Chance me. Hispanic Male MIT and others

Applying to College
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<p>Gender: Male
Race: Hispanic
Location: San Diego, CA
Major: Biology/Comp Sci
Career: Genetic Engineering</p>

<p>Public High School
Class Size: 750 +</p>

<p>Academics:
GPA - Unweighted: 3.711
GPA - Weighted: 4.184</p>

<p>Grades:
9th: 4.0, 4.0
English 1 Honors- A, A
Algebra 2 Honors- A, A
Biology 1 Honors- A, A
Spanish 1- A, A
Physical Education- A, A
Band: Percussion- A, A
Marching Band/Drum Line- A, A</p>

<p>10th: 4.0, 4.17
English 2 Honors- B, A
*Pre-calculus Honors: Math Analysis- A, A
Biology AP- B, B
Spanish 2- A, A
European History AP- B, B
Oral Interpretation- A, A</p>

<p>11th: 4.67, 4.33
Statistics AP- B+, B+
Calculus B/C AP- A, A
English 3 AP (English Language AP)- A, B
U.S. History AP- B, B
* Chemistry 1 Honors- A, A
* Spanish 3 Honors- A, B</p>

<p>12th:
English 4 AP
Spanish 4 AP
Physics C AP
Chemistry AP
US Government AP
Calculus 3 w/DiffEq
Independent P.E.</p>

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<li>Means weighted course (worth 5 points)</li>
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<p>SAT I: 2170
R: 650
W: 770
M: 750 (highest is 760 though)
SAT II: Math Level 2 (IIC): 790
Biology - M: 790
Chemistry: 720</p>

<p>ACT: 34
E: 35
M: 36
R: 31
S: 35
W: Still Processing</p>

<p>AP: Biology- 5
European History- 3
English Language- 5
Calculus B/C- 5
Statistics- 4
US History- 4</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Boy Scouts of America- Life Scout (Almost Eagle Scout)
Order of the Arrow- Vigil Honor (Chapter: Treasurer ’09, Vice Chief ’10, Lodge: Membership Chair ’10, Treasurer ’11, Chief ’11, Chief ’12, and Vigil Chief ’11) I am in charge of over 1100 members of the National Honor Society of Boy Scouts
Speech and Debate (9, 10, 11, 12) First from school to go national
Science Olympiad (10, 11)
Academic League (10-Co-Captain, 11-Co-Captain, 12-Captain)
Math Club (10-Treasurer, 11-VP, 12-President)
Mu Alpha Theta (11- Founder/Pres, 12-President)
National Honor Society (11, 12)
Beta Club (10, 11)
Band (9)
Drum Line (9)
Soccer Club, not school (9)
National Society for High School Scholars (9, 10, 11, 12)
California Scholarship Federation (9, 10)
Church Youth Group (9, 10, 11, 12)</p>

<p>Work:
Panera Bread Associate (July 2011 – Current)</p>

<p>Community Service: 750+ hours
Boy Scouts, Church, Volunteered at a Summer Camp for 8 weeks</p>

<p>Honors and Awards:
JV Academic League North Conference Champions (2 Years in a row)
JV Academic League Team Player of the Year
Various Speech and Debate trophies/medals
Congressional Debate State Championships 2010
Parliamentary Debate State Championships 2011
Gold Level STAR Testing (All 4 years)
7th Place WGI (World Drum Line Championships) 2009
3rd Place SCPA Championships (Drum Line)
4th Place Southern California Band & Orchestra Association - Field Championships 2008
Zone and District Winner - Optimist International Oratorical Contest
Various Soccer medals/trophies (Club)
Boys and Girls Club Golden Boy
Boys and Girls Club Member of the Year</p>

<p>College Summer programs:
UC Irvine Gifted Students Academy 2005-2007
MOSTEC (An MIT program of engineering) 2011</p>

