I Know Penn is a Long shot. Chance me Anyway.

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<p>State: Illinois
Sex: M
School Type: Public, Morgan Park High School (We were ranked number 493 out of over 20,000 schools)
Ethnicity: African/Native American Descent</p>

<p>Reaches/Top choices
Northwestern
Cornell
Brown
Dartmouth
UPenn</p>

<p>Top Choices/Matches
University of Michigan
University of Pittsburgh
University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign)</p>

<p>Safties
Howard University
Loyola University
Northern Illinois University
Southern Illinois University</p>

<p>Major: A Double Major of Poltical Science and History. I hope to become an environmental/human & animal rights attorney. </p>

<p><b>Academics</b>
W. GPA of 4.5
UW GPA of 3.5
ACT: 29
SAT w/o writing: 1200/1600
AP Test Environmental Science: 3/5</p>

<p>Junior Year Schedule
IB English I
IB Spanish IV
IB European History
IB Maths Studies
IB Biology I
Theory of Knowledge I
IB Psychology I</p>

<p><b>Senior Year Schedule</b>
IB English II
IB Spanish V
IB European History/Twentieth Century Topics II
IB Psychology II
IB Biology II/Biochemistry
Theory of Knowledge II
Art I
PreCalculus (taken over the summer for an extra credit...This followed IB Maths Studies)</p>

<p>ExtraCurricular
Cross Country, Debate, Drama, Mock Trial</p>

<p><b>Volunteer Work</b>
Worked at the Beverly Arts Center in Beverly Hills, Chicago as a summer intern. I was not paid but helped out alot!!! Worked at homeless shelter, joined an Environmental clean up group, spearheaded the making and promotions of many environmental events such as Earth Hour. </p>

<p><b>Other Accomplishments</b>
You can tell by my senior schedule that I am an IB Diploma student. I am also a People to People Student Ambassador, and I completed IB Middle Years with the Highest Honor and had my Personal Project evaluated in China. </p>

<p>I also will have a letter of recommendation from two Northwestern alumni</p>

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<p>Your stats aren’t remarkable to me (and your test scores are a bit low) but your uber-URM status (african AND native-american zomg!) make me feel like they’d all want to take you.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t recommend going with your recommendations unless they know you very well…people often think that alumni recs are good JUST because they are alumni. Also, why would you think NU recommendations would help you get into UPenn.</p>

<p>Also, I’m assuming you being native american is something like you learning you were 1/16th and heard about it round the dinner table?</p>

<p>Your UW GPA is ok, not really in the average among your reaches. And your SAT and ACT are a bit low too. Also, you don’t have calculus into your schedule which is a bit of a turn off for top colleges.</p>

<p>Extra curricular are ok.</p>

<p>I’d say it comes down to you being a URM…but admissions come but once in a lifetime, shoot for the stars.</p>

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<p>I would go for the best and apply early. We have the same scores and I have a little better GPA, but I might go to UPenn to run. The coach said my admission was 50/50 so you should try, but don’t expect to be accepted.</p>

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<p>Not as LOW as 1/16 Native American, 1/8. My Grandmother is Half Choctaw. And my great grandmother (on my father’s side) is half Cherokee. I really can’t give you perfect math (I got a C!) But that’s more than 1/16 to me.</p>

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<p>Let me be frank: Your test scores tell us that you’d have a difficult time (at best) keeping up with the workload at any of your lofty reach schools. Likewise, your GPA is very mediocre and will hurt you come application time. Your soft factors (ECs, URM status) obviously work to your advantage, but I doubt very much that they will mitigate the rest of your record.</p>