Chance Me: Hispanic, Linguistics Major

[CheetoMan]

Demographics

• Connecticut, US
• Public High School
• Gender/Race/Ethnicity: Male/White/Hispanic (I’d be applying as Hispanic)
• Other Special Factors: (Niche major?, Hispanic, Mom’s a teacher?, I went to school in a different town than where I lived?? - I really have nothing)

Intended Major(s): Linguistics

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

• Unweighted HS GPA: 3.98
• Weighted HS GPA : 4.5 (honors and AP add .5, 4.0 scale)
• Class Rank: No class rank, but counselor told me I was in top 10 of class of 350ish
• ACT/SAT Scores: 1520, no ACT

Coursework

• 11 APs (APWH (5), APUSH (5), AP CoGo, AP Psych, AP Spanish Lang (5), AP French, AP Lang (5), AP Bio, AP Chem (4), AP Calc BC (4,5 AB), AP Stats),
• 8 honors
• I took French 4 years and Spanish 2 years (soph and junior year, school stopped Spanish Lit so I didn’t take senior year) - Demonstrated Interest of major

Awards

ALCE Diploma (Spanish cultural program I took since 1st grade)

Hispanic Scholar

AP Scholar

High Honors Roll All Through HS

Extracurriculars

Youth Group Leader at a local organization - YG taught immigrants in community English (4 years)

Founder of school Geography Bee (4 Years)

Vice President of Linguistic Society (Member 2 years, VP 1 year)

ALCE Spanish School (4 Years)

Pueblo Ingles Volunteer Summer Program - Taught English at a camp in Spain (3 Years)

Varsity Track (4 Years)

JV Soccer (2 Years)

Spanish Tutor (2 Years)

NACLO (North American Computational Linguistics Open Competition - 3 Years)

Environmental Club (Member 2 Years, Treasury 1 Year)

French Club (Member 1 Year)

Essays/LORs/Other

4H/AP French Teacher: 9/10
AP Chem Teacher: 6.5/10
Counselor: 6/10

Essays: 9.5/10

Schools

• Safety: Drexel, SUNY Purchase

• Likely: UCONN, UMass Amherst

• Match: Boston College (mom went there if that matters), Northeastern, URoch, BU

• Reach: Brown (ED), Yale, MIT (EA), Rice, Tufts, Duke, UMich (EA)

[tsbna44]

I like it. I think you get into at least two of your matches…BC Legacy will help.

You certainly have a chance at your reaches as well.

I like how you built your list.

Your safeties seem unusual to me but I’m sure there’s a reason you picked them. Your likeliest are also safeties.

I think you’ll end up at a match or reach unless UCONN gives you too good an offer to turn down.

Good luck.

[Catcherinthetoast]

Looks like a solid and well structured list and you are competitive throughout. Given your location it looks like all but 3 schools are driving distance. Did you have a chance to visit while students were on campus?

Just wondering as I think it certainly helps with authenticity in essays. Hopefully you are one and done with Brown but if not I suspect you will have a chance to visit and compare a few acceptances later. Fingers crossed on Brown.

I am sure the wait is stressful. Hang in there!!

[CheetoMan]

Yes! Visiting the campuses definitely helped me think of things to write, and I was lucky enough to visit all these schools besides Rice and URoch. Thanks for your kind words and I definitely can’t wait for this process to be over!

[Catcherinthetoast]

Good luck and GO BRUNO!!