<p>hey guys ill keep it nice and short for you guys and ill only include the highlights of my app since you've probably read about a dozen today!</p>
<p>thanks so muchh!!! you're going to heaven.</p>
<p>MY STATS:</p>
<p>3.64 UW/4.6 W (i've had lot's of b's in easy classes but lot's of a's in very hard classes- i know, very weird)
Top 7% out of 900 kids at very well known public school
SAT- 2290
SAT II- US History- 770, German- 800
AP Scholar with Distinction (will have taken 9 AP tests)
Distinguished Achievement Scholar at my school
National Honors Society
National English Honors Society
3 years Varsity Golf (Regional Semifinalist 2x/District Champ/Nationally ranked/top 2 on team junior and senior year)
President of Spanish Club (chief website designer) (4 years in club)
Vice President of World Affairs Council (3 years in club)
Interact Director (2 years in club)
280+ community service hours
Law internship at a top 50 law firm in US (i can get great recs from here)
Volunteered for 3 weeks in Kenya at school through a project that i co-founded at my school to raise money and awareness. raised $4000.
Fluently speak 4 languages
Half hispanic
Will be considered an international student (that's why im not up for scholarships such as national merit)</p>
<p>My interest is in international law and diplomacy. Any chance at these schools? Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown SFS, Amherst, George Washington, American, UVA, Columbia!!! (might apply ED), Rice, Oxford, London School of Economics, St. Andrew's (UK), McGill, U British Columbia, Middlebury. I have safeties so dont you worry!!!!</p>
<p>im from argentina!!! see but here's the thing...some people have been telling me that im hispanic and others have told me that people from like brazil and argentina are not considered hispanic.</p>
<p>i was born with "white skin" (wow, that sounds really racist but i hope no one takes it bad) but im really tan!!! :D</p>
<p>I'm a white skinned Cuban, and i'm pretty sure being from Argentina is being hispanic... anyways I'm pretty sure that being international from Argentina would be a plus.
I would say that you have a good chance at these schools, just from looking at other posts on CC. I'd say it would be harder for you to get into Columbia than say, American.</p>
<p>You have good shots to all the US ones except Columbia (no one has a good shot there, I'm afraid and Georgetown (huge competition for this same type of major there). On the UK universities, I'm afraid I do not really know how it works for you to go there, but in my case, I do the IBs and they would put me there if I want through the UCAS application. You have to apply through the UCAS but you probably have to have great AP scores and they probably won't know or care much about the SATs</p>
<p>Argentinians are considered Hispanic regardless of race; Hispanic is an ethnic construction not a racial one. You can be black, indigenous, white and still be Hispanic. Brazilians are not considered Hispanic because the main criterion for being Hispanic is living in a Spanish-colonized/speaking country.</p>
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<p>Columbia and Oxford are near-impossible, and Tufts, Gtown, JHU, and Amherst are reaches. Applying ED to any of those would greatly improve your chances. LSE is also a reach. Middlebury is a high match. GWU is a match. Don't know about St. Andrew's, UVA, UBC, and McGill.</p>
<p>I'd say Tufts, Gtown, and JHU are matches, with GWU as a low match. You're definately qualified. Generally Argentines are considered Hispanic, but internationals are often considered separately.</p>
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<p>I am pretty sure Hispanic means 'Latinos', in which case Brazilians would be also considered Hispanic even though we speak Portuguese.</p>
<p>As both an Argentinian and Brazilian, and having studied the origins of the word "Hispanic" -- a construction by the U.S. government for use in the U.S. Census -- I can guarantee you that "Hispanic" refers to Spanish-speaking Latin Americans only.</p>
<p>looks good, columbia uva and georgetown are reaches, Oxford is a slightly larger reach, saint andrews is a match, tufts a medium reach, the others look pretty good. Middlebury seems like a really really odd choice, since you seem to be into govt/polisci/public policy type stuff.</p>
<p>oh ive got a little question. a bunch of people were telling me that schools like tufts, jhu, uva and amherst were reaches for me. now i could understand that for say schools like columbia and oxford and georgetown SFS, but id say that my overall resume (apart from my GPA of course) is probably the best in my grade and i dont mean that in a conceited, arrogant, or offensive way at all. my question is: does the GPA really matter THAT much? because the people who have 4.0's at my school are anti-social freaks who dont do anything besides study. no clubs, no sports, no leadership, no initiative, no nothing.</p>
<p>what does a person have to get to be a match for schools like jhu and tufts???</p>
<p>First of all, thanks for all the feedback again! i really appreciate it. anyway, i forgot to add a couple more schools to the list? mind chancing me on these? </p>
<ul>
<li>U Chicago (a personal favorite, dont know why it wasnt on my 1st list)</li>
<li>Boston College</li>
<li>Boston U</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Claremont McKenna</li>
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<p>can anyone do the whole rejected/accepted list thingy for the schools? thanx!</p>