<p>1880 SAT
4.16 GPA
30 ACT</p>
<p>Mexican American
2/300
from Compton</p>
<p>no significant EC just college prep programs and school leadership positions</p>
<p>Would I have a chance for acceptance at Harvard?
Am I in the top 10% of SAT Latino scores?</p>
<p>Would I be admitted at Stanford, Columbia, Harvard, and/or Dartmouth?</p>
<p>Is that your weighted GPA?</p>
<p>^ probably</p>
<p>SAT seems a bit low, not many EC’s so I’d say not great. Apply anyways</p>
<p>Yup, apply anyways, you are an URM so your chances skyrocket anyways.</p>
<p>Super jelly of URM status</p>
<p>Not too crazy about your stats, but I think you have a shot.
But here’s the question, do you really want to go?</p>
<p>why wouldn’t I want to go? Because I might not be prepared for the coursework?</p>
<p>^How many AP courses did you take in junior and senior years and what were your scores on them? What is the average SAT score at your school? How many National Merit Commended and semifinalists are there, each year from your school?</p>
<p>You have a low chance, even with the URM-status. Your scores, GPA, and extracurriculars are too weak. There are still a lot of great schools you can look into, though.</p>
<p>I took 6 AP classes. My hs only offers about 8 AP courses. I got 3s in all of them. Average SAT score is ranges from 1100-1300. There were no National Merit participants.</p>
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<p>Let me put it to you this way, you want to go to a school where you can succeed, remember, the best internships, graduate programs and whatnot are available to only the top quarter of your class and unlike with undergraduate admissions, your URM status won’t help you there. If you aren’t in that pool, then going to an elite institution isn’t really worth it.</p>
<p>And, I’m going to be brutally honest here, I don’t think that you can make it to the top of your class at an elite college given your stats.</p>
<p>My best friend was deferred from Harvard EA with a 35 on the ACT, a 4.6 GPA that makes him valedictorian, 5s on every AP test he’s taken (and he’s taken 6 of them; 8 more this year), and being on a competitive swim team that takes up 40 hours of his week. He’s white. If he can’t get in with his scores and you can with yours just by being Hispanic, I’d be mind blown.</p>
<p>^I know it kinda does suck that race is even considered an admission factor when we as a society are trying to be “color blind” but we can’t bring down individuals for the faults of society in this case. The OP is an individual who didn’t make the rules but just benefits from them. That being said, sorry for your friend, but the sad truth is the OP probably has a good 10% chance of getting in while your friend probably had about 5%, yes, it is mind boggling.</p>
<p>^Liz, obviously there was something wrong with your friend.</p>
<p>matt, It is no fun getting in and then flunking out at the end of the year. Students with much higher stats cannot handle the work load in colleges like these. So, it is not about getting in, but whether you would enjoy being there. What you are describing is a high school which is not very competitive. It is easier to get As in a school where the average SAT is low and few students recognized by national merit program than among students where most of them have high SAT scores etc. You may want to apply to MITES or some such program where they can assess your preparation before applying to top schools like these.</p>
<p>I know right? Plus a 10 hour a week, year long internship at the local university’s chemistry lab doing research. Plus his interview with the alum went well. It baffles me that Harvard can reject people like him… Though last year, 6 people in my whole state were accepted. :\ I’m not saying it’s impossible for the OP to get in, and it would never hurt to try, but with the Ivies you just gotta know not to expect anything…</p>
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<p>At first, I had a similar reaction, but honestly, schools like Harvard must get hundreds of applicants like him, it’s not too much of a surprise that he wasn’t accepted.</p>
<p>I feel like we see all these overachievers in the context of our own lives, and think “Wow, that guy is going wherever he wants to.” But when placed in a national context, they’re still impressive, but nowhere near as much as we initially thought.</p>
<p>lulz @ Compton</p>
<p>The 10% chance statement is not true… Not to be blunt, but the OP’s scores and GPA are just not on par with the average scores at those schools, and there are many URMs who are very successful.</p>
<p>^ OP claims to be second in a class of 300. His GPA is fine for his school.</p>
<p>He also said the average SAT at his school is 1100-1300. Being the top in a below-average school doesn’t help much. His AP scores are below average for Ivies as well.</p>