<p>ie)
Vandy
BC
GTown
Rice
CMC
Midd
Williams</p>
<p>Hispanic edge means nothing with a 3.5 UW GPA. I'm really not seeing much here for the higher universities...</p>
<p>My brother got into Rice Visions with a 3.62 UW RD 1400 SAT. My other brother is at CMU with a full ride with a 3.4 UW and a 1270 SAT. Your claim makes no sense to me somehow.</p>
<p>That aside, i go to an extremeley competative school, just an example out NHS requires a 3.5, wheras the national requirement is a 3.0. My grades were lowered by my year in Italy, as I went to a public school without much fluency with the language.</p>
<p>Rice Visions (unless you mean Rice per se)? CMU? Never heard of these places unfortunately, and a NHS chapter requiring a 3.5 is still lax (IMO). Why did you go to Italy if you knew it would lower your grades? Unless you can coax a great essay of the experience, anyways, that's the largest benefit I see here. Your SATs and GPA needs to go way up before you can even consider Georgetown or the other high-up universities.</p>
<p>If you read my previous posts im interested in studying Romance languages, my year in Rome is basically my main focus ( i have lived everywhere: Panama, Guatamalla, Japan, Italy, and the United States) so I am going to present myself as a person who can provide a university with insight on cultures globally etcetera.
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and Rice Visions is the Rice recruiting program targeted at minorities.</p>
<p>Vandy and Middlebury are seriouslly undiversified, my SAT is going to be above 1400 im positive.</p>
<p>But seriously, can someone let me know about:
Vandy
BC
CMC
Midd</p>
<p>This is all i really want, i understand that the others are all "reaches" and that "I probably shouldn't be so optimistic".</p>
<p>Let me know about these schools</p>
<p>Bobby,quite frankly i simply cannot take you seriously. Maybe when you learn some Math (620+700=1320) you comments will have some standing. Technically speaking I am a first generation Hispanic, plus it is impossible for any institution to know how deeply rooted I am within the country.</p>
<p>Ad hominem logic is the norm these days.</p>
<p>still not anserwing my question.
Vandy
BC
CMC
Midd</p>
<p>To answer your question MDT89 (since no one else is), IMO:</p>
<p>Vanderbilt: High Match
Boston College: High Match
Claremont McKenna: Low Match
Midd: High Match (?) I'm not terribly familiar with them
Yale: Reach (it is for everyone though. To be honest, I think you might have a shot because you have shown dedication to your passions (languages)
Rice: Low Reach
Georgetown: Low Reach
UMD: Safe
Williams: Low Reach (?) Again, I'm not terribly familiar with them. </p>
<p>Bottom line, I think that Adcoms will really like you because you've shown dedication to your passions (languages). I think it is cool that you were willing to go to Italy, even though you knew it would lower your grades, so that you could get a once in a lifetime experience and improve in your italian. That is the type of dedication Adcoms like to see. Good Luck!</p>
<p>Can't you see you've lost credibility? That's why no one serious will answer. First you were a Yale legacy. Are you still a Georgetown legacy or was it watching Captain Kangaroo nthat made you one? First gen at a top suburban school, year abroad and you want URM help?</p>
<p>I explained the Yale legacy, its not direct. Georgetown is direct (Mother). School of Foreign Service chief. The only uncredible information here is your addition buddy.</p>
<p>Regardless of all that I'm still an URM. Just not an impoverished one.</p>
<p>Anybody else?</p>
<p>Also, I have been thinking about it, and when were universities ever sympathetic to poor, first generation URM? If universities were sympathetic, they wouldnt cost 35K+.</p>
<p>Correct me if I'm worng but, I feel that universities admit URMs in order to bolster their mionority numbers in order to recieve funding?</p>
<p>Sorry, you're wrong.
If a poor (first generation URM, if you wish) gets into an elite institution, they usually receive enough financial aid to be able to attend.
But yes, some private institutions without huge endowments can't afford to provide large aid to poor students. In that case, there's those public universities, you know? The ones that have a significantly smaller sticker price?</p>
<p>And no, universities don't admit URMs just to receive funding.</p>
<p>I understand FA, but does it influence their addmitance?</p>
<p>Here's how I see it:</p>
<p>Vanderbilt- probably accepted
Claremont McKenna- probably rejected
Yale- definitely rejected
Rice- probably rejected
Georgetown- definitely rejected
UMD- definitely accepted
Williams- definitely rejected
Middlebury-probably rejected
Boston College- probably accepted</p>
<p>At need-blind schools, they're supposed to make decisions independent of financial aid. Usually, this is the case, but some people are suspicious.</p>
<p>MDT89, you seem very arrogant and you think you're cool and better than everyone else, but you're not. Sorry.</p>
<p>Jonathan you're 13, get a life.</p>
<p>Just got my SATII scores 760 world, 760 Italian 700 math 1</p>
<p>Does this help?</p>
<p>Doesn't really help your reach schools. 700 Math IC (why didn't you take IIC? The curve's about a thousand times easier...) won't do much to increase your chances at Yale, for instance.</p>