last second help for a below the CC average student! (hispanic from MD)

College Search & Selection
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<p>Gender: F
Location: DC & Maryland, But Residency in Maryland priority
College Class Year: 2014, So graduating May 2010
Ethnicity: HISPANIC
High School: Public
High School Type: Up & Coming, Definitely an Urban not well ranked school
Will apply for financial aid: No, Income > $200,000
Legacy: University of Maryland- Mother
What i want to do: International relations/affairs, Spanish/arabic/another language as a minor, political science, ish, something to go my into government work (it's kind of a thing im my family and i ealllly want to do it)</p>

<p>Academics:</p>

<p>GPA - Unweighted: urrrh, school doesn't do this but about.. 3.30 ?
GPA - Weighted: 3.65
Class Rank: top 35%
Class Size: 348
Honors classes- 13
AP- 4
(Spend my 2nd semester abroad in Italy, there fore i didn't 'boost my grades"
Senior grades 1st semester- 3 A's (AP stat, AP Poli sci, Internship) </p>

<p>Scores:</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 620
SAT I Critical Reading: 540
SAT I Writing: 560
SAT I Combined: 1720
^ Taking again on Nov 7th</p>

<p>ACT: 26 (22,26,30,27) ; 27 (24,27,28,27) (October 24th one); MAY take the December one</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Psychology (4); Lang & Comp + Pol Sci + Stat & Prob (All Pending)</p>

<p>Extrassss:
*Internship-12th grade- 15 hours per week/August 1, 2009-May 31,2010 (Police Department, Learning the Enforcement & Law sides of it and doing research on old cases for them, Training help also 1 of 2 in the county selected)</p>

<p>*Language Tutor- 11th grade- 8 hours per week/12 weeks per year (While leaving in Italy, helped to tutor the Italians in english language & culture</p>

<p><em>Varsity Cheerleading Football & Basketball *want to continue in College IF i can</em> (except 12th grade football due to severely broken hand)- 9 through 12th grade- 10 hours per week/22 weeks per year (11th grade Captain)</p>

<p>*Competition Cheerleading - 9 through 12th grade- 8 hours per week/40 weeks per year (do a lot of community service with them: Were also ranked national and have won many National & State competitions)</p>

<p>*Competitive Figure Skating (hoping to continue in college)- 9 through 12th grade- 10 hours per week/20 weeks per year (Training a the local rink, and have place State & Nation wide)</p>

<p>Community Service:
*Cheerleading Coach- 12th grade- 4 hours per week/35 weeks per year (At the cheerleading gym where I cheer, I coach along side two others a team of 3 to 5 year olds) </p>

<p>*Cheerleading Camps- 9 through 12th grade- 6 hours per camp/5 camps per year Various sponsored camps we helped to run & work for younger kids, and kids coming into high school)</p>

<p>*MS Walks- 9 through 11th grade- 5 hours per walk/2 walks per year (With my cheerleading team, we helped to run them, get people signed in, pass out numbers, and hand out medals and food)</p>

<p>*Soup Kitchen- 9 through 11th grade- 3 hours per week/5 weeks per year (At the local soup kitchen, we helped to prepare and serve food)</p>

<p>*Environmental help, Earth day- 9 through 10th grade- 5 hours per week/1 week per year (on earth day, we would go out and plant trees and flowers in community parks)</p>

<p>Honors and awards:
Honor roll 9-12th grade
Academic letter 9-12th grade
Athletic achievement 9-12th grade
State Scholar 9-12th grade
Graduating with Honors</p>

<p>SCHOOLS I HAVE CONSIDERED BEFORE/MAY CONSIDER (most reaches):
Alabama- Already admitted
Maryland (mother went there),
Pitt,
USC,
Towson,
Northeastern,
Wisconsin,
Michigan,
GA Tech,
Florida State,
Minnesota,
Colorado-Boulder,
Penn State,
Tennessee (Aunts-3 went there),
Syracuse,
Bucknell,
Oklahoma- Already admitted</p>

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<p>where is good for me to apply do you think? My ACT/SAT scores AND gpa are bad.</p>

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<p>HELPPPP? haha</p>

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<p>eeep? help maybe? this is my last chance</p>

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<p>Have you considered American?</p>

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<p>Yes, and I don’t like it. I want a big school with at least 10,000 people, and a football team haha and i’ve visited and the campus only being 36 acres REALLY bugs me</p>

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<p>Bumpaaaage yo</p>

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<p>Your list sounds pretty good to me. Georgia Tech doesn’t seem to fit though. Maryland would be good. If you don’t make the cut for fall admission, they might offer you January admission, so start thinking about whether you would like that or not. You are in good shape with two acceptances already.</p>

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<p>haha I applied to maryland for the program that IF i by chance fail out of another school they MUST take my credits if i transfer, i definitely do NOT want to go to maryland though. </p>

<p>why doesnt GA tech fit? to reachy?</p>

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<p>I like your list. Michigan and Bucknell seem reachy. Indiana and Kansas would not be</p>

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<p>haha Im actually not applying to bucknell anymore and my list looks a little different, I wasnt sure kansas would be good for a government job haha any other schools you think?
i added florida state and ohio state though</p>

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<p>University of Arizona
University of Alabama</p>

<p>both are big and have big football What about Virginia Tech?</p>

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<p>I never consdiered arizona, haha maybe ill look at that
my mom will NOT let me go to VT, nor would i want to haha</p>

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<p>I think, USC, Michigan and maybe Wisconsin are reaches. Georgia Tech and maybe Pitt are also on the high match/low reach end of things, though your URM status could be a boost. The rest seem fine, though Northeastern doesn’t have much of a football program especially when compared to most of the rest of your list. haha.</p>

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<p>hahah i forgot to edit the list, which i guess i should have lol im not applying to USC nor am i applying to Northeastern lol; I was hoping the fact that maybe im a little bit different would stand out, im not sure though urgh i loved Wisconsin it has a wonderful language program haha =)</p>

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<p>Bumpaaage; I’ve deleted Northeastern, Towson, USC, and Tenn possibly adding some others… but what do you think?</p>

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<p>Haaaa, So impatient? yelp</p>

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<p>Georgia Tech did not seem to fit because it is known as an engineering school. You are interested in international relations, languages, and possible government work. The atmosphere is different at the technical schools. It sounds to me as if you need to be around people who are interested in a wide range of subjects- languages, cultures, social sciences, politics, languages, literatures, etc. A general university with a broad range of programs just sounds like a much better fit.</p>

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<p>I guess i see what your saying but, georgia tech is ranked in the top 40 for amount of students in IR, while thats not high. . . I dunno, ir eally liked the school</p>

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<p>argerggvreag</p>