Chance me RD

Colleges and Universities A-Z Vassar College
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<p>Now that I am actually looking in to Vassar, I am starting to like it more and more. I wish I applied EDII and put more effort in to my supplemental essay.</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian
School: Large public school (1,400 students) in Massachusetts</p>

<p>Rank: 8/329
GPA: 4.1 weighted GPA
Rigor: I took every AP course offered except AP Stats. (APUSH, AP English Lit, AP English Lang., AP American Gov., and AP Calc.) plus two other AP courses online. (AP Spanish Lang. and AP French Lang.)</p>

<p>SAT: CR-710, W-690, M-660 (I know these aren't that great, but my scores are in the top 1% of my school. Hopefully that will be a factor)
SAT II:
-Spanish with Listening- 780
-French- 690</p>

<p>ECs:
-Middlebury-Monterey Language Academy- four week immersion program sponsored by Middlebury College. I attended in 2009 for French and 2010 for Spanish
-Student Council (9-12)
-NHS (11-12)- Vice President (12)
-Massachusetts Boys' State- leadership program. June 2010
-Varsity swim team (9-12)
-Rec. swim team (9-12)
-Local orchestra (9-12)
-WPI Math Meet team member (12)
-Student tutor (10-12)
-Subway Restaurant employee (10-12)
-Church Youth Group member (9-12)</p>

<p>Awards:
-Foreign Language Award for French and Spanish (9-12)
-SWE Award for Excellence in Math and Science
-AIC book award</p>

<p>Recs:
-Counselor's rec. has a lot of praise and lists my accomplishments, but I don't think it's anything extraordinary.
-Teacher rec. from my Spanish teacher and NHS adviser. I've never read other people's recs. to gauge the quality of recs., but I think it's safe to say that this rec. is amazing.
-Teacher rec. from my English teacher. Also amazing and very specific. She wrote about some specific assignments of mine that she especially liked.</p>

<p>Essay:
Common App- I wrote about my being Asian does not mean I excel in Math and Science. This essay also explains why some of my Math grades aren't spectacular, but how I still take the challenge. My English teacher with a Doctorate in English said it was amazing.</p>

<p>Supplemental- I wrote a very generic response saying that Vassar came up as one of the most diverse and liberal schools in my college search. I wish I put more effort in to this.</p>

<p>Be brutally honest.</p>

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<p>bump! anyone?</p>

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<p>Daniel! It’s Dan M. from Boys State! Things are looking pretty good as far as I can see. I really want to get accepted too!</p>

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<p>Hi! :smiley: I am really glad that I applied. Vassar seems amazing!</p>

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<p>I think your chances are excellent if your essay is as good as you think. Vassar values the essay more than most schools. Your GPA is where it needs to be and that is the most important criteria. My daughter is a current Vassar student and she had a much lower GPA than you but better SAT’s. She wrote a great essay on the common app but only one paragraph on her “Why Vassar” supplement. So I wouldn’t worry too much about your response to the supplement. Especially since there is only room for 1000 characters unless you uplaod a document. Did you submit a “Your Space” response? If not, it’s not too late to write another essay, send a research project, or send them something your pround of. Just mail it in and write “Your Space” on the outside of the package. My son has also applied for the Vassar Class of 2015 but he applied ED2. His GPA is also not as good as yours and I think that is the most importnt criteria. Good Luck!</p>