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<li>have an 1840 SAT (hoping to get it to at least 2000)</li>
<li>play 3 sports, 2 are varsity, and I am a team captain for one of them</li>
<li>chosen to present a project of mine in front of the Board of Education</li>
<li>provide free school and SAT tutoring to those who need it in my school</li>
<li>involved in a club</li>
<li>3.8 GPA unweighted</li>
<li>Volunteer in a soup kitchen every week</li>
<li>single parent home</li>
<li>low income</li>
<li>first generation college student</li>
<li>top 10% in my class</li>
<li>pretty high performing school in NJ (in top 1000 of all high schools in country)</li>
<li>and I’m black (just throwing that in there)
what are my chances of getting into AU?</li>
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<p>Your chances were probably extremely good to begin with but with your demographics (fewer than 2% of the full-time undergrads are African American men), I think you’re a sure admit–as long as you do not fail to show them the love.</p>
<p>Be sure to let them know in various ways that you truly want to go there (assuming you do). Visit if you can.</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement</p>
<p>You don’t need chances from a bunch of anonymous, poorly informed strangers when AU actually PUBLISHES your chances, at every level of SAT/ACT and GPA. Go to the page from their Office of Institutional Advancement and find the data book.</p>
<p>“Go to the page from their Office of Institutional Advancement and find the data book.”</p>
<p>Where is this said “Office of Institutional Advancement”…? I googled it, searched it, and did CtrlF on the AU site and nothing showed up.</p>
<p>[Academic</a> Data Reference Book | OIRA | American University](<a href=“http://www.american.edu/provost/oira/Academic-Data-Reference-Book.cfm]Academic”>Academic Data Reference Book | OIRA | American University | American University, Washington, DC)</p>