<p>Hello everyone! I plan on applying ED and here are my stats...</p>
<p>Florida resident
Cuban Male</p>
<p>ACADEMICS
3.4 unweighted gpa 3.99 weighted (low because freshman year avg gpa 2.9, 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(10th-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(9th-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>
<p>Sports
Soccer(9th-12th) Captain Senior Year
Baseball(9th-10th)
Tennis(11th-12th)</p>
<p>also if anyone could please help me out with what schools truly consider racial status in the college admissions process.</p>
<p>Your strength of schedule is very good - lots of AP’s… Your class rank/grades are okay. Your scores are (to me) the weakest part of the academic side of your stats.</p>
<p>Your EC’s seem to me to be pretty good - the hydrogen car race seems pretty unique. I think they’ll like that.</p>
<p>I’m not sure I’d list Lifeguard Certification as an award - just whatever job or volunteering you did that used your certification.</p>
<p>I’m not sure what you mean by “truly consider racial status.” I don’t think being an URM is going to give you that much of an edge anywhere. Secondly, and this is a side issue, “Hispanic” is not a race. It’s a term coined by the 1970 US Census to lump together people of several distinct Spanish-speaking cultures/origin that represented a growing minority of the population. The US OMB currently defines hispanic as:
<p>thank you for the reply…
yes i know it is a descent not race, but AA, from what i have heard, takes a role in admissions at certain schools…right?</p>
<p>captain of varsity soccer in a soccer crazy state
30 ACT
holds a J O B for money…and for love it seems at Tropicana Field</p>
<p>I say, take your ACT again in October…not sure the next date meets the Vandy ED deadline–check on that…but if it does…take it again then…study study your weak section and try to ace your strong sections…remember they judge ACT on best Sitting…they do not superscore. </p>
<p>If you want to go to a reach school, ramp it up on the ACT is my best advice. You might surprise yourself and the payoff is rather big if you do. Get that red book and start doing your worst section over and over. There are kids at Vandy with your current ACTs. But if you want to show them something that your GPA won’t show them…work on the ACT more. Since it is too late to up your GPA…work on the thing you have some control over now. Also, adcoms can be forgiving of immature high school freshman if you give them two sentences on when you woke up re study habits…not uncommon at all for one year to be lower.</p>
<p>If Vandy is your top choice, apply ED and write great essays…dig deep on those. </p>
<p>GOOD LUCK!! </p>
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