My mom is an immigrant as well as my dad’s parents. Would this help me at all? If at all possible can you let me know how many extra SAT points or tenths of a gpa this would be equal to just so I have a sense of how it can be compared. Thanks!
Yes. It roughly equates to a 270 point bonus over asian students, or 150 over white students in admissions. I’m not sure about GPA, since that’s harder to standardize, but that’s about the weighting you get on test scores.
Being Hispanic helps more at some schools than with others. It certainly is not enough, as grades and class rank also matter quite a biit - again, depending on which schools you are considering.
It won’t help you at all at the CA public unis. But it would help a lot more for schools actively trying to be more diverse.
What are your grades/scores/rank? What schools are you looking at?
It does depend more on the rest of the package. If you don’t have the grades and test scores to start with, it isn’t going to be that helpful. It also depends on the colleges you hope to apply to. Your question doesn’t have a standard answer.
I’m a freshman so I don’t know a lot of my stats yet but my gpa first term was like a 3.5 only unweighted and right now I have a 3.7 something but I don’t know how long that will last lol there’s still a while left in the new term. I know obviously I need to bring up my grades as much as possible but the first month or two were really an adjustment. since I’m taking honors classes, etc. so high school started off a little rough but now I think I’ve “found my rhythm” haha. My dream school is NYU and also I have a ton of good EC’s and the average sat score at my school is around 1800 for the (old?) sat and I’m hoping to get higher than that since I take honors classes so I should be above average at least a little. Do you think this gives me a decent shot at schools like NYU, Fordham, American University, etc.?
If you haven’t taken any test and are still a freshman, then it’s impossible to say what schools you do and don’t have a shot at. I mean you don’t even really have a psat score yet. At this point you should be focusing in what YOU can do for your future admissions. Not what your race can do.
It depends on the school, @“day man”, but yes, it helps most places, and quite significantly at some.
@3puppies My dream school is NYU and I got a 3.5 first term and currently have a 3.7 unweighted gpa with three honors classes. I also have a ton of really good EC’s I think but obviously grades are the by most important thing, followed by test scores. I haven’t taken the sat yet but for my states standardized testing I’ve gotten high advanced on all subjects and a perfect score for English on the most recent one. My school averages at around an 1800 for the sat, but I’m hoping to get better than that since I’m in honors classes and I’ve taken some practice tests which I got like a 2100 ish I think but idk how reliable that is lol