Mexican-American Female from Texas

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>chances please?</p>

<p>i'm applying to Texas A&M (which I already have automatic admission to since TX law requires it), New York University, Northwestern, U Chicago, Cornell, Columbia, and Fordham.</p>

<p>Mexican-American Female
Large Public High School
Suburban Houston Area, but born in El Paso and my mom was born in Mexico</p>

<p>Stats:
3.6 Unweighted GPA (had really bad Precalculus grades my sophomore year but I've had a good upward trend in grades since then)
SAT: Took it yesterday and I think I got at least 650 Math, 700 Writing, and 700 Critical Reading but i really don't know.
SAT IIs: will take in december.
Rank: Top 5%</p>

<p>HS Courseload:
APs: US History, Statistics, and English Lit/Comp last year, and taking Government, Macroeconomics, Chemistry, and Calculus AB this year
Honors: all other academic subjects
Everything else: Veterinary Medicine/Animal Science classes, and stuff I had to get out of the way, like speech, pe, etc.
*Also, I was supposed to take Physics Honors this year but they couldn't fit it into my schedule so they put me in ART I and theres nothing I can do about it. bleh.</p>

<p>ECs:
Marching and Concert Band for all 4 years, and the first 3 years I moved from the lowest band to the top band
National Honor Society
SHINE Catholic Work Camp in the summers btwn my freshman/soph years and soph/junior years (it lasted a week and we fixed people's houses up, went to homeless shelters, etc.)
Cross Country my freshman year, which I had to quit because of band (6:00 am cc and 3-5:30 pm band do not mix) BUT i was immediately put on varsity and I plan to do it in college.
Track my sophomore year, only JV though. idk whether to put on app or not, but i really did miss running...
Volunteer work with church and also at stables for disabled/risk at youth</p>

<p>no leadership. yeah, it sucks... i was scared.</p>

<p>Work experience:
Chick-Fil-A from December 2006 to September 2007
Best Friends Pet Resort/Salon from September to now
and I'm getting an internship at a veterinary office sometime this semester. I plan to get certified as a Level I vet assistant by the end of the year.</p>

<p>Awards:
National Hispanic Scholar Finalist
National Merit Commended Student
Spring ISD Point of Pride</p>

<p>Essays: will be exceptional</p>

<p>Recs: good i guess</p>

<p>Major: I really have no idea... I have so many interests that idk. but i do want to be either a dermatologist or veterinarian (i have psoriasis and thats what got me interested in derm)</p>

<p>Thanks to anyone who cares... you're awesome.</p>

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<p>i'd really appreciate feedback...</p>

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<p>it's hard to say without knowing your sat scores, honestly. but like you said, you're in a&m. i think nyu and fordham are good, columbia and cornell are reach, and i have no clue about northwestern.</p>

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<p>yeah i know columbia is definitely WAYYYYYYYY up there for me, but im applying for the heck of it...</p>

<p>well my march 1 SAT scores were 590 math, 690 Cr, and 650 writing but i had not prepared at all for it (i stayed up late the night before, i didn't even know the essay was the first part, i skipped lots of questions without even trying to do them on math) and i got a 5 on the essay cuz i wrote like half a page lol. but yesterdays SAT was better I think...</p>