Princeton Chances? RD

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<p>General Information:</p>

<p>Year: Senior this Fall.
Age entering college: 17
Ethnicity: African-Canadian (Born in Nigeria, West Africa)
Location: Canada (I go to the top public school in Western Canada)
Class Rank: School doesn't rank, I would probably gaurantee top 5%
SAT: Not taken yet (When answering, assume a 2250+ score, I never score lower on practice tests. Will be taking it in October)
SAT II: Math II and Chemistry (Will be taking these in November on the same day, expect a 750+ based on practice)
Family Income: $150000-$200000 (Not something we talk about lol)</p>

<p>Grades</p>

<ul>
<li>Freshman Year Grades: N/A, these are not put on transcripts where I live (Alberta) because high school starts in grade 10.</li>
<li>Sophomore Year: Essentially straight As, marks ranged from high to mid 90s.</li>
<li>Junior Year: First semester I basically had straight As, with one 89% (we do percentage GPAs here) and one 87%. Second semester I fell off a bit, with all my grades in the high 80s; which is why I'm making this thread haha. </li>
<li>Senior Year: Unknown so far, I'm going to work WAY harder than I did in the second half of my junior year and shoot for straight As.
-Cumulative GPA: 3.6/3.7 UW - 91%</li>
</ul>

<p>Honor Level Courses: I'm in the IB Certificate program because I had a teacher in grade 9 for Humanities who decided not to give me a recommendation for Social or English IB despite having high 90s in both her classes. The IB Classes I do take are:</p>

<p>IB French A (IB 10, 20, 30)
Pre-IB Science (Pre-IB 10)
IB Biology SL (No HL offered) (IB 20, 30)
IB Physics SL (No HL Offered) (IB 20, 30)
IB Math SL (Couldn't fit HL into my schedule because I'm taking all 3 sciences) (IB 20, 30, 31)
IB Chemistry HL (IB 20, 25, 35, 30)</p>

<p>I only started taking IB exams this May so I don't know any of my scores out of 7 yet, I felt good when writing them though so I expect to do well.</p>

<p>Extra-Curriculars</p>

<ul>
<li>Club Basketball for about 5 years (Equivalent of AAU in the USA)</li>
<li>Varsity Football (Sophomore and Junior years, will likely play as a Senior)
Community Basketball (9 years)</li>
<li>Royal Canadian Air Cadets (For 3 years, attained the rank of Flight Corporal, Cadets is a great leadership program)</li>
<li>Patti Falconer Acting/Modelling Agency (Received many scholarships to acting schools outside Alberta, that I was unable to attend because we won't move. I also received an offer of a lead role in Like Mike 2 the movie; but was unable to participate because my parent's were not around for me to go to Vancouver for the casting. I was 12 or 13 iirc.)</li>
<li>Debate Club, never won anything significant </li>
</ul>

<p>Awards:</p>

<ul>
<li>Honor Society (All of High School)</li>
<li>Alexander Rutherford Scholarship (National Scholarship for Academic Acheivement, received for all of high school)</li>
<li>Northern Basketball Camp All-Star x3</li>
</ul>

<p>Work/Volunteer Experience:</p>

<ul>
<li>Refereed basketball for 2 years. Paid about $13 per game.</li>
<li>Calgary Women's Show: Packing gift bags for thousands of attendees</li>
<li>Helped paint a bridge and do a garage sale for a Women's Shelter in Okotoks</li>
<li>Vacation Bible School Crew Leader at Church for 2 years</li>
<li>Volunteering every Sunday at church for 6 years as a youth leader, teaching younger kids</li>
<li>Tech Management Leader at Church</li>
<li>Miscellaneous other things that I could bring up if I had my resume handy haha.</li>
</ul>

<p>The last thing I want to say is that I'm well respected around the school by teachers, and I'm a good writer so the essay and teacher recommendations shouldn't be a problem. </p>

<p>In regards to the essay, I'm still debating between writing about how travel (I've lived in Scotland, Norway, USA, Canada, Nigeria) has affected my output on life, and writing something race-related. Input on that would be appreciated.</p>

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<p>When chancing me, take my black URM status into account so it's more like what would happen with the real admissions officer. </p>

