Chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Trinity College (Connecticut)
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HS Junior looking for 2015 ED chances

Major: Economics

SAT I (breakdown): 2220, 760 CR, 660 M, 800 W
SAT II: US History - 780 , Lit - 740
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): UW 3.3-3.4
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH, haven’t taken yet
Junior Course Load: Mostly rigorous
Senior Year Course Load: AP Gov, AP Stats, AP English, AP Micro Econ, AP Macro Econ, Honors Pre Calc, Honors Spanish 4, Religion
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Regional debate awards

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
(Founder and President) Non-Profit Organization that has raised thousands of dollars. Involved in international affairs and is very successful.
Debate Team, Lincoln Douglas Debate (Captain of LD Team 12th grade)
Investment Banking Club (Co-Founder and Co-President)
Student Board of regional bank (selective process)
Community Service
-Volunteer on Saturdays at dog kennel
-Volunteer on Thursdays to tutor African refugee children

Job/Work Experience: Acting as CEO of self-started non-profit organization. No income

Summer Activities: Will be traveling to Alaska to help manage my organization.

Hooks: URM with high SATs, not from area where schools are, no one from my school has applied (at least not in the last 5 years) to Trinity

State (if domestic applicant): North Carolina
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: Male
Income: ~$150k

Weaknesses: GPA obviously. I’ve had a lot of social issues with moving between states and such. I know colleges don’t accept that as a valid excuse, but that’s the truth.

Essays: Have already began working on essays, hope to be amazing to make up for poor GPA

Reflection: Obviously my GPA is low for Trinity, but I feel that I can partially balance it out with my other strong attributes (SATs, ECs, essays, hooks) since Trinity so heavily promotes ‘holistic’ and diverse admissions. I will be applying ED1 2015

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My money says you would get in early decision and u have a decent chance without it. My stats were 2270 SAT 780, 740 on Chemistry and Biology SAT II. 33 on ACT. 3.8 GPA, top 25 graduating from a class of around 800. So very similar other than GPA. I did not apply ED and they gave me a scholarship. So I feel like they would give you admission because a lot of our measurables are similar.

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Trinity Colleges SATs are for the 25%-75% at about 580-680. Parents might be interested to know that is the equivalent to 500-620 when they went to school (they re-centered the SATs since we were young-but did not raise the top score-making a wider range of students look the same). TJNR has the 75% beat by about 80 points and is probably at the 75% for math. The GPA is at the mean for those attending Trinity. Seems like the student would be highly sought after by Trinity.