Chance me for Fall?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Central Florida
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<p>Hey everyone, </p>

<p>I'm an undergraduate freshman applicant for the UCF fall term. </p>

<p>Here are my stats:</p>

<p>Race: Indian (Asian)
GPA: 3.1 W (Many family issues that affected my performance)
SAT: 1920
Reading: 650
Math: 670
Writing: 600
ACT: 26
EC: Model UN for two years, Intramural Lacrosse and Soccer</p>

<p>And on top of that, I'm OOS in the top ranked public school in my state. I took many AP classes and honors classes in high school and always challenged myself, but family issues really held me back. I wrote about this in detail on my personal statement. Also, the GPA is not recalculated if UCF does that. I know that the UC schools in California do that, wasn't sure about UCF!</p>

<p>I'm tempted to call UCF's admissions and change my application to summer as it seems that it's easier to get in by doing that. </p>

<p>Thanks to everybody that reads this or chances me!</p>

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<p>Your ACT is below the average by 1 and your SAT is above the average by 100 points. If they only look at your best scores, that already improves your chances.</p>

<p>Your GPA is really low. The average is 3.87.</p>

<p>It really depends how much they consider your family issues and how much racial bias comes into play. I don’t think UCF is as biased as other schools, but being Indian certainly doesn’t help (sorry, but it’s the truth). If admissions feel that your family issues justify a large GPA drop, then I think you’ll be fine. If not, your chances would be kind of in the middle.</p>

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<p>Awesome, thanks a lot for your insight!</p>

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<p>TheTicks, if being a minority matters it only helps an application it doesn’t hurt it. Are you kidding me?</p>

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<p>Being a minority helps if you are an “Underprivileged minority.” Hispanics and African Americans get their application “Boosted” while Asians and Caucasians (and Indians, but Asians is encompassing), get their applications knocked down a little bit. He said he was Indian, therefore, it can only hurt. There’s plenty of relevant information on the topic.</p>

<p>Examples: [Learning</a> to Stand Out Among the Standouts (washingtonpost.com)](<a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55160-2005Mar21.html]Learning”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55160-2005Mar21.html)
“As admissions strategists, our experience is that Asian Americans must meet higher objective standards, such as SAT scores and GPAs, and higher subjective standards than the rest of the applicant pool,”</p>

<p>[Racial</a> and Ethnic Preference - Brookings Institution](<a href=“http://www.brookings.edu/papers/1996/11race_kane.aspx]Racial”>http://www.brookings.edu/papers/1996/11race_kane.aspx)
For example, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray (authors of The Bell Curve) present differences in the average test scores of admitted students as evidence that whites and Asians face massive reverse discrimination.</p>

<p>I’m not going to sit here all day and post credible information and if you actually care you can do the research yourself. The fact of the matter is that being a minority only helps if you’re an underprivileged one. This makes sense because if you look at income by race, African Americans and Hispanics tend to have a lower income than Caucasians or Asians. Therefore, African Americans and Hispanics have less tools available to them (low income area, can’t afford SAT prep stuff etc.) and their application is adjusted accordingly. This is prominent in Ivy League and other top tier schools. While most state schools won’t actively practice it, it doesn’t mean that the decisions aren’t affected by them (statistically, it’s 0, but that’s because the number is small so it’s almost irrelevant.) However, being Indian cannot help him. At best, the impact will be none, but it may hurt him.</p>

<p>So to answer your question, no, I’m not kidding you, because minorities aren’t one giant group of similar people. Otherwise, they would be a majority.</p>

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<p>Do you guys think that I should ask them to switch my application from Fall to Summer? I really want to get in.</p>