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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Jagshemash! [/end Borat references]</p>

<p>So I'm looking at Yale, Harvard, Penn CAS, University of WA, Northwestern (debate coach rec possible), Dartmouth (debate coach rec possible), UChicago, Tufts, Boston College, Georgetown.</p>

<p>North African Male in Seattle-Area Competitive Public School
American Citizen
First Language: Arabic, Fluent in English, French, competent in Spanish
2130 SAT
SAT II: 740 Spanish, 700 US History, 690 Bio-E (750+ expected on French, took it today)
~Top 15% class rank, 4.2 GPA</p>

<p>National AP Scholar, 4.44/5 avg on 9 exams (taken w/ classes) so far
National Merit Commended
National Honor Society (since 10th grade)</p>

<p>"Special" circumstances: I don't know how much this is helpful, but my coach noted in a supplementary rec that I missed over 30 days of school last year, and a similar/slightly smaller number the year before traveling for debate/DECA</p>

<p>RECS:
Counselor (Excellent, in line with teacher recs--see below)
Teacher 1 (Top few in career, told me he noted that I was the most accomplished student he has seen in 36 years of teaching)
Teacher 2 (Top few in career, includes a very flattering quote from the district superintendent about my writing and me in general)
Teacher 3 (Supplementary) - my debate advisor/journalism teacher, explained how I essentially ran the team and spent massive amounts of time traveling to tournaments around the country etc., and was generally extremely complimentary (top few in career)</p>

<p>ESSAYS:
Very solid, I guess it's hard to quantify your own writing, but judging by the feedback I've gotten they won't be hurting me.</p>

<p>EC's:
I'm going to abbreviate here, but:</p>

<p>Debate
- I'm President of my school's team, co-founded the program my freshman year.
- Ranked #1 in Pacific Northwest, #3 on West Coast
- One of 5 debaters nationwide on the national team that will be representing the US at the World Championships in South Korea
- Qualified to and cleared at Nationals as a sophomore</p>

<p>DECA (Financial Analysis):
- Regional Champion (2006)
- State Champion (2006)
- Top 10 at Int'l Conference in Dallas (2006)
- Chapter Public Relations Officer (elected position, over 50 chapter members)</p>

<p>INTERNSHIP (summer 2005)
Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt (UNESCO cultural institute)
- Their first-ever high school intern (they usually only accept college interns)
- Did alot of interesting, useful stuff that I won't detail here, including helping design a writing course that was destined to be a requirement for 800 Bibliotheca staff members.</p>

<p>NEWSPAPER (since 10th grade)
Chief Copy Editor
Columbia Scholastic Press Assoc. awarded our paper a Gold medal, which is actually really good (not a generic, easy to get award)</p>

<p>CREW
Not good enough to get recruited, but it's something I'd be interested in continuing in some sort of non-intercollegiate level arrangement in college. Also, it's a 15hr/week commitment.</p>

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<p>btw i applied SCEA to yale</p>

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<p>do you go to wenatchee high school?</p>

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<p>no i don't, i live on the eastside</p>

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<p>regardless, a good chance you're in. SATs are a bit on the low side along with gpa/rank, but your ECs should compensate.</p>

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<p>and freaking stupid affirmative action might tip u in</p>

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<p>I don't think North Africans are URMs.</p>

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<p>he's american citizen, so technically african american</p>

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<p>But blacks are the one's who are under represented. I don't think the whites/Arabs in North Africa are.</p>

<p>But having priority because of your race is wrong.</p>

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<p>so uh.... instead of this devolving into an affirmative action discussion, which I personally don't know if I will benefit from (I've heard both that others from the same region who apply are considered African-American and that they are not considered African-American), could we get back on topic?</p>

<p>Where do I have a chance if I do not benefit from Affirmative Action (which is perhaps likely)? Do y'all recommend I apply to other schools that seem to fit my interests? I'm applying as a Near Eastern Language & Civilizations major, but I will probably also try to double major (wherever that would be possible) in Political Science.</p>

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<p>you should look into columbia's easternlang & civil. department. i have a friend who goes there and is majoring in eastern languages and culture, he says it's phenomenal.</p>

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<p>Yea, North Africans are legally SubContinental Caucasian. So you're white.</p>

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<p>ok so now that we've established what my race is can we move to a more substantive discussion?</p>

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<p>No one can establish your race except yourself. Just make the right decision and everything will be alright.</p>

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<p>it's goooood, i like! We say in kazakhstan, when you..a...have good score for ivy league, you need to..a...have goood essays, for...how you say..icing on cake...so wa wa wee wa, write goood essays and you have gooood shot.</p>

<p>chinquee</p>

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<p>directorscut:
i know this, i wasn't waiting for CC to tell me what my race is lol</p>

<p>this whole discussion reminds me of the south park negroplasty episode</p>

<p>anyway, i'm off to play some shurik, where we shoot dog in field and have a party! great success!</p>

<p>also: stop assuming i'm white. maybe if you actually knew anything about the region of North Africa you would realize that "north african" can literally mean as dark as a sub-saharan African or as light as an Italian.</p>

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<p>assuming you are marking white, you have match chances (85%) at all schools except yale and harvard, where you would have decently strong chances (25-50% depending on essays).</p>

<p>good luck!</p>

<p>Just a side note, I have a friend who is a Muslim Egyptian Arab with a brown skin color who marked Asian when he applied to college. He had a 2120 SAT and a 3.8 UW GPA. He got into all the colleges he applied to except for Princeton and is now at Harvard.</p>

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<p>hahhaha, "Hai faive" was definitely the funniest line in the entire movie</p>

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<p>re: your friend</p>

<p>that's very interesting, I would be lying if I marked asian since my ancestry is decidedly north african (morocco, algeria) mixed with nubian (sudan, southern egypt), and I definitely don't identify as asian. What I did is I marked "african american" as well as "other" and wrote in "north african." I thought that was the best representation of who I was, as well as the most honest.</p>

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<p>err... is this LD Debate? If so i doubt you're 3rd on the west coast.</p>