<p>Hey Everyone I am a male living in Houston Texas. I am half peruvian and half bolivian .. . im jewish . . and im homeschooled. what are my chances for these schools?:</p>
<p>MIT
Stanford
Rice (ED)
Johns Hopkins
Carnegie Mellon
Cornell
University of Texas at Austin</p>
<p>I greatly appreciate it.</p>
<p>I have a 4.0 GPA (unweighted). As I am homeschooled, I have no class rank.</p>
<p>Calculus BC AP
Physics B AP
Macroeconomics AP
Latin IV
US Government
English IV
Music Theory</p>
<p>EC's:
competitive tennis for 5 years(won 26 statewide tournaments)
piano for 10 years(won a full scholarship to go to China for a summer because of my talent)
founder and president of a homeschooling book club: 2 years
golf for 3 years
Internship in a fleamarket:3 years
homeschool rhetoric club: 1 year (treasurer)</p>
<p>Volunteer:
Tennis assistant coach at a Jewish Community Center: 50 hours
Taught underprivileged kids piano: 25 hours
Tutored underprivileged kids in math: 25 hours
English Teachers Assistant: 150 hours</p>
<p>Summer:
9th Grade: Went to Peru to study geological formations on the Andes
10th Grade: Went to China on a full scholarship(only member of my family to leave the Americas)
11th Grade: Attended a Precollege Program at Johns Hopkins University(Intro to Calculus;Intro to Oceanography; recieved A's in both of them)</p>
<p>Awards:
National Merit Semifinalist(219)
National Hispanic Recognotion
Ventures Scholar
26 tennis gold medals
8 golf gold medals</p>
<p>Essay: should be good; Recs: one extremely good, one good
Extra: my mom was physically handicapped for most of her life(i dont know if that will help, but whatever)
I want to major in Biomedical Engineering. Do you recommend any other schools that fit my needs? </p>
<p>Wow... you sound fascinating... but I'm sorry, I honestly don't feel qualified to judge your "chances" anywhere. If I were a college I'd love to have you. :)</p>
<p>(I think people will mention the "paltry" number of AP classes/scores you have, and perhaps your "low SATs"--though really, the SAT scores look fine to me.)</p>
<p>My family will probably move to Ecuador after I graduate. O_O</p>
<p>Hahahaha CRbomber650... that's exactly what I got on CR... :P </p>
<p>You have enough stuff..now all you need is the luck to get selected! Schools like MIT and Stanford are really unpredictable--they turn away people with perfect scores and accept lower-score people. It really is dififcult to understand...either way they are reaches.. </p>
<p>Cornell should be a match, the rest are match/safeties..</p>
<p>I believe you have a class rank of 1/1, making you either Valedictorian or last in your class. 1480 SAT is good for JHU, Rice, CMU, and UT. JHU and Rice are still slight reaches. Out of curiosity, who determines your grades? Cornell is not a match (it's an ivy league school, my goodness) bt you still have a good chance. Of course, urm status helps a lot here. MIT and Stanford are reaches.</p>
<p>Haha a hispanic Jew. That's pretty baller. Nice to see another Jew on board. I have no idea on your chances since this whole thing is a crapshoot, but good luck bro.</p>
<p>btw..u full Jewish? I say that because your Jewish religion may negate your Hispanic status. It isn't fair, but, let's put it this way...most universities aren't exactly looking for more Jews, lol..</p>
<p>The last time I checked, colleges do not ask what your religion is. However, if CRBomber650 were to mention that he is Jewish, I seriously doubt it would hurt him and it may help him.</p>
<p>To the poster: You sound so unique, I'd be very interested in where you end up. (I'm sorry but I can't chance you, I'm terrible at these things.)</p>
<p>Jewish is regarded as an enthnicity of sorts, and it is one which is treated in a similar manner to Asians. Jews and Asians have a disproportionally large number of high academic achievers. I don't see how putting down Jewish could possibily help you. If I were you, I wouldn't emphasize it.
(in the same way that Asians often don't mark ethnicity in trying to avoid the anti-affirmative action)</p>
<p>As a Jewish mom- I'd say emphasis the Hispanic part. There really is no where on the application that you specify religion- but you can identify your ethnicity as being Hispanic. I do not think being Jewish is going to help you get into any schools, so unless you can write a GREAT essay about being a Hispanic Jew it can go unnoticed on your application.
Texas-homeschooled-Hispanic-- 2200 SAT's--National Merit. I think you have a shot at everything.
PS one of my co-workers: Wife Jewish. He's Cuban and the kids have his Hispanic surname. Very good students but stats not as good as yours. One went to Cornell- other Columbia. Trust me- the Hispanic background helped.
Good luck!!</p>
<p>PPS- I think Duke is supposed to have a good Bio-Engineering school too.</p>
<p>Karl Marks:most(not all) of my classes were taken at EPGY distance learning or my community college(dual credit), and both managed my grades on the courses </p>
<p>HeavenWood:im not full jewish. i dont keep kosher.</p>
<p>i like how the topic of this thread is "HISPANIC JEW"...do you really expect that to help you at all? maybe being a URM, but your religion has no affect on college admissions, and if it does, im moving to europe</p>
<p>newsflash: religion has VERY LITTLE influence on college admissions...gender, yes, race, unfortuently yes...but not religion (unless youre applying to a religious school)</p>
<p>and by very little i mean that it matters as much as a hair on an elephants butt</p>