Princeton ED?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>GPA
unweighted: 3.8462
weighted: 4.5128</p>

<p>Class Rank: 20/746</p>

<p>SAT I:
Verbal 700
Math 790
Writing 720
Essay 9</p>

<p>SAT II:
Literature 640
Physics 800
Math IIC 800</p>

<p>ACT 32</p>

<p>PSAT 227</p>

<p>APs:
US History 4
Psychology 5
Physics B 5</p>

<p>Senior classes:
Advanced (Post AP) Chem and Physics
AP Composition & Literature
AP Bio
AP French
AP Calc BC
Band
AP Econ & Government</p>

<p>School:
Large, public, wealthy, midwest, suburban, around 3000 students</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Piano since age 3, NSMTA Honorable mention, Chicago Duo Piano Competition Winner, Participation in Chicago Duo Piano Festival for 7 consecutive years, 2005 Junior Assistant Coach, Pitten Austria International Music Festival</p>

<p>Marching Band (trombone), Competition Band, Pep Band, Wind Symphony, Jazz Ensemble, orchestra pit (school musical), section leader, American Symphonietta, Protege Philharmonic</p>

<p>Modern Music Masters Vice President</p>

<p>Wrote a piece of music for a small wind ensemble as a supervised independent study project</p>

<p>Hopes for Hope volunteer program in Ensenada, Mexico</p>

<p>AP Scholar, National Merit Semifinalist</p>

<p>Race: 50% Mexican American, 50% White
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<p>Right now, Princeton is my top choice and other I'm interested in are Duke, Stanford, Brown, Harvard and MIT, UMichigan Ann Arbor, USC, UIllinois Champaign-Urbana, and Berkeley. What are my chances at these schools and what should my safety schools be? </p>

<p>Should I use the October SAT to take the french SAT IIs? Should I retake the Lit SAT II? Or should I use the test date to retake the SAT I?</p>

<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.</p>

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<p>please help</p>

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<p>I thnk,
your stats are good
princeton - slight reach
Brown - match</p>

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<p>go French and Lit SAT II's. Your SAT I is fine, but all of that music s*** is pretty gay. JK, I have no idea about your situation as far as Princeton is concerned, but it's all good nonetheless.</p>

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<p>any more opinions?</p>

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<p>1 quesiton out of curiosity. are you considered URM?</p>

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<p>Stop by the Princeton forum and sign up on the ED roster! :)</p>

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<p>
[quote]
Race: 50% Mexican American, 50% White

[/quote]

wow I seriously thought you were Asian until I saw that</p>

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<p>bump........</p>

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<p>bump.......</p>

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<p>will anyone else help me?</p>

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<p>come on!!!</p>

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<p>please please help!!!</p>

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<p>It seems that you have an okay chance, but I would definitely not say you have a sure chance or anything, only because while your resume is good, it is really average of most of their applicants. Be sure to compile several safety schools. If you want to lump it in your categories, it would definitely be a reach. Good luck!</p>

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<p>thanks a lot</p>

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<p>If you were to compare your SAT scores with Hispanic applicants around the country, you'd quickly discover that you are in the top 100-150 in the nation. You are top 3% in your school. And there is nothing else on your resume that would tend to suggest that's a fluke. I think you are going to get in everywhere.</p>

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<p>You'll get in because you're a minority. Without that...</p>

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<p>Don't let anyone guilt-trip you. You are not going to get in because you are a minority. You are going to get in because Princeton (and virtually every other school) sees the advantage to the institution and to All of its students of having highly qualified minority students within its student body (the majority of whom received great boosts in admissions through their family incomes.)</p>

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<p>Apply regular decision this week to Michigan and you may hear before the deadline for safety schools. They tell students on a rolling basis. At Princeton and Harvard, your Hispanic background will not count because you are probably not disadvantaged. Penn would be interested in you and isn't all hung up on the disadvantaged label.</p>

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<p>bump.......</p>