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<p>I've done this for Brown & Dartmouth. Its lengthy, just skim through it and give me the most blut advice you have.
Colleges I plan on applying to: Brown, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Penn, UT at Austin (accepted), Duke & Notre Dame</p>

<p>Hispanice/ Female.
Rural Area--South Texas:Rio Grande (Right by the border so its basically Texico, haha!)
High School: Public, Sends a rare amount of kids to Ivy Leagues.
GPA: 4.0
Weighted Avg: 102.667
Rank: 5/447</p>

<p>Heres the big "F" on my application
Test scores.
SAT- Lets not go there
ACT- 22 composite (retaking Dec. 12th)
english-23, math 23, reading 23, science 19
(Average score in my location is a 19)</p>

<p>Education:
My High School does not offer AP to students until they are Juniors/Seniors. They classify underclassmen as "Pre-AP"
-Honors Anatomy/Physiology
-Dual College Buisness Classes (2 of them)
-Nutrition/Food Science College Course
-AP Physics
-AP English Lit & Language
-Pre-Calculus (College Credit and AP credit)
AP Tests: Took one and made a 2...Terrible...I think I might have fallen asleep....Whoops.</p>

<p>EC:
-Marching and Symphonic Band member /4 years/444 hours worth a year: Band Librarian, Section leader and plays both flute and saxophone
-Key Club President
-Kung-Fu student (Brown Belt 2nd degree)
-Interact Club Member
-National Honor Society
-World Club Journalist
-Takes College classes after school
-JV/Varisty Track & Field
-UIL Writing Events
-Number sense memeber (that is torture)
CS Work:
-Hosted Charity Events for cancer patients, wildlife and the military
-worked on the dance committee
-campus beautification
-school tutor in all subjects (my favorite accomplishment in theee world!)
-Habitat for Humanity
-Volunteers at food bank, nursing homes and with campus activities</p>

<p>Work Experience:
I was a webmaster intern for an Engineering company for a month (Not going into that field at ALL. Pure English)</p>

<p>Honors:
-Distinguished Student
-Honors Student
-Graduating with 14 credit hours of college
-Texas Border Patrol Head of Class Award
-Princeton's LEDA Scholar Award (Second Round: My parents income did not fit into the range to have a full summer ride at princeton)
-Will have my poem published in a book at the college I am going to.
-Number 1 soloist on both flute and saxophone
-was choosen out of 50 girls in the US to play Volleyball in Italy for 2 years (yeah right, like mom would let me get homeschooled) ---that was freshmen year though haha</p>

<p>Facts:
Recieved that President Brown letter? (not much to say)
Had a one-on-one confrontation with my favorite author, James Frey. I was able to locate his assistant and wrote him an outstanding letter that he loved so much, he sends me monthly gifts with his signature on it. He has even read my essays HAHA. Consider us as pen pals.</p>

<p>Essays: I've been writing since I was 6, reading since I was 4...so my essays SHOULD have a "wow" factor. I'm putting my full voice into my writings.
-might submit my poem that was published</p>

<p>Recs: Should be good.</p>

<p>I have a brown representative thats located here. He knows my name, called me a few times to check up on me. I dont know if that may help.</p>

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<p>Excellent except for one thing-standardized tests. You’ll have almost no chance with a 22 ACT.</p>

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<p>Thats what I except from Yale. I’m going to give it another shot this December…but how much could I improve in that amount of time? Not much.</p>

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<p>Chances are extremely small, almost non-existent. Even as a URM your ACT scores are certainly far below the 25th percentile. Maybe you should aim a bit lower with your reaches unless you can improve your score by 5+ points. Everything else is good, but I think that factor will kill you.</p>

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<p>Are you a nervous tester? Or have some sort of problem with testing?</p>

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<p>I am an EXTREME nervous tester. I have bad anxiety attacks to where I cant breathe/and i start shaking. It gets to the point where the numbers on my calculator look like japanese symbols. My doctor is prescribing me medication to calm my nerves.</p>

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<p>lol. I know somone thata got a 25 and got into Yale. But his Dad was a multi-billionaire.</p>

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<p>My friend Jose got in…with like a 27 but he won the bill gates scholarship for both him AND his older brother. HAHA…he wrote his essay…twice. What a genius!</p>

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<p>Unless you can get 30+ on the ACT, you should lower your sights. You’re grades are typical at the schools you’re applying to, and your ECs are good but not amazing.</p>

