Chances for Male Hispanic

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Incoming junior
Hispanic male <em>Mexican-American to be specific, first generation American</em>
School: Small, elite private school in Indianapolis, Indiana with about 450-500 in high school
No ranking
Straight 4.0 scale <em>A+s count as A’s</em> and honors and AP’s aren’t weighted
Unweighted GPA as of now is cumulative about a 3.45, but I do have for my first two years probably one of the top 5 hardest curriculums
About 15%-20% go to Ivy or Ivy caliber schools</p>

<p>PSAT (without having studied, but I am going to now)
M- 64
W- 62
CR- 69</p>

<p>I expect to get math up to at least a 720, critical reading at least 730 and writing at least a 700.</p>

<p>Haven’t taken any SAT IIs yet, but let’s say my three best will be around 720 or above level.</p>

<p>Classes: (Take in mind that besides freshman and sophomore English, there aren’t “honors” courses, but they basically are)</p>

<p>9th Grade (about a 3.66)
English 1+
Western Civilizations
Algebra 2/Trigonometry <em>No honors for this because “everything is honors”</em>
Latin 3
Biology
Intro to Drama
Health
P.E.
Speech</p>

<p>10th Grade (about a 3.26)
English 2+
Nonwestern Civilizations
Precalculus
Latin 4 AP <em>Catullus and Ovid</em>
Chemistry
Macroeconomics <em>Not an AP at school for some reason, but we take the AP exam</em>
Microeconomics AP <em>Waiting for AP exam score</em>
Etymology
Photography</p>

<p>11th Grade
English 3 AP
US History <em>Taking regular class, but will probably take the AP exam</em>
Calculus 1 AP
Latin 5 AP <em>Vergil</em>
Physics
Political Philosophy
Government <em>Not an AP, but we take the AP exam</em>
Philosophies of Knowing 1 <em>Part of Global Scholars Program to be explained later</em></p>

<p>12th Grade
English 4 AP
AP World History
AP Stats
Environmental Science
<em>Possibly taking Greek after school with my Latin teacher who knows Greek, but doesn’t have enough periods in day to teach a Greek class</em>
Philosophies of Knowing 2 <em>Part of Global Scholars Program to be explained later</em></p>

<p>Global Scholars, similar to IB program, is a program in which you must maintain a grade no lower than a B- in any class for Junior and Senior years, must take 5 AP exams by end of high school, have 200 community service hours between Junior and Senior years, and take the Philosophies of Knowing class both years, and at the end of senior year, present your huge paper similar to a thesis on whatever topic you chose to write on for those two years. It is a big paper as a project that you work on through those two years.</p>

<p>EC’s:
Student Council 9-12
Class secretary 9-10
President of Young Democrats of America Club at school grades <em>include a bunch of events of whatever that I have no idea of now, but a lot of things that will be done with this group in the upcoming years</em> 10-12
Diversity Club/Anti-Defamation Club
Speech and Debate, Speech 9, 11-12, Debate 9-10
JV Tennis 9
Varsity Tennis 10-12 <em>State Champs during 10th grade and probable state champs next two years</em>
JV Baseball 9-10
Varsity Baseball 10-12 <em>Moved up from JV to V sophomore year and earned a starting spot</em>
Teen Court <em>Juror and Lawyer in program for teens who admittedly commit crimes and come to Teen Court for trial and to receive a punishment to rehabilitate them (things like community service, restitution, etc)</em></p>

<p>Summer:
Dartmouth Debate Workshop summer of 2006
College Class on Ethics at IUPUI for college and high school credit summer of 2007
<em>Probably another college class in town or a summer program at some Northeastern college or something next year or two</em></p>

<p>Community Service:
Teen Court <em>Juror and Lawyer in program for teens who admittedly commit crimes and come to Teen Court for trial and to receive a punishment to rehabilitate them (things like community service, restitution, etc)</em>
Anti Defamation Workshop in summer of 2005
Numerous school Community Service opportunities like delivering food to needy people during holidays and just things like that</p>

<p>Schools: <em>I do realize a lot of these are like beyond reaches, but I just want to know like how big of a reach they are haha</em></p>

<p>Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Columbia <em>Dream school</em>
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth
Georgetown <em>Dream school</em>
Boston College
Boston University
NYU
GWU
University of Chicago
Vanderbilt
Johns Hopkins</p>

<p>Thanks for all your help. If you could go through each individually and say chances that’d be great. Thanks.</p>

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<p>Oh yea, I am joining the Academic Team next year and will be part of the English team. Also, a big thing I forgot was DECA <em>a business competition with a bunch of events</em> and I got 3rd in the district and like 7th in state with the 3rd best scoreee on the Marketing Section and top 10 scores on the Written Test. Hopefully, I will get top 3 within the next 2 years and make it to nationals/internationals.</p>

