<p>How [insert explative here] am I and what is in Reach?</p>
<p>Objective:
Unweighted: 3.3
Weighted: 3.6
UC GPA: 3.9
Class Rank: top 25% (rough estimate)
ACT: 30 comp, Writing 11
SAT II: taken in november
AP: 3 Eng Lang and Chem, 4 APUSH and Euro</p>
<p>Guitar (4 years)
Piano (2 years)
Internship with financial company (2 years, paid)
Tutor Middle School Child (100 hrs)
Yearbook Editor (this year)
Student Government (leadership position)</p>
<p>Recommendations from AP chem and APUSH/Euro Teacher
Rec. From Program coordinator (magnet school)</p>
<p>Public School
First Generation college student
Hispanic Male
California</p>
<p>Starting to think I shouldn't have slacked off so much, but too late for that.</p>
<p>I had eerily similar stats and am also first gen/Hispanic. I thought I was screwed too, but I (surprisingly) got into a couple pretty high reaches. </p>
<p>I don’t know what you’re looking for in a school, but I didn’t bother applying to any Ivies/Standford/Duke/Chicago. Schools one step below those are definitely possible though. Like Emory, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Tufts, NYU, Michigan, etc. The key, for me anyway, was just to apply to as many schools as possible.</p>
<p>Reach would be something like the good UC schools I guess.
Not really impressive academically but I think you get an advantage because you’re Hispanic</p>
<p>I’ve always gone to small, tightly knit schools (my high school has around 300 kids) my prefrence right are Liberal Arts Colleges. Right now my List is Oberlin College, Lewis & Clark, Reed and Tulane. I’m still in the process of adding other colleges i’d think I like</p>
<p>Also consider Willamette, Whitman, Pitzer, CMC, Macalester, Colgate.</p>