Chance Me Please!

<p>White Female - Public Highschool in MA</p>

<p>GPA: 94.643
Rank: 9/115
Taken all honors, 4 APs (Us History, European History, Biology, and Calculus)(school only offers 6)
First Generation College Student
Taken 4 years language, 4 years of all core subjects</p>

<p>SAT:
680 Critical Reading, 640 Math, 600 Writing, 1920 Total
SAT II's: 680 Biology, 660 Math L1</p>

<p>ECS:
Yearbook (editor in chief)
Leo Club
Student Council
Senior class Treasurer
Quiz Team
Peer Mediation
NHS (Treasurer)
Volunteer Bike Patrol (organizer)
Between 200 and 300 hours of community service</p>

<p>AWARDS:
University of Rochester Book Award, LEO Club gold award, john & abigail adams scholarship, Some Radio Station SUPER STUDENT, Girls State Representative, Who's Who nomination, Leo Club Young Leadership Gold Award, Junior Prize Speaking 1st Place</p>

<p>Recs: One extremely good and one was ok.</p>

<p>ESSAYS: good -</p>

<p>SCHOOLS:
Middlebury
Holy Cross
St. Michael's
Brandeis
Ithaca
UMASS Dartmouth
Stonehill</p>

<p>Hoping to study molecular Biology with Pre-med</p>

<p>Middlebury is my top choice but most likely won't get in</p>

<p>and St.Michael's is my saftey (beautiful area and I just love it!)</p>

<p>Chance me please!</p>

<p>Great post. First generation college student that is not an URM. Your application will really mess up the admissions folks who had thought they'd gotten around the URM quota/preference legal barriers by seeking first generation college kids. You should get in all especially if you stress first gen college and editor in chief. Good luck!</p>

<p>Thanks Garrity!
I wrote my essay on being a first generation college student and I hope that it makes an impact. I am still a little worried about Middlebury. I still am pretty sure that I will get a rejection from them.</p>

<p>GPA is fine, but those SAT scores are going to hurt. URMs/First-generation college students aren't necessarily admitted despite lower scores. Rather, there are strong candidates who are URM/FG and there are those with the same stats who are not, and the colleges go for the URM/FG students. I don't think that being first-generation is going to help unless she makes it past the first few hurdles.</p>

<p>I'm wondering why you took Math I (not a good test to take in general, as it's harder to get an 800 than Math II) and Bio, when you're applying to LACs not known for sciences...</p>

<p>I'd say:</p>

<p>Middlebury - reach
Holy Cross - match
Brandeis - slight reach
Safety at all others.</p>