<p>I think I'd highlight the science interest/passion that you seem to have a great start on already. I think I'd stay away from "hispanic awareness "- you can certainly help other hispanics, but that may be more valuable once you have some success of your own behind you.
You don't say what area of science you're interested in or what your science "league" or science club do, but anything you can point to as an achievement or leadership in this area would be good.
URM or not, colleges want kids who are passionate about their field.
Looking at your profile, it would seem that you sincerely are, so I would build on that.</p>
<p>what do you think consistutes raising hispanic awareness and how would you go about doing it? would you consider being a tutor or a peer mentor</p>
<p>I help ESL kids who speak spanish as their first language after school once a week with speaking english and stuff like that. And about my focus, I'm really interested in science and politics, r my ecs weak? Thanks for advice guyz, keep it coming.</p>
<p>End,</p>
<p>You state that you have a job where you work 20/wk. Is this just during the summer or is it ayear round job.</p>
<p>Since you are passionate about science, I would keep the science EC's as it is better to have a focus in a few things over a long period of time where you can grow and develop leadership in those areas than to have ECs that are all over the place and really do not connect in any meaningful way (remember it will be quality over quantity)</p>
<p>If you ae working 20/hours per week year round (as you state you are from a low income family) that is also a good thing. working because you need to work especially given your back ground will balance out not having a laundry list of ECs.</p>
<p>being hispanic and showing sincere interest in a school will get you in before a non urm with better stats. that's just the way it is. will your current stats get you into hyp? maybe, but it wouldn't be out of the question. would those numbers get you into williams, swarthmore and possibly amherst? yes if you do the essays right. brown cornell,dartmouth? probably. columbia, penn? iffy</p>
<p>"hyp get almost all the superior urms and they have stats equivalent to non urms, but a cornell seems easily attainable with an sat of 2030. break 2200 and hyp will certainly be within reach."</p>
<p>That is just so inaccurate. It is true that HYP get the best urm applicants, but by no means are these urms averaging a 2200 on the SAT. The non-urm average is probably a light below a 2200 (around 2150) for accepted students. A urm has a great chance at hyp with a 1900+ so long as they are in the top 10% of their class. Just look through the threads.</p>
<p>UCLA adopted holistic review primarily (though they may deny this) because of the extremely small amount of blacks getting in. Make of that what you will.</p>
<p>telletube, my counselor showed me the avg. sat for harvard, and it was 2310 for class of 2010/2011early</p>
<p>early action is a completely different and much stronger pool so that skews it a lot. almost everyone i know who has gotten in early had 2300+ whereas the majority of people i know 4 who got in had scores in the mid 1300's to low 1400's on the old scale. also, the average for harvard on the old SAT was 1450 which converts to 2175 on the new scale.</p>
<p>ohh ok, that's good then..but now since there's no more early action, will the avg. stats of H's app pool go up?</p>