<p>elp!!! My parents/teachers are pressuring me to start looking at schools to apply next fall, I need help form people that have gone through the process and can give me a realistic opinion on where to apply. Princeton has been always a top consideratio but im not sure if i should even apply? I want to major in international relations and minor in business. What other schools are in my reach?</p>
<p>Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Mexican
Weighted GPA: 3.7
Frosh Year 3.0
Sophomore 3.9
Junior 4.1
Class Size: 1300
Class Rank: N/A
Spanish SAT II: 760
US History SAT II: 750 (projected in practice)
Lit SAT II: 680 (projected in practice)
SAT: 1900/2400 *will re-take in June</p>
<p>AP Courses
English Lit
English Lang (3/4 projected practice)
Spanish Lan (5)
Spanish Lit (4)
US History (4/5 projected practice)
Euro
Econ
Stats
Psychology</p>
<p>Community College Classes</p>
<p>Poli-Sci 103 (94%)</p>
<p>EC</p>
<p>2 years Internships
Community Resource Center
Democratic Party
(100+ hours both)</p>
<p>4 years School Leadership program
Frosh Class Treasurer
Senior Class Treasurer
ASB Comm. of Assemblies/Homecoming
300+ Community service at school</p>
<p>3 years Varsity Lacrosse
1 year JV</p>
<p><em>Also, I think that the fact that I attend a all white school has some weight at the admissions departments.</em></p>
<p>Your extracurriculars are good, so are your grades, but your test scores may hurt you, even if you're a URM...</p>
<p>Have you considered Tufts? they have a really strong IR program. Princeton doesn't have a specific IR major, although you can major in politics or the woodrow wilson school...</p>
<p>Go for it. Even if you think you have a glaring weakness, it's TOTALLY possible. My glaring weakness was a 660 on my Math II SAT (after THREE TRIES) as well as a seemingly weak course load. I'm not a URM or legacy, and I still got in without spectacular essays to make up for anything (last minute application!). Work on getting a 2100+ SAT score.</p>
<p>peachykween did you have anything REALLY good. im in a similar situation where nothign really stands out and i ahve a few minor weaknesses, wondering if i should apply to my dream school, pton</p>
<p>im no expert, but i know a bit about IR programs.
Reachs:
Princeton
Georgetown SFS
Columbia
Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>Matches:
American University
George Washignton University</p>
<p>Ditto what others have said: grades good and showing a trend of improvement, which is nice, but those test scores will bite you if you don't watch out. Raise your SATs a serious amount--as much as possible, in fact. Come up with a passion about which you can write a convincing essay. Ideally you would emphasize your cultural heritage alongside some extracurricular activity about which you are passionate. Then apply ED (it makes a huge difference), and keep your fingers crossed.</p>
<p>I was accepted as a URM, and I did not have the best of test scores, but I had a lot of extracurriclar achievements. I know of several URM's with close to perfect test scores that ended up getting denied. It all depends on what you can bring to the school I guess.</p>