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<p>SAT: 680- math
710-critical reading
720- Writing
Want to retake in December</p>

<p>SAT ll 770- US HIST
750- W HIST</p>

<p>Rank - 2/542</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA- 4.0
W GPA -113.78 (my school does it on a 100 scale?</p>

<p>Potential environmental studies, political science or English major</p>

<p>AP Scores- 5 US HIST, 4 Eng Lang, 4 Psychology, 4, Environmental Science, 3 world HIST </p>

<p>I will have taken 11 of the 20 offered AP classes by the time I graduate which is as many as my schedule allows. I'm in an arts magnet program as a creative writing major that I had to audition for and am required to have two honors g/t courses each year in my schedule for my creative writing major. I took four classes last summer to have space for AP electives which were all in core requirement areas such as pe, speech as health.</p>

<p>Essays: will likely be about my brothers grandmother who raised us until I was fourteen years old. She isn't related to me but took me in anyway, I might also write about the Tao of pooh. Not sure yet. </p>

<p>Recs: should be good; one of my teacher recs will be really beautiful. I had to request it for Dartmouth bound and she let me read it. </p>

<p>ECs:
creative writing sect of arts magnet program which includes lit mag and poetry readings
film appreciation club- highly informal and not school related in which a group of people watch a few movies and analyze them in depth for an hour or so after
Representative forum since 9th; voting rep since 11th
social studies UIL ( academic team since 9th grade.
Model UN since 9th
Animal society- 11th founding officer and treasurer
National Honor Society member since 11th.(first year available to students)
Spanish Honor Society- historian also only available to juniors and seniors
Earth club-12th
Temporarily a Texas highschool aerospace scholar participant through online NASA program </p>

<p>Community service- maybe 100 hours freshman and sophomore year through church groups
As I became more secular most of my community service has been through clubs and at book fairs, writing workshops or volunteering to usher plays with occasional nursing home visits maybe about 50 hours this year total</p>

<p>Awards- National Hispanic scholar
AP scholar with distinction
Silver key in poetry through scholastic alliance
Four poems published in 84th city library anthology. 80 chosen out of over 2000
Nominated for NCTE achievement award by English teacher
Directors award at Alamo regional science fair in physics category
Nominated by congresswoman to be a NASA TX highschool aerospace scholar</p>

<p>Summer Experience:
National Student Leadership Conference theater program at Fordham university
Dartmouth Bound Summer 2012 (can I even list this?)
55 hours one week teaching self created lesson plans on screen writing to elementary and middle school students.
Work:
Unpaid Internship at a nonprofit arts organization downtown
Secretary and Internet advertising for my dads real estate business since he's self employed.
This year though, I worked from April to early July as a server at this restaurant called Souper salad but I quit because of inconsistent pay and a bad working condition.</p>

<p>I'm very worried about how I will stand in the college admissions process because of my low test scores and less than stellar community service. Most of my time is eaten away by chores (its just my dad and me) and my magnet school's creative writing program. We do public readings every month an submit monthly to our departments literary magazine that is run by the seniors. Next year I'll be co editor-in-chief with another student. However last year our magazine won the highest award given to lit mags by NCTE, the only one given in Texas.</p>

<p>Last Hooks (?)- Female Hispanic, writing ability maybe (?), go to a large inner city public high school that hosts three magnet programs
Anti hooks- will need financial aid desperately because our family income is under 40,000 a year.</p>

<p>So please have at the chances. Sorry for an obnoxiously long post and thank you if you got this far.</p>

<p>Any and everything's appreciated. Sorry for typos. I didn't exactly proofread this.</p>

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<p>@Avalde4 I feel your chances are fantastic! Your scores arent that bad! I know several people who have gotten into Ivies with 1500-1700 SAT score plus you, like me are a minority… You will be fine!! </p>

<p>How about me?
Chance me please</p>

<p>[SAT]- 1850…(low but higher than my school’s avg of 1350)
[GPA]- 4.0
[Rank]- 9/314</p>

<p>[Classes]- AP Lit, AP Comp, AP US Gov, AP Comparative Gov, AP Spanish, AP Calac, AP Pysics, AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP US Hisory, Hon Geometry, Hon Algabra 2, Hon Pre Calc, Hon World History, Hon English 9, Hon English 10</p>

<p>[Gender]- Female</p>

<p>[Ethncity]- 1/2Black 1/2 Native American </p>

<p>[EC] Intern at Delaware Democratic Party, Intern at Bank of America, Student Government (President), Best Buddies/Special Olympics Volunteer, Medical Explorers (President), Young Democratcs (Co-Founder & President), Year-round Hospital Volunteer, Speech & Debate, Science Olympiad</p>

<p>[Awards-] Bank of America Student Leaders(National), President’s Volunteer Service Award(National), Jefferson Award for Public Service (State), American Legion Auxilary Girls Nation(National), ALA Girls State(State) </p>

<p>[Essay]- Wrote about my experience at Girls Nation meeting many girls with different political views. We were all willing to share ideas even though many contradictd our own personal beliefs. There, I also met and hugged President Obama</p>

