<p>Decision: ACCEPTED/Notre Dame Scholar!</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT: n/a
SAT IIs: Us History - 760 ; Math IC 730
ACT: 35
GPA: 3.9 UW, 5.22 (5.0 scale) weighted (3 APs and numerous honors classes through junior year, four more APs and an honors this year)
Rank: 6th out of 250 in a class
Other stats: National Merit Commended Scholar, National Hispanic Scholar, AP Scholar, 5 AP US History & AP World History, President of NHS and Interact Club, Editor-in-Chief of school newspaper, President of City of Portland Youth Commission</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: This is what got me the Notre Dame Scholar IMHO. I have a good hook, but it is sort of risky because it has to do with an illness that caused me to miss a lot of school in my sophomore year.
Teacher Recs: could be better
Counselor Rec: didn't read it
Hook (if any): missed almost 100 days of school my sophomore year because I was literally "allergic to the school", worked as an executive assistant in the office of the CEO of a major floor covering wholesaler/distributorship, URM
Location/Person: the Corpus Christi Metropolitan area in Texas
State or Country: Texas
School Type: public
Ethnicity: Hispanic
Gender: male
major strength/weakness: well rounded, high test scores, good leadership on my app...weaknesses: despite the high ACT, I'm not the top student in my class
going to attend? waiting for some other colleges, but Notre Dame is one of my very top choices</p>
<p>To everyone else who got in, Congratulations and GO IRISH!!! To those who were deferred, good luck to you. To those who were denied, my condolences. I have the utmost confidence that y'all will be quite happy at whatever institution you choose to attend.</p>
<p>Thanks to all for the prayers. They really paid off!</p>