Chances for Yale, Brown, Cornell, Swarthmore, Carnegie Mellon, Amherst

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Native American female, first generation, low-income from Maine
Junior
Public HS, GPA UW 3.94 W 4.5
Top 2% in class of 359</p>

<p>PSAT score - 219 [68 CR 75 M 76 W]
SAT 2s - Lit 740 Math 2 790 Spanish 660 [colleges only consider top 2, right?]
No SAT or AP scores yet.</p>

<p>Will have taken 9 AP classes by end of senior year, 17 total honors courses.</p>

<p>School Activities
JV Indoor Track (9) Varsity (10,11,12)
-- Placed 7th in regional championships grade 10, 3rd in regionals grade 11. [shot put]
-- PVC All-Conference 2nd team (11)
-- Throwing captain grades 10,11,12
JV Spring Track (9) Varsity (10,11,12)
-- Placed 1st in JV Championship, 4th in Freshman Championship grade 9 [shot put]
-- Placed 6th in shot put, 12th in javelin Regionals grade 10
-- Probably throwing captain grade 12
Amnesty International (10,11,12)
-- President (11, 12)
-- Attended ACLU conference grade 10
JETS (9, 10, 11, 12)
-- Team ranks 1st in state every year
New England Math League (9, 10, 11, 12)
Math Team (9, 10, 11, 12)
-- Math team has 150 participants on 6 teams.
-- Co-captain of our top team grades 11, 12.. we win regionals every year and are in top 5 in state.
-- Placed 17th out of 880 at state math meet grade 10
-- Invited to New England Invitational Math Meet grades 9, 10, 11 [prob. 12]
NHS (11, 12)
Chorus (9, 10)
-- Attended Heritage Music Festival, grade 9
Took AMC-12 grades 9, 10, 11 [12], qualified for AIME grades 9 and 11
Academic Decathlon (9, 10, 11, 12)
-- Have earned medals in various categories grades 9, 10
Debate Team (11,12)
-- Won various awards for Lincoln-Douglas debate (11)</p>

<p>Summer Activities
Future Teacher's Academy (2007, 2008)
-- Selective program offered by UMaine, 10 or fewer students chosen to participate per year.
Volunteer at local Boy Scout Camp (2007, 2008, 2009)
-- Live and work full-time (9 weeks) at the best Boy Scout camp in the United States, unpaid worker. i teach indian lore to boy scouts and crafts to cub scouts.
-- Over 3 years, will have logged 1500+ hours of work [volunteer time]
American Folk Festival (2007, 2008, 2009) [24 hours over 3 years]</p>

<p>Volunteering
Big Brothers Big Sisters (10, 11, 12)
-- About 25 hours per year</p>

<p>Other Awards
Departmental awards in Math and Spanish (10)
Sophomore Award for Academic Excellence (10), basically 3 honors classes and above a 3.5 weighted..</p>

<p>Looking at psychology or self-designed major.. what are my chances? Sorry for the lengthy EC list by the way.. I might have forgotten something, but oh well. It's a bit early, but I have no idea if I'm aiming for the right schools or should be aiming lower. Please help?</p>

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<p>Native American female, first generation, low-income from Maine + Top 2% in class of 359 = in at all</p>

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<p>I haven’t seen any REAL Native Americans on CC. Haha</p>

<p>I think you have great chances for all those schools.</p>

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<p>haha, yes, i am a real native american. should i have some safeties on my list?? i don’t know what would be reaches, slight reaches, whatever.. anyone else have advice? thanks a lot for the help!</p>

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<p>If you want to add some safeties consider Harvard, Stanford & Princeton.</p>

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<p>i second icy9ff8’s comment</p>

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<p>^ lol @ icy9ff8…it’s true though.</p>

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<p>have any of you actually ever seen a native american’s result thread? </p>

<p>just curious.</p>

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<p>thanks a lot, guys. what is a result thread? like, a post after someone gets into a college?
i haven’t seen any other native americans on the boards at all, but i also don’t go on CC much [50ish posts since 8/06]. it would be interesting to see the percentage of natives that get into top-tier colleges that apply…</p>

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<p>i agree with everyone else in saying that you will probably get into all of those schools. or you definitely should. but, i would add one safety just in case- it can’t hurt.
good luck!</p>

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<p>Just curious…not interested in Dartmouth? Under the impression the school is attractive to Native Americans, not sure why exactly. 4% of the student body is.</p>

<p>Attended my nephew’s graduation from Dartmouth couple yrs ago. There were several families of grads who wore traditional Native clothing to the ceremony, including the graduates themselves.</p>

<p>Agree good chance at all.</p>

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<p>What about Barnard??? It has got a thirty percent admission rate and is Columbia’s sister college so you could take classes there. I personally love it. But, you seem to want more suburban colleges, in which case I think you should look at Wesleyan. Oh and you should check out the Claremont consotium, I think you’d have a good time at any of those schools.</p>

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<p>Dartmouth is attractive to Native Americans because of Michael Dorris, author of a yellow raft on blue water, and a broken chord to name a few. </p>

<p>He wrote a lot about Native Americans, and started (i believe) the native american studies program at dartmouth. </p>

<p>his books are spectacular.</p>

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<p>Dartmouth has the best native american resources in the country. I would highly consider it.</p>

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<p>my GC actually keeps pushing me towards Dartmouth. i really have my heart set on brown [and yale, to an extent] and didn’t want to apply to 4 ivies. i’ll definitely think about it, though; i have a bit until i apply. thanks for all the advice!</p>

<p>quick question: are the claremont colleges out in california? i probably could look it up online, but isn’t that the consortium with harvey mudd? they have cool brochures XD</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t discriminate against Dartmouth just because its Ivy. Its totally worth a shot given the resources there. Pomona is one of the Claremont Colleges, I love the school personally.</p>