<p>[Hook]- Political junkie & Strong Advocate for people with Disabilities- met President of US, Intern at DE Democratic party, met Senators on several occasions, Youth & Gov Delegate, Princeton Model Congress Delegate;
drafted a bill illegalizing sub-minimum wage for people w/ intellectual disabilities, organized schools 1st annual Disability Awareness Day, volunteer w/ Best Buddies/Special Olympics</p>

<p>Comments: over 400 hours of community service</p>

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<p>@Avalde4 I think you definitely have a very strong chance. Your standardized scores are a little bit on the low side, but compared to those of other URM’s I’ve seen accepted in the ED threads from previous years, they’re pretty good. I’m also applying ED as a URM. I think my standardized scores are more or less ok but I’m worried about my EC’s. I feel like I didn’t do enough of those, which might be a problem. If I had to guess for you, 80% chance.
@TooCool1212 I think you have an okayish chance. Your standardized scores are kind of low but you look like you have a decent number of EC’s and awards, so maybe that will help compensate. If I had to guess, 50% chance.</p>

<p>And both of you, PLEASE take my guesses with a grain of salt. I’m not an admissions officer. I’m a Class of 2017 hopeful just like the two of you, just making guesses based on what I’ve seen from family friends and a few kids in my high school who were accepted.</p>

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<p>Chance me please?
Stats:
•SAT:2230 (Math:750, Critical Reading:720, Writing:760 one sitting, didn’t take it a second time though maybe I should have)
•SAT IIs:US:770, Bio:750, Chem:770, Spanish:800, World:760, Math II;780
•GPA:4.0
•Rank:2/450
•Other stats:Soph yr: AP world-5, AP Psych-5
Junior Year:AP US-5, AP Chem-5, AP Bio-5, AP English Language-5, AP Calc BC-5
taking AP Physics, AP Macroeconomics, AP Spanish, AP English Lit, and AP Gov my senior year
Subjective:
•Essays: wrote about my mixed heritage (Dad is Mexican and Japanese; Mom is Irish, Italian, Russian, and Romanian), and my weird feelings about it growing up
•ECs: president of math team, vice president of sci olympiads, also involved in Spanish Honor Society, National Honor Society, and art club
•Teacher Recs:didn’t see them but I’m sure they’re good
•Counselor Rec: we have a pretty good relationship so I’m guessing it’s good
•Hook (if any): part Mexican so I guess I can be considered a URM?
Location/Person:
•State or Country:California
•School Type: large public school (about 450 kids?)
•Ethnicity: mixed
• Income Bracket:middle class
•Gender:F
Other Factors: National Merit Semifinalist, also did volunteer work in a hospital junior year. Didn’t do it freshman or soph year so kinda regret that:/
General Comments:</p>

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<p>@toocool I think you still have a strong chance considering you are a double URM. You’re activities are very impressive, particularly your work with people with disabilities. Make sure you take two subject tests! You’ve taken a good amount of ap classes. What do you want to major in? I’d like to comment on how that can help your application. </p>

<p>@rosario !! I actually remember reading this once on another thread and feeling as though you shouldn’t have asked because I feel like you’re a strong shoe-in. You have amazing standardized testing and a cosmopolitan heritage that is in keeping with the city of New York which makes you an even more appealing applicant! You have a handful of clubs along with leadership in two and you’re applying ED!! I wish I would have so badly. Best of luck, I think you have amazing chances. What do you think you want to major in?</p>

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<p>I’m considering doing pre-med atm. Probably will be a chemistry major or something. Not entirely sure yet though. How about you?</p>

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<p>And that’s in keeping with your extracurriculars which demonstrates that you’re already working towards your passion so I think that further boosts your app. I want to do political science, environmental studies or English. In that order. I know they aren’t too similar to each other but they’re all loosely related in the sense that its giving back to the community which is all I really wanna do as far as a career goes. I feel like the only reason to go to school is to become a contributing member of society which was instilled in me by my brothers grandma whom is the center of my essay.</p>

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<p>@Avalde4 Im not positive. I want to major in political science or neuroscience and behavior (pre-med)</p>

<p>@Rosario1994 Thanks!! My standardized tests scores are for sure the weakest part of my application but I feel that people worry too much about them when everything else about their applicatio is good. My older brother got into Harvard with a 1750, and my friend into UPenn with an 1800. Hopefully my scores can be overlooked</p>

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<p>@toocool that’s great! I don’t know if you read my above post, but your ECs really reflect your passions and what you want to continue to do and since your ECs are so strong I think this will definitely make you an even more attractive candidate. Plus I think schools like it when your siblings are in peer institutions, but I’m not too positive about this. Best of luck toocool! I really hope we all get in.</p>

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<p>Bump. Second attempt here we go!</p>

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<p>Bump bump dee bump bump</p>

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<p>No one is a shoo-in.</p>

<p>What is a “good chance” when the class of 2016 had a 7.4% admit rate? To even say one applicant is twice as appealing AS EVERYONE ELSE is to say they have roughly a 15% chance. </p>

<p>This exemplifies the utility of “chance me and I’ll chance back” threads. </p>

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Please look up the def’n of “echo chamber”. </p>

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