CHANCES OF MINORITY GETTING INTO AN IVY LEAGUE? Will Chance back!

<p>Colleges:
Harvard
Stanford
Yale
UPenn
Columbia
Brown
Cornell
NYU
Duke
USC
Berkeley
UCLA</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Mexican (1st generation Mexican-American)</p>

<p>Major: Economics/Undergrad Business</p>

<p>Accepted: got accepted with a Merit Scholarship to USC Marshall School of Business</p>

<p>SAT: 2250 (760,760,730)</p>

<p>GPA: 4.44</p>

<p>IB: IB Diploma Student</p>

<p>AP: 5,5,5,5,4 (AP Scholar with Distinction) (taking 5 more AP's senior year)</p>

<p>Athletics: Varsity Soccer Captain. starter since freshman year. MVP since sophomore year. all-league team. scholar athlete. CIF quarterfinalists.
Club Soccer. Captain for 10 years. Numerous tournament/league championships. Traveled to Mexico for 1 month to play soccer with team. </p>

<p>Extracurriculars: FBLA (8th place state finalist in Job Interview). National Honors Society. American Legion California Boy's State. </p>

<p>Awards: National Hispanic Scholar. AP Scholar with Distinction. CSF. Principal's Honor Roll.</p>

<p>Volunteer: Soccer Assistant Coach (approx. 250 hours)
Soccer Camp Counselor/Coach (approx. 75)</p>

<p>Work Experience: Business Internship at a University's entrepreneurship department</p>

<p>Uh nothing else comes to mind. Chances? Affirmative Action?</p>

<p>There’s pretty much no way your application can be any better… you being a minority is just the extra push that will help you. You’ve really outdone yourself, great job.</p>

<p>Accepted into:</p>

<p>NYU
Duke
USC
Berkeley
UCLA</p>

<p>All ivy leagues I can’t really say, but you should be a match for all :)</p>

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<p>I would second that, and I’d also bet $100 that you’ll get into Cornell.</p>

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<p>“Club Soccer. Captain for 10 years.”</p>

<p>Wow. Nice resume. How old are you? You’ve been playing club soccer for 10 years? With captains? SoCal? What club? if you don’t mind me asking…</p>

<p>I’m turning 18 next month and I started playing club when I was 8. I play in the Coast Soccer League and have played at the Gold and Premier level. Considering playing in college but not my top priority seeing as how it’s a big commitment in college and the only Division I schools i got interest from were local (SoCal) and not anywhere near Ivy League status in terms of academics. I may try out as a walk on or maybe just play intramural which sounds a lot more fun. I want to study abroad and not have to worry about waking up for 7am practices during season. Depends on how much I miss soccer once i get into college really.</p>

<p>Wow, Yeah, your application can’t get any better.
For EC’s however, the sports part is great, but you dont have as much academic clubs as most.
So I’d say you’re a shoo in everywhere but Harvard, Stanford, and Yale.
You’re a low reach there.</p>

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<p>Thats pretty amazing. My son has been playing club since he was 10. It’s almost 10 PM and he’s not even home from practice yet! I can’t imagine him doing several AP/IB classes and all that other stuff.</p>

<p>@shinkrap: Thanks. Ya its definitely not easy, especially when high school soccer and club overlap. High school practice from 2-5Pm then Club from 6-9Pm -___- It’s not easy to start homework and/or study for 7 AP/IB classes at 10PM when you’re dead tired and have at least 4 hours of homework.</p>

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<p>Ivy League’s are a wild card, you can have the top grades and many ec’s but won’t get in. You do have to have a killer essay.</p>

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<p>Great stuff dude. I wish you the best of luck for all of these schools. The Ivies are a crapshoot, I wish you the best.</p>

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<p>Great stuff. What is your projected IB score (out of 45)?</p>

<p>I’m calling BS on this. You can’t be an IB diploma student AND be an AP scholar, for the latter you have to take the actual classes. Also, I doubt you could take what you learn in IB and apply that to score well on the AP exams.</p>

<p>And in any case, even if this was true, this is merely a brag topic at it’s finest. You have good stats, and you’re freaking mexican.</p>

<p>@raikoben: It’s actually possible to do AP and IB at the same time. My school combines the two if you’re in the diploma program so you take an AP class that makes you do IB curriculum at the same time (internal assessments and whatnot).</p>

<p>Wow, just pick any of those schools, I think you could get into any of them.</p>

<p>Help me out :)</p>

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<p>Definitely a good shot at all. I would say it’s fairly likely at all schools but the top six. Of the top six, you’ll probably get into a couple, but it’s hard to predict which.</p>

<p>Your SAT is decent but could be higher; nice GPA; ECs are perhaps the only deficiency, and even then, you’re hardly lacking there. URM status may tip you over if you’re borderline; I don’t know how much it’ll help, though.</p>

<p>Your resume is impressive for a URM, definitely competitive at all of the mentioned schools (which is vaguely worded on purpose, schools of that caliber are complete crapshoots).</p>