Chances at a Full-Ride?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hello!</p>

<p>I am going to be entering my Junior year of High School on the fall. Most likely the only way that I will be able to go to a 4-year school is if I get a pretty large scholarship. That said, I am not hoping for a full-ride to an Ivy, as I know how unlikely that is. I am looking at more smaller, private colleges than larger, public universities.</p>

<p>Here is my information.</p>

<p>Academics:
-Right now, I have a 5.0625/5.0 Weighted GPA and a 5.0/5.0 unweightes GPA. I plan to tale 8 more AP's, that that number should go up.
-I am ranked #1 out of 350 at my school.
-I'm predicting a 33-34 on my ACT, which I just took. If I don't get it this time, I plan on studying enough to achieve it when I take it with my class next year.
-I have received 2 Student of the Term awards, in Social Studies and Fine Arts (Foreign Languge) for French.</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
- Drum Major of my schools marching and pep band. (for those who aren't well-versed in band, the drum major is the student leader of the band)
-Secretary of school band
-Volunteer at my public library
- Member of my school's Mathletes Team
- Founder and President of my school's newly created Science Club
- Two year member of the conference honors band in my area
- Creater of a book blog. I hope to get this posted on my public library's website.
- I am working on getting a few pieces publishes in my local newspaper. I believe that I will succeed in this endeavor.
- one year membership in my school's "Peer Leadership" team</p>

<p>Does anyone have any of my opinions on my chances of recieving a large scholarship?</p>

<p>Also, what can I do to increase my chances of recieving one?</p>

<p>I am interested in becoming an Actuary. Does anyone have any ideas on what I can do to beef up my extracurricular list so that it looks for attractive for being accepted into an Actuarial Science undergrade program?</p>

<p>I'm so sorry that this is so long! I am just very curious about what you all think! </p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>well a full ride to an ivy is quite literally impossible, unless you qualify for extreme financial aid, because they DO NOT GIVE OUT MERIT SCHOLARSHIPS!!! not a single one. (just to inform you, i know you said you didn’t necessarily want that, i was just informing you of this fact :slight_smile: ). Okay, anyway, so your stats are nice and all, but you HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO HOOKS!!! HOOKS ARE WHAT YOU NEED FOR A SCHOLARSHIP!!! Apply for the belk scholarship at davidson (small private liberal arts school in NC #9 ranking) and see what happens. otherwise, I’m not really seeing anything happening for you… sorry.</p>

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<p>What sort of things would you consider good hooks? I’ve looked around online a lot, but no one in my family has any experience in these types of things. I don’t know what would be a good “hook” to have.</p>

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<p>You either have a hook or you don’t.</p>

<p>Some of the well known ones are - being a minority (Asians are overrepresented in colleges and so it won’t apply at most popular schools), being first in your family to go to college, being recruitable athlete or being a legacy at a college where you are applying (one of your parents attended is the strongest legacy).</p>

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<p>So basically, since I was born Caucasian, my mom went to college, and not the college I want to go to, and I’m not an athlete, then I’m don’t have a hook? Isnt that a little unfair? There must be something I can do.</p>

<p>And I’m not necessarily disagreeing with what your saying, just disagreeing with the whole thought process of “Well, there’s nothing you can do.”</p>

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<p>You have a hook if you want to go to your mom’s college so you cant say you dont have one. Legacy is a small hook with a big reach if it applies.</p>

<p>Everyone else gets in on their own merit. So it just means you were good enough without any extraneous factors getting you in.</p>