<p>Colleges of Interest:
MIT, CalTech, Johns Hopkins, Columbia, Yale, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UC LA, U Chicago, Georgetown, WUSL, Boston University, USC, Carnegie Melon, Northwestern, U Penn, Cornell, Dartmouth, Brown, Duke and Fordham.</p>

<p>Also what other schools should I apply to? And how can I improve my stats? I am planning to get a 4.67 again this semester, with a B in government.</p>

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<p>You’ve listed 20 schools (counting the UCs as 1), are you actually going to apply to that many, and are you really looking for more?</p>

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<p>Doesn’t seem like much you can do at this late date beside keeping your grades up. No need for retesting with a 34. I’m assuming you’re sending just the ACT to all schools that accept it.</p>

<p>Not a great place for Chances, but if you haven’t already seen it, check out the Hispanic Students forum (under Specialty Topics) for lots of good information on how college admissions works for Hispanic students, scholarships, fly-ins, etc.</p>

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<p>I haven’t applied anywhere yet, and want to know which schools I should apply to/if there are any good ones I haven’t listed thought of that I should consider. I’m probably going to apply to 7 or 8, this is just a list of potential schools.</p>

<p>And yeah, I guess I can’t really change anything, but I will definitely check out the hispanic students forum</p>

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<p>also, should I only submit my ACT or should I submit both? Is there a disadvantage to sending the SAT?</p>

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<p>BUMP. What are my chances at such universities?</p>

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<p>Glad to hear that! We do get students here thinking a shotgun approach works for selective colleges, but the loss in being able to send top notch applications hardly makes up for the marginal, if any, increase in acceptance.</p>

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<p>The only ones that come to mind are some of the other techy schools like Mudd, RPI, etc. That’s just based on your academic interest in CS though, it also depends on other factors you’re considering: size, location, core vs. open curriculum, general vibe of the school, etc. </p>

<p>Is MOSTEC competitive like Mites? If so, it could help w/MIT.</p>

<p>A 34 is equivalent to about a 2265:</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/[/url]”>http://www.act.org/aap/concordance/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>I’d recommend ACT over SAT, because of the difference in total score and the relatively low SAT CR. For those schools permitting it, you could use Score Choice to also send your Subject tests (you can’t do this for Y, I’m not sure about the other schools).</p>

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<p>Isn’t MOSTEC an online forum, sort of like a social networking thing, for students not accepted to MITES? That’s what I was told when I was there.</p>

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<p>It is an online forum combined with a week long engineering conference at MIT. How the MITES acceptance thing worked was that the Adcoms accepted 200 applicants, and gave those 200 to the OEOP (office of engineering outreach programs). They than selected 60-80 for MITES and 60-80 for MOSTEC. That’s what I’ve been told at least. and yes, it was for people who didn’t get into MITES</p>

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<p>When did your MOSTEC conference at MIT happen? I went to E2@MIT, ours was right after MITES</p>

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<p>Oh nice, I never heard about E2 until a few weeks ago, I guess I never got the memo :confused: That would have been cool too. The MOSTEC conference happened last week, which was super cool. Although, I’m sure MITES would have been a lot better</p>

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<p>80 kids were accepted to MITES, 60 to E2@MIT, then you guys for MOSTEC. </p>

<p>Our program was MITES crammed into 1 week. </p>

<p>(sorry to derail)</p>

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<p>Yeah, that matches up with the info I was given. The adcoms accepted 200, mostec had about 60, and then 80 for mites and 60 for e2, would equal that 200 that were accepted for OEOP programs. makes sense.<br>
to get back on track: Do you think we have a good chance? And do other universities recognize the rigor of these programs?</p>

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<p>BUMP. What are my chances at such universities? PLEASE</p>

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<p>I think you have a good chance at a lot of good schools. But they definitely will not know what MOSTEC is. Did you receive evaluations? We did, and I sent that as a supplemental LOR.</p>

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<p>BUMP for more chances. Thanks for everyone so far, can I have more feedback though!?</p>

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<p>bump 10char</p>