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<p>haha sry, but another ting. projected high school gpa including junior and senior year is a 3.5 unweighted</p>

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<p>help anyone?</p>

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<p>Harvard: Extreme Reach
Yale: Extreme Reach
Princeton: Extreme Reach
Columbia: Big reach
Cornell: Big Reach
Brown: Extreme Reach
Dartmouth: Extreme reach
Georgetown: Reach
Boston College: Low Reach
Boston University: Match
NYU: Match/reach
GWU: Match/reach
University of Chicago: Reach
Vanderbilt: Reach
Johns Hopkins: Reach</p>

<p>You need matches and safeties. Dont take ur chances and find out later that u got into mayby one or int he worst case none. </p>

<p>From what I gater ur looking at schools in the Northeast or Midwest:
Here are matches and or safeties:</p>

<ul>
<li>American</li>
<li>Ohio State</li>
<li>Michigan State</li>
<li>Miami (OH)</li>
<li>Fordham</li>
<li>Syracuse</li>
</ul>

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<p>Acarta, don't forget that he's first generation Mexican-American. Seems like you're comparing playtowin to Caucasians. Don't listen to Acarta, playtowin. Affirmative Action is definitely going your way. I would strongly assert that you have a good chance (I dunno, let's say >80%?) as of now at all your schools, including Harvard and the top Ivies. However, if you want guaranteed success, do try to improve your GPA significantly to mostly A's. Try your best on your SATs (try to aim for 1900-2000). Have you considered applying to MITES (MIT's Minority Introduction to Engineer. and Sciences) because if you get into that program, you will be guaranteed the top universities. I wonder whether you go to Park Tudor...but anways, as of now, you are a candidate.</p>

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<p>"I expect to get math up to at least a 720, critical reading at least 730 and writing at least a 700.</p>

<p>Haven’t taken any SAT IIs yet, but let’s say my three best will be around 720 or above level."</p>

<p>too much speculation to give a good chance</p>

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<p>but as kind of a general rule (not true at some schools), take the acceptance rate and add 10% if you're hispanic and 20% if you're black. not even kidding.</p>

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<p>haha i do go to park tudor. howd u no? and yea i figure took much speculation but as let's just say i expect at least 2100 on sat, around 700 per section. ya, i just put those as the top schools to c. i do have safeties and i figured my 3 matches wud b like GWU, NYU, BU</p>

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<p>Well, lets just say I might know you...and you might just...know me...haha jk..i go to school near Indy and I know that Park Tudor's good at friggin Tennis (you said state champs so thats where i got that info)...</p>

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<p>but anyways, I strongly suggest you apply to the MITES 2008 summer program cuz i think you'll enjoy it</p>

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<p>im not a big science guy tho. do u play tennis also? where u go to school?</p>

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<p>also, i was in the National Spelling Bee in middle school and a movie in 8th grade. Akeelah and the Bee. i doubt it means anyting sicne it was middle school, but like wud tat b sumtin to put down? even fi thru an essay sumhow. i dunno. and wen appling to college and puttin possible majors, even tho i dont tink id go into linguistics and prolly law, if i put linguistics also since im still nto sure, wud tat help since its not a really common major?</p>

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<p>North Central...yall beat us, if i recall correctly. my wrist was ****ed up from playin bball.</p>

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<p>watd u play tis year wit them?</p>

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<p>singles....i gottta go eat. perhaps ill post later..good luck</p>

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<p>so JV? i played JV 1 and 2 for the year, but had varisty letter. did i play u? haha</p>

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<p>also, i was in the National Spelling Bee in middle school and a movie in 8th grade. Akeelah and the Bee. i doubt it means anyting sicne it was middle school, but like wud tat b sumtin to put down? even fi thru an essay sumhow. i dunno. and wen appling to college and puttin possible majors, even tho i dont tink id go into linguistics and prolly law, if i put linguistics also since im still nto sure, wud tat help since its not a really common major?</p>

<p>and how much does being a first generation mexican-american ctually help wit the schools tat i put down?</p>

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<p>Damn, if you were in the national spelling bee, you should start up a Spell Bowl team at Park Tudor. You have the right and privilege to do that lol. Then, cuz park tudor i guess is a fairly good school, you'll have enthusiastic members who can def. get the school a state championship, which would definitely impress anyone cuz YOU initiated a program that's won a state title. Spell Bowl, in case you dont no what it is, is hosted by the Indiana Association of School Principles or something like that..the same association that organized Academic super bowl in the state.</p>

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<p>Being first generation helps a LOT. I had an african-american friend who had bad SAT scores but still got into stanford EA. i hav lots of other stories...</p>