<p>Do you think my friend has a shot at USC with:</p>
<p>SAT composite score: 2020
SAT II (will take in JAN)</p>
<p>weighted GPA: 4.675
Unweighted GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>senior courseload:
Advanced Rhetoric/ poetry analysis
Intro to Analysis
Multivariable calculus
AP classes: Chinese, Chem, Euro History, Studio Arts, Computer Science</p>
<p>She took AP Calc, AP phys, and AP bio in 10th grade and here are some AP scores:</p>
<p>Psychology-5
USH-5
Stats-4
Calculus-3, sub 4
Phys-3</p>
<p>Stats:
*President of NHS, Student council, and graduating class
*Taught a young boy how to read
*A lot of volunteer hours and work with children</p>
<p>Background:</p>
<p>She was adopted from vietnam and her essay on the experience is powerful ( i think)
and has lived with her new family for ten years. She's been to over 100 national parks to explore and study the earth, geology, and biology with scientists...so she picked earth science as one of her majors. </p>
<p>Hobbies:
She's refurbished a 34 ft. sailboat with her dad's help and is currently building an experimental airplane in her dad's shop. experimental airplane= kinda like the bush planes
There's a bit more...but what do you guys think?</p>
<p>I think she has a good shot of getting in, with above average GPA, and average-ish SAT, and with her stories (granted I don’t think she has URM status as an east-asian) and background, I think she’ll bring a lot more to the school than most average students that they admit, so I’d say she has about a 60-80% chance, give or take a few %.</p>
<p>hmmm i don’t think she’s URM because I’m sure there are a lot of Vietnamese
at USC…however, she was adopted from a farming village so perhaps the adcoms
will consider her background? The only thing is, she came to America when she was six,
which means that she’s been living in the states (as a citizen) for most of her life…so will the school view her story as “not so interesting?”</p>
<p>^Depends on how she writes about it. You said her main essay was about it, right? If she writes about it in an interesting way, it’ll be interesting! I don’t really think she has a lot to worry about right now. Yes, admissions at really selective schools like USC can be a crapshoot, but her chances are more than fine and she should definitely apply.</p>
<p>I don’t think it would affect her chances at all. Colleges look at each applicant in the context of his or her school. Having a counselor fill out the counselor report and detail what makes the school different/how the school functions and how your friend performed in comparison to other students would probably help, though.</p>
<p>Well, there’s a place on the application where you have to list your class rank, if you have one, and you’d put the number of people in the class there.</p>