<p>gpa weighted, about 3.7
unweighted, about 3.4
my gpa is not too great cuz i transferred schools. NJ school is much harder than NC.
class rank 73/447</p>
<p>wrote 2 pretty decent essays, ask me if u want to read them</p>
<p>I'm Asian-Chinese (affirmative action?)
We took these 2 standardized test for admission eligibilty. The requirement was a 92 percentile. I got a 98 and 99 percentile. </p>
<p>The thing is, in my county only 18 academic and 32 performing arts students are allowed to attend. Will I be one of the 18?
Last year, only 2 kids from my school were selected and they were all performing arts nominees.
There's this girl who also got nominated for mathematics. Her gpa and class rank is a lot higher than mine because she stayed in this same easy school all throughout high school. Although i THINK i may have her on the tests and class rank. I am probably the ONLY guy who has been nominated and applied in my school. About 10 girls have been nominated.
I already applied, the letter of acceptance will arrive in the ides of March.</p>
<p>Although affirmative action (setting spots for certain groups) is illegal, the Supreme Court has rulled before that race can be looked at in determining acceptance.</p>
<p>However, 'affirmative action," in the way that I defined it, only applies to underrepresented minorities. If you look at the breakdowns, Asians are by far the most overrepresented group in secondary learning institutions when compared to the percent of the US population that they make up. Thus, being born outside of the country and being a minority might give you a good story and a slight edge, but its fairly insignificant. The program only applies to underrepresented groups such as Blacks, Latinos, etc... Groups like Jews, Asians, etc... may be minorities, but they are not underrepresented and thus do not get any "points" or what not when applying to college.</p>
<p>Are you telling me what affirmative action is? </p>
<p>Affirmative Action is actually is a derogatory term used to describe government spending that is intended to enrich constituents of a politician in return for their political support, either in the form of campaign contributions or votes. Typically it involves funding for government programs whose economic or service benefits are concentrated but whose costs are spread among all taxpayers</p>
<p>"Putting "Chinese-Asian" is better than putting white or putting nothing, right?"</p>
<p>Ha, that's funny for a lot of reasons (to me), most of them wrong. You either put your race or choose not to answer; I doubt AA will play a big role in some governor's school.</p>