avg in my jr year. My family’s middle class, Id say between 90k-110k, not sure btw</p>
<p>So you have gotten precisely a 750 on every section and every test you’ve taken? No 740s or 760s?</p>
<p>Find out what your unweighted GPA is. Keep in mind that the NY pool of applicants is large.</p>
<p>You have ran track for 3 years, are you recruitment eligible?
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<p>This by itself means nothing. One of my good friends, who is a math teacher is Russian and speaks fluent spanish in her home along with Russian; her husband is fromthe Dominican Republic and her children are half Dominican. </p>
<p>Her latino students are always shocked, to find when they say something about her in spanish thinking that she does not know what they are talking about she responds or when she calls their home, they tell her their parents do not speak english. Then she continues the conversation in spanish.</p>
<p>What type of hispanic are you? Are you Puerto Rican or Mexican American? Are your roots Cuban or from some other spanish speaking country? Are you half hispanic or are you hispanic because your great great grandmother is hispanic.</p>
<p>Half hispanic, and it may be difficult to believe, but yes 750 on all of them. I also rather not say exactly what type of hispanic I am, though I will say South American</p>
<p>Then you would be considered hispanic, not necessarily a URM (with no appreciable boost).</p>
<p>You have really good stats. Definitely a good shot, but idk what all this “not an urm” stuff is about. If you are Hispanic, you are an urm… I don’t really think the exact country really matters that much. But even if you weren’t an urm, you would still be very competitive.</p>
<p>Oh, never mind. A friend just told me that only mexicans and puerto ricans are considered urms.</p>