ED chances for Hispanic!

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<p>Hello everyone! I plan on applying ED and here are my stats...</p>

<p>Florida resident
Cuban</p>

<p>ACADEMICS
3.4 unweighted gpa 3.99 weighted (low because freshman year gpa, sophmore-junior year consecutive 3.66)
SAT(taken once) 670 reading 600 math 610 writing
ACT(taken twice,one just last weekend) composite-30
Top 10%
Junior year APs-AP Bio /Ap Eng language/ Ap US History
Senior year schedule- AP English Literature, AP Macro/Microeconomis, AP Psychology, AP Spanish Language, AP Enivronmental Science, AP Government and politics, AP Calculus AB</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULARS
nhs (11th-12th) Vice president(senior year) (tutoring students)
Spanish Honor Society(11th-12th) state competion team
FBLA(10th only, sponor left) President(organized county wide Relay for life)
JSA Debate team(12th) founder/ President (organizing school debates)
Academic Team(11th-12th)
Student Mentor(11th-12th)-50hrs
Florida Blood Services (10th-12th) 100hrs
Teen court volunteer(11th-12th) 100hrs
Volunteer work at local attorney office(10th-12th)Summers(100hrs)
Job at Tropicana Field(11th-12th) EVERY GAME!!! crazy 8hr days</p>

<p>AWARDS
County recognized top student mentor(one among others)11th
State runner-up Hydrogen car race(construced a small model car that runs off of water)
Honor Roll(9th(2ndsemester)-12th)
Deans List(10th-12th) During grading periods not semesters
Lifeguard Certification(9th grade)</p>

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<p>Male/Female?
College you are applying to?
Major?</p>

<p>Cuba libre!</p>

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<p>Male
I’m not sure which program and political science/ international affairs</p>

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<p>someone please reply!!</p>

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<p>you’re hispanic? consider yourself in. not trying to be anything other than honest… AA is on your side big time.</p>

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<p>That is such a gross misstatement it’s not even racist.</p>

<p>I’m from Miami where everyone is Hispanic, and I can tell you even only anecdotally, there were tons of qualified Hispanic applicants who were rejected from top schools.</p>

<p>Your senior year schedule is great. If you can pull As in all of those, enough to pull up your weighted and unweighted GPA, you will be in great shape.
Also, try studying and taking the ACT again, if you can before the ED deadline. Shoot for a 32+.</p>

<p>Other than that you look to be in great shape.</p>

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<p>Look at those EC’s. Nothing for 9th or 10th grade? Or barely. That will hurt you.</p>

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<p>It looks like he has some soph year stuff…I didn’t even bother mentioning my 9th grade ECs because I dropped them after that year.</p>

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<p>That’s also false, Will7.</p>

<p>A lot of students cannot participate in any school-sponsored ECs or sports because they don’t have the means to stay after school for practices/meetings/etc, and it isn’t until the student gets a car (11th grade for most) that they can finally participate in clubs.</p>

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<p>“That’s also false, Will7.”</p>

<p>That’s false, chendrix. Perhaps the circumstances will mitigate, but one’s being hurt by the absence of ECs is undeniable.</p>

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<p>But he still has some ECs. is it really that terrible that they only started last year?
I’m not trying to argue, I’m just curious.</p>

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<p>It seems as if it is resume padding if one begins all of his or her activities junior year.</p>

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<p>o ok. How about for example, my situation? I started out in one school club and chorus freshman year, then I started adding different things on like sports, other clubs and community service soph and junior years. I mean I know there’s nothing I can do about it now but some of the things I joined last year were for Juniors and Seniors exclusively bc it calls for us to leave school in the middle of the day @ random times. I just hope it doesn’t seem like I joined for colleges bc I honestly was not even aware of all of these fine details in admissions until like March lol.</p>

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<p>Ha, you make it sound like this person did not participate in any clubs at all.</p>

<p>Clubs in 9th and 10th grade are absolutely not necessary, and your application being hurt by not having them IS deniable.</p>

<p>Circumstances are not what define how it is viewed.</p>

<p>A person with no ECs 9th/10th and several large leadership roles in 11th/12th is leagues ahead of the dabbler from 9th-12th.</p>

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<p>aniram518, you can note in the additional info section that many of the clubs you joined were only open to juniors and seniors.</p>

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<p>“A person with no ECs 9th/10th and several large leadership roles in 11th/12th is leagues ahead of the dabbler from 9th-12th.”</p>

<p>Both of them are behind someone with leadership who began activities earlier. </p>

<p>“Clubs in 9th and 10th grade are absolutely not necessary, and your application being hurt by not having them IS deniable.”</p>

<p>I did not claim them to be necessary. I have heard over a dozen admissions officers respond directly to situations such as this in almost the exact same way: circumstances will be considered, but an applicant dedicated for a longer amount of time is favorable. I don’t see how one can responsibly deny what the admissions officers say.</p>

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<p>first off thank you for all of the replies!
second- i transfered schools from freshman year to sophmore year due to parents divorce etc. This is the main reason i was not necessarily involved in clubs my sophmore year. However, i did join FBLA sophmore year and had to wait for spanish honor society until the next year because i was a new student. But for those who replied saying my involvement was next to none 9th-10th, what about sports,work, and volunteering? I appologize for leaving out my athletic involvement… Soccer 9-12th captain this year Baseball-9th-10th Tennis 11th- 12th. So overall extracurricular involvement is not exclusive to clubs, right?</p>