What state do you live in, and what are you wanting to study?
On all your highly selective schools, check for the way they classify URM. You may be able to get your Cherokee Tribal acceptance papers in time or can have the ‘pending’ determination settled after your initial application submission.
Look to how your story/you add/contribute to the various selective schools.
Are you looking for almost all costs covered due to low income and the meeting full needs from various schools?
It sounds like you have had a lot of struggles in your life, and you hopefully can find a school where you can happily thrive. You are looking for a big culture shock compared to where most of the study body is coming from - maybe that won’t bother you. Friends and ‘a tribe’ are important to students.
@“aunt bea” I actually just got back from a Yale and Harvard visit recently. Yale I loved, Harvard I felt really marginalized by.
Thanks for the advice everyone!
So your ACT is, what? 33? 34? And what is your class rank? 4.0 GPA doesn’t mean much in a school with rampant grade inflation. Have you taken AP classes? What are your AP scores?
I think you should mark that all your races, including Native American.
This