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<p>ACT 22 is a pain in the a**. I think you SHOULD consult your doctor for some anxiety control.
Out of curiosity, what is your school like? How were the “rare amount of kids” doing comparatively?</p>

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<p>Our school is located right at the border so about a good 2/3rds of the students are spanish speakers. But…as far as the kids that are at the head of the class they have realtively general scores. We do have some 29’s, usually 25’s.<br>
Those that go to Ivy’s…usually its maybe 2 kids out of the graduating class. We have IB scholars and honor scholars that look like a key for “diversity” solely for the location we are in. But, most of these kids usually choose UT at Austin BECAUSE it is the best school in Texas out of the nation. Other than that, I guess you can call it “slim pickin’s”</p>

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<p>I’m from the RGV too haha so I know what you mean about our area…hopefully that’ll boost us. We have to get something, right? I mean its not like we got to go to Stuyvesant High School in NY that feeds all these kids to the Ivies. We have hot cheetos, takis and jumex in our schools dude haha. And I’m asian, for the record</p>

<p>Keep ur test scores up! Try to relax, take something or eat something before the test. Take a load off. I drove to pan am on a whim to take an ACT i wasn’t ready for and I ended up doing really well. You got a couple more test dates, so give those a go. Remember though, you’re more than your numbers (qtd from collegeboard)</p>

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<p>Oh god I love Mexican food! Yepp location is a factor. Good luck with your test~</p>

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<p>Ahh. I drove to STC…That was a terrible.<br>
Our location is more of a hell hole. pretty much. <3</p>

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<p>Your school has 29 tops for ACT and sends a couple of kids per year to Ivies! Jiminy Crickets!</p>

<p>My D’s school has 700 kids. Top 60-70 kids are all above 3.67 (A-) - top 60-70 weighted are all above 4.3 to 4.4.</p>

<p>Each year = 10-20+ National Merit SemiFinalists. Lots and lots of really incredible SAT / ACTs (some perfect scores). It’s a public school, but well respected and rigorous (over 30 AP tests, IB program, etc.) VERY diverse (serves all races/religions, both the very top and bottom of the economic divisions in our large city). Midwest location.</p>

<p>Yet THIS school only sends a few to the Top 10 each year. Last year it was 1 person (same person) to Stanford and Harvard. No one to Yale, Penn, Brown, Princeton, etc.</p>

<p>Suggestion on your effort to obtain medication: My D is a bit aggrevated that so many kids take ADHD meds before these tests. They tell her it helps them a lot. It INFURIATES me. I don’t mean kids that have it prescribed to them…I mean they kids they give/sell it to! My kid has crazy nerves, terrible anxiety, and would definitely be clinically diagnosed ADHD, bi-polar, or both. But I am not letting her get involved with all that labeling/medication. So…if you feel you must be medicated…then PLEASE get enough so that you can take a practice test at home first to see if it really helps you. You MIGHT find it relaxes you TOO much. Maybe not, but…you don’t want to waste a test date finding out. Set up your home as close to test conditions as possible. And make note of WHEN you take the pill, and WHEN you start the test, and note whether or not you start getting drowsy/nodding off. 3-4 hours is a long time. And your practice test won’t be that long. So…just be careful. Good luck.</p>

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<p>I would hate to be on medication but I have been given meds for my anxiety plenty of times. On a whim too–funerals, weddings, etc…anything that gets me flared up. I have OCD too…This is probably ridiculous comming from someone that bombs and pukes on tests, but I have weird habbbbits =/ I cant step on cracks, cant touch chalk (ill vomit, so gross) and I pretty much have to have everything on an odd number. Even numbers really bug me. Wait, multiples of 5 is okay.</p>

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<p>Hate to break it to you, but people with severe psychiatric disorders tend not to do well at places like Yale.</p>

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<p>haha i dont have severe psychiatric disorders. I know how to control myself. I know what it takes–basically, lets program ourselves to be robots.</p>

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<p>a 1700 SAT got into stanford, if you can somehow address your test scores or prove that they arent actually representative of your abilities then you have a chance, a small one but a chance.</p>

<p>and you obv have to be exceptional in just about every other respect…</p>

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<p>^ i agree. your ECs need to be really exceptional. I can’t tell where you really have a passion for something from your list, not really any depth.</p>