Chance me please? I'll do whatever you like.

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Notre Dame
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<p>Could you guys tell me what you think? I value your feedback and I'll chance back if you leave me a link, I promise.</p>

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<p>Gender: M
Location: NY
High School: Public HS of around 1500
High School Type: Usually sends a handful to tops, but this year sent many to tops so far.
(My class is VERY competitive and VERY successful compared to others)
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>

<p>My dad is Puerto Rican, no high school. He is noncustodial and missing.
My mom is Puerto rican, no college - single mom.
so Hispanic, 1st generation, income ~64k all that jazz.</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.0
Class Rank: 32 (Don't laugh, I was explicitly told me this was OK given the class size)
Class Size: 450[li]APs: Chem, 5, USH, 5, Bio (now), Calc AB. My school only offers 9 AP's, and most overlap during only 2 periods of the day. There isn't really an opportunity to take more than I have, and I explained that to my schools.</p>[/li]
<p>all honors where honors could fit, and all A's.</p>

<p>Major in Biochem/Premed </p>

<p>2000 SAT (bad) 650M/670W/680CR
SAT II! - 690Math 2, 710USH, 770 Chem
31 ACT (better...) 35Eng, 31Sci, 29Math, 30 Reading, 32 Writing+English 9/12 Essay
-On collegeboard, the ACT and SAT scores are disproportionate of one another...</p>

<p>recommendations:
1 GREAT from AP Chem teacher (TAing with her now)
1 GREAT from counselor who knows me VERY well
1 unknown, presumedly great from english teacher who knows me well
1 Awesome from Superintendent of Schools- knows me very well. Huge emphasis on how I did this process all by myself, and how my mother works too much to give any support other than $, which I'm grateful for. He also talked about how being raised in financially tight situations has allowed me to experience first hand why charities are so important.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
I think this is where I'm strong...</p>

<p>-Academic team (varsity) co-captain
-Track & XC scholar athlete
-Was on quiz bowl TV show competing for $10,000 for charity
-Manager, coordinator of charity event to raise $20,000 for hunger causes globally and in the community with the superintendent, 2 other students, some community members. Inaugural year of an annual project. The project goes off on 4/2. I'm responsible for media management & event planning.
-I'm a mentor for freshman through the guidance dept.
-National Honor Soc., Math Honor Society, Lead Prosecutor of Mock Trial
-Was assistant JV XC coach when I was out hurt from XC.
-Head of public relations for shark club (we raise & donate money to shark saving charities)
-Freshman tour guide
-Teaching an AP Chemistry lab class. We meet 2x/wk. I set up, coordinate AP labs to demonstrate everything a teacher would. It's on my transcript as Independent Study - Teaching Lab Science Methods.
-Safe School Ambassador: we work with administration to keep the school safe and happy through watchdog efforts, reports on the student body. No, we don't rat people out.
-Clean up crew for XC/Track meets, football games all 4 years.</p>

<p>Hooks: URM (Hispanic), 1st gen college (Idk what else?)</p>

<p>I'm pretty sure that my essays were great, I tend to be a great writer and english teacher-editors had all good remarks after some major overhauls.</p>

<p>Thanks guys! Let me know if any more info is necessary...</p>

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<p>I think you have a decent chance of admittance! Everything looks pretty good. Test scores are a little on the low side for ND but your GPA is very solid! Your recs seem as good as they can get and you have some interesting (in a good way :)) extracurriculars. And you’re a URM which never hurts. Hopefully I’ll be seeing you next year! </p>

<p>GO IRISH!!! 2015 :D</p>

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<p>You’ll be in I’m pretty sure. Although your ACT is below the 25th %ile, your GPA and class rank help offset that.</p>

<p>Oh yeah, then there is the whole URM thing. ND needs more diversity so you’ll be in for sure. Congrats on your acceptance to the University of Notre Dame, class of 2015!</p>

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<p>How can you be sure? Lol, it’d be awesome if that happened though…</p>

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<p>were you invited to the spring visitation weekend?</p>

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<p>was I supposed to be? Idk if I’m in yet…what do you mean?</p>

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<p>Check out years pasts threads and even this years EA threads and you’ll know why. There is an EXTREMLY disproportante gap between the admitted stats of URM’s and those not.</p>

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<p>Can you possibly post a link? I’m having issues finding the ND one.</p>

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^are asian indians counted as URM’s at notre dame? I’ve heard they are and they aren’t so I’m not sure…</p>

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<p>@OP, URM and hooks definitely help. And nice gpa and EC’s. SAT II’s are good. ACT is a little low but a 31 gives you a legit shot with URM. I think that you will get in but I don’t want to get your hopes up. Just be cautiously optimistic. :)</p>

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<p>@theRAD yeah, they are counted as a minority as get a boost (ie remember a 1360 sat getting in EA) but don’t get the same boost as African American or Hispanic do.</p>

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<p>Accepted via spring viz :). Good luck!!</p>

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<p>Congrats! You will love the school and have a great future ahead of you! Hats off to you and to your mom who has worked hard for you!
Go Irish!</p>