Gender: Female
Race: American Indian & African American
Residence: Oklahoma
GPA: 3.7(UW), 4.1(W) out of 4.0
Class Rank: n/a,but top 10%
ACT: 30
APs:
AP Bio and AP Gov & Politics(9th grade)
AP Physics A and AP World(10)
AP Lang, AP Psych, AP Calc AB, AP Environmental, AP Seminar(11)
ECs:
Princess of my tribe
Mock Trial (Captain)
President of my school’s Pre-Med Society
I am currently doing research with NIH
Activist
National Honor Society/Spanish Honor Society/Mu Alpha Theta/Oklahoma Indian Honor Society/American Indian Science and Engineering Society
co-founder and vice-president of Black Student Union (We recently held a peaceful protest).
in the Ron Brown Guided Pathway Support Program.
WeRNative Ambassador.
Native American Club (vice pres)
I do volunteer work at a local hospital and I help plan all of my school’s blood drives.
Counselor-In-Training for a camp hosted for children who had or have incarcerated parent(s).
Awards:
Yale Bassett Award for Community Engagement- over 800 juniors from 46 states applied, only 20 won.
Received a key to my city
AP Capstone Diploma
Mock Trial Nationals
Income: 17k
Hooks: First-Generation, low income, Underrepresented minority interested in medicine/STEM, american indian, african american, incarcerated parent, I have extenuating circumstances to explain my sophomore year grade dip.
Major: Medicine related major or African American Studies or Native American Studies with a Pre-med track
MY COLLEGE LIST:
Safety:
University of Oklahoma
Matches:
Mount Holyoke College
Dickinson College
Bryn Mawr College
Reaches:
Smith College
Wake Forest
Colgate University
Lafayette College
Northeastern University
Wellesley College
UNC-Chapel Hill
Emory University
High-Reaches/Dream:
Dartmouth College ---------- I am applying ED to Dartmouth.
Yale University
Stanford University
It looks to me like a well-balanced list, as long as your safety is affordable.
Have you run the online net price calculators for UOklahoma and others on your list?
But what about applying ED? I don’t think that is a good idea with family income being $17k and you wanting to be pre-med. You need to be able to compare offers, and many merit deadlines are before ED results come out.
@tk21769
I ran the net price calculator on all of the colleges on my list. OU is affordable, plus I get Oklahoma Promise and a couple other scholarships.
@mommdc Dartmouth, Stanford, Duke, and the other Ivies give free tuition and free room and board to students whose parents make under 65K. I asked a current low-income student, and he verified it, plus he said Dartmouth even paid for a surgery that he needed.
OP, this ^^ is not true. I did a quick run of the Duke NPC with $64K income, no assets, do not own home, and the Expected Family Contribution was $13K. You need to get on each school’s website and run the calculators with real numbers to see what you get.
And I can’t imagine that Dartmouth would pay for a student’s surgery, unless they were somehow responsible for an injury that necessitated the surgery.
I think you will do extremely well in admissions. Just make sure you apply to the most generous schools. Since you have a safety you can reach high. However, you might want to find one more safety just for the heck of it. Don’t want to get your hopes up, but I think you’re going to be an Ivy Leaguer:)
@suzy100 Okay, I never ran Duke’s NPC because they didn’t give my friend enough fin aid, but I 100% sure about Stanford and Dartmouth, especially with my income.
You’re correct about Dartmouth and financial aid. Contact admissions if you haven’t already, make yourself known, express interest in native American studies and premed…
Your list is good. You may want to add Macalester, Colby, and Middlebury.
Look at fly-ins (those fly students to their campus. Often you have a reading to do and a class to attend where they check out your ability to discuss the reading, then you visit, meet people, etc.) It makes choosing colleges easier and increases your odds of admission.
(I often see ‘Native American’ so I’m not sure how clear ‘American Indian’ is to New England colleges.)
@aspiringgirl
Look into Quest bridge. The Native American boost is substantial however it would need to be verified with a tribe. I don’t think ED is the best option for you as you are very low income and pre-med. Infact if you are 100 percent certain of medicine and are not prestige hunting I would only apply to these top schools so when I was accepted I could negotiate full rides and fullride+ ( get payed to go to school) with lower ranked institutions. Also you can’t apply ED or SCEA to more than one school so you need to pick either Harvard, Yale, Stanford, or Dartmouth.
Safety:
University of Oklahoma
Low Matches- High Matches:
Mount Holyoke College
Dickinson College
Bryn Mawr College
Wake Forest
Colgate University
Northeastern
Smith college
Low Reach/Reaches:
Lafayette College
Wellesley College
UNC-Chapel Hill
Emory University
Dartmouth
High-Reaches/Dream:
Yale University
Stanford University
@VANDEMORY1342
Thank you! I do have a tribe and a CDIB card. I just don’t post my tribe on sites like this because I was just crowned the princess of my tribe, and it would easily give away my identity.
I know, what I meant was to be sure the people you write to are aware of it, perhaps by adding tribal affiliation in parenthesis.