<p>Also I will be applying for pre-med if that is relevant at all.</p>

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<p>You sound very very solid, but it’s always a crapshoot. I think that your money might start to outweigh your URM status, are you good at football? I know it’s canadian, but Michigan State got a canadian recruit, see if you can be recruited! Your app sounds somewhat similar to mine, except for race and income.</p>

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<p>Nosike, I’ve seen your Chance Me posts in roughly 8 different school forums-- at this point, it’s getting pretty obsessive. You’re a) not going to get vastly different responses from any of the forums, just the typical “you’re a fairly competitive candidate + URM status”. </p>

<p>These chance threads are meant for those who have standardized testing scores; without them, neither I nor any other CC responders have a barometer of what caliber student you really are. I understand that you have lofty projected SAT and SATII scores, but we have no standardized test results of yours to gauge. </p>

<p>If I were you, I would refrain from incessantly poring over these chance threads when no one, not even yourself, has an accurate representation of what your academic profile will be by the time of admissions.</p>

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<p>@tcwest: Relatively high income levels should not affect URM status.</p>

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<p>It doesn’t? I always thought it did. Maybe that’s just 1st gen+high income.</p>

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<p>High income doesn’t affect URM status. It only affects the amount of financial aid you get. Affirmative Action isn’t so much for income, as it is a mediator for the discrimination black people face in society. Despite being relatively wealthy, I still feel the brunt of racism.</p>

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<p>Probably an 85%-95% chance of getting in considering that you are hooked as a URM with good grades, good test scores, and outstanding ECs</p>

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<p>I’d disagree with the fantastic EC’s. They’re very good, however one thing concerns me.
“- Patti Falconer Acting/Modelling Agency (Received many scholarships to acting schools outside Alberta, that I was unable to attend because we won’t move. I also received an offer of a lead role in Like Mike 2 the movie; but was unable to participate because my parent’s were not around for me to go to Vancouver for the casting. I was 12 or 13 iirc.)”</p>

<p>“Unable to attend”, “unable to participate”. Makes it irrelevant unless you did other stuff too. It’s sort of like saying I almost competed in Intel ISEF.</p>

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<p>That’s a good point. I probably wouldn’t put things unless you actually participated to some degree</p>

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<p>I appeared in several commercials and a lower scale movie. It’s just that I wasn’t able to participate in that one job, which probably would have gotten me started on an acting career lol.</p>

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<p>@Trufflie. Do I really have an 85%-95% chance? How many African-Canadians with my scores usually apply would you guess?</p>

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<p>Oh also, if I were to get straight As first semester, would that help my application?</p>

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<p>The best way to increase your chances would be to post more things in a row.</p>

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<p>Umm well ya, getting all As definately will help your application.</p>

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<p>@Nosike</p>

<p>No I was kidding. Ivies are a crapshoot for everyone and it’s even worse for international applicants regardless if you are black or not.</p>

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<p>Umm okay, next time don’t come in here getting my hopes up for no good reason.</p>

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I am starting to hate affirmative action discussion. I really am. But gosh sometimes I cannot help but respond. Your assumption of the purpose of AA is wrong (unless you intend to include perhaps some of the results of discrimination against blacks); Asian and Jewish folk face plenty of discrimination in society but certainly do not benefit from AA. The purpose of AA is to 1) bridge the general academic gap between Caucasians/Asians and African-Americans/Hispanics and 2) provide an advantage to the disadvantaged (though interpretation of this term is probably looser than it should be). </p>

<p>I would say you have approximately a 53.7849111…(repeating)% chance at Princeton. A caveat though: I am using my personal college admissions calculator, which comes with it a 4.52% margin of error.</p>

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<p>How exactly does your calculator work? That sounds like a really good chance though.</p>

<p>Any more chances?</p>

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<p>I don’t know if it has been mentioned, but you’re an international student. This will greatly affect your chances (probably decrease about 3 - 5 times) because universities have quotas on internationals.</p>

<p>I’m not trying to scare you, but the few people whom I knew were accepted at HYPMS from Canada all had some international awards (ex. IMO) and/or excellent national ones.</p>

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<p>Yeah I know that. I don’t have any international awards, but I feel like I can portray myself as a unique individual based on my passions.</p>

<p>Also there are less than 800,000 black Canadians, and obviously even less who are applying to college right now. The majority lack the credentials to get into HYPMS so they won’t even apply, I’m hoping that uniquity will be an added boost.</p>