Please help...chances!

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<p>Hispanic female from greater Los Angeles area
Low income, Single- parent household
First generation to go to college
Political Science major
Small, parochial, all-girls, semi- competitive school

  • Toughest course load possible</p>

<p>GPA
Weighted 4.28
Unweighted 3.74</p>

<p>SAT- retaking in Oct.
TOTAL 2030
CR 720
WR 680
M 630</p>

<p>SAT II
Lit 730
US 730
Spanish- retaking in Nov.</p>

<p>AP
Euro 3
US 4
Eng Lang 3
***taking this year: bio, eng lit, us gov, spanish lang; possibly self- studying world, art history, and macro</p>

<p>RANK: School doesn’t rank, but in the top 12%</p>

<p>ECs
<em>POLITICS ORIENTED</em>
Speech and Debate (10-12) treasurer, vp
-NFL National Qualifier 2006
Young Politicians of America (11-12) co-founder, secretary, vp</p>

<p>Created my own political conference thing (11) co-founder/ organizer [conference designed by a friend and myself to bring local high
school students in contact w/ state officials and reps; included several student speakers and an open panel discussion b/t
students and officials/ reps]
Harvard Model Congress (11-12), house of reps and national security council
School Magazine (11-12) co- founder, editor, writer (non- partisan political pieces)
<em>ACADEMIC</em>
NHS (10-12) record keeper & treasurer, pres
<em>MUSIC</em>
Cello (11 years)
-Pasadena Philharmonic Youth Orchestra (7-12)
<em>SERVICE</em>
Campus Ministry (9-12) liturgy coordinator, lector, eucharistic minister, freshman retreat leader (11, 12), sophomore retreat leader (10),
junior retreat leader (11), KAIROS retreat leader (12), junior high retreat leader (10, 11), freshman orientation leader (11, 12) </p>

<p>CONFERENCES
-------had to apply and be selected to attend-------
The National Young Leaders State Conference (2004)
HOBY (2005)
JSA California Summer Symposium (2004)
Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project (CLYLP) Conference (2006) </p>

<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE
-Church Youth Group (9-12) youth minister—leading and preparing weekly teen discussion group (2000+ hours)
-Brothers of the Missionaries of Charity (8-12)— feeding the homeless of Los Angeles (500+ hours)
-Organized two “30 Hour Famines”— raise youth awareness about world huger and generate donations for an international charity based in Peru working toward eliminating hunger in 3rd world countries (1st “famine” $4300; 2nd “famine” $5700) (10, 11) (550 hours each time)
-Organized a Darfur Awareness campaign w/ my YPA club—writing letters, selling pins, guest speaker, etc. (raised about $2000) (11) (400 hours)</p>

<p>INTERNSHIPS
Congressman (sum 05)
Senator (sum 06)
Local law firm (sum-winter 06)
City Mayor (sum- fall 06)</p>

<p>AWARDS
Various Debate Awards (10- 11)
Various Music Awards (I’ll only include 9-12)
Rotary International Speech Comp (11)- 1st place
Los Angeles Times Plan-it Earth Essay Competition (9) 2nd place
Black History Month Essay Contest (8-11) one of six to seven winners all 4 years (parent’s union sponsors it for children of members)
$1000 Scholarship Winner (9-11) one of five winners 3 years in row (parent’s union sponsors it for children of members)
Creative Writing Contest—Poetry Division (9) 2nd place (10, 11) 1st place
Environmental Symposium Speech Competition (11)- Best Speaker Award and Best Proposal Award
Scholar Award- English (10, 11)
Scholar Award- Social Studies (9- 11)
Scholar Award- Spanish (10, 11)
Scholar Award- Theology (9-11)
NHS Exemplary Service Award (10, 11)
NHS Outstanding Committee Leader Award (10, 11)
NHS President’s Award (11)
Outstanding APUSH Student of the Year Award (11)
Outstanding AP English Student Award (11)
AP Scholar (11)</p>

<p>SUMMER ACTIVITIES
2004 (after freshman year)- volunteer with Rock the Vote campaign, JSA California Summer Symposium, student in special international relations lecture course (one of 20 high school students selected)—not for credit even though it was at a local college
2005 (after sophomore year)- internship with Congressman, traveled to El Salvador where I worked w/ NGOs and various government officials to help bring about a plan to help the country rise out of poverty (went w/ one of those travel companies)
2006 (after junior year)- internship with Senator, attended NFL (Debate) nationals in Texas, participant in Chicano Latino Youth Leadership Project (CLYLP) (one of 120 high school students in CA selected to attend), internship w/ local law firm, internship w/ city’s mayor</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>I think that you have a decent chance. Good luck.</p>

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<p>would BC be a safety, match, or reach for me?</p>

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<p>Your chances are pretty good, def not a safety school. I had slightly better boards and things and got in, but Yale was my first choice. Either way since I got accepted its only gotten harder, with less than 10% applicants getting in.</p>

<p>GOOD LUCK!</p>

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<p>Less than 10% of applicants getting in? Noo. BC's acceptance rate for 2005 was 32%. It went down for this year's class, but not by THAT much.</p>

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<p>Well thats acceptance rate, I am using the rate that BC likes. The actual class size is about 2000, but the applicant pool is 26,000! So with those numbers its less than 10%, but they obviously admit more.</p>

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<p>waaaay more. it's deffinitely 32%, because while 2000 people of the addmitted pool chose to go to BC, obviously not everyone who was addmitted is going there.</p>