Chances for ILR?

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<p>Hey everyone! what do you guys think my chances are at a nice little acceptance letter? Thanks! I'll be applying RD.</p>

<p>ACT: 27. I don't really know what happened, but I'm taking the December test. Hopefully shooting for a 30+. If you can chance me for both scores ( 27 and hopeful 30) that'd be awesome.</p>

<p>SAT 2: Math Lvl 2: 600
Spanish: 710
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.8</p>

<p>AP: French, Spanish Language, Spanish Literature, Chemistry, Calculus
IB (place score in parenthesis):Full IB <---death. School that does the IB program won very prestigious award for international focus.</p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load:
@ High School :
AP Spanish
AP Chemistry
AP Calculus
AP/IB Spanish Literature
IB Lit
IB History
IB theory of knowledge
IB Projects
@ College
International Economics
Writing Class
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): </p>

<p>Varsity Tennis (captain), Varsity Soccer ( captain), ASB President, NHS, Drama( costumes), EIHS President ( the IB school, that won goldman sach's award for international focus, inside of my school, i can explain if I need to), on the YAT which is a group of students on the board of education for my state. we are advisors for the superintendent.</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: None</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community service: Over 150 hours, 100 in spanish by senior year. I started and lead a group that goes around my city and helps hispanics that are having trouble with school because of a language barrier and tutor them one on one. By the end of senior year, i would guess that I would have 200+</p>

<p>Summer Activities: Taking a course at University and doing community service. Also visiting colleges.
Essays: I have a couple ideas. Talking about teachers and how they transformed me. Especially french.
Teacher Recommendation:I have solid ones.
Counselor Rec: she loves me</p>

<p>Male Hispanic on the West coast, i'm not from Cali though. Not first generation college student.</p>

<p>Thanks everyone!</p>

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<p>43 views and 0 posts? anyone? thanks</p>

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<p>And I guess I forgot to put this in the original post, but what do you think I’d have a better chance at, ILR or the Hotel school? Any input is welcomed, thanks guys!!</p>

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<p>ILR. You have no work experience, which is a big no-no for the hotel school.</p>

<p>You have subpar test scores but a 3.8 UW gpa, red flag. Your community service is about the only “labor/public service” thing on your application.</p>

<p>I dunno, try writing fantastic essays about how you want to study labor and international relations and whatnot.</p>

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<p>So I would have a better chance of getting into ILR?</p>

<p>IF I did write fantastic essays how do you think i’d do?</p>

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<p>I just want one or two more comments. anyone?</p>

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<p>Someone should be able to look at your profile and say, “without a doubt this kid is applying to ILR” or “def Hotelie”. You have a lot of activities, but there is no underlying theme. </p>

<p>Cornell talks about “fit” all the time and that’s where your theme comes in. Keywords should be popping out as someone reads your application: labor, union, politics, social justice, equity, labor history, job prospects, job experience, HR etc. etc (granted, I only mentioned a few of these when I applied). </p>

<p>You did IB so you have a broad international perspective on things. It’d might be interesting to relate that to labor and talk about your experience with employment differences overseas.</p>

<p>For Hotel it’d be customer service, business, management, entrepreneurship etc.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Well if this matters at all, I’m the president of EIHS which is the IB school and within that we do loans to people all around the world. Maybe for my essay I could talk about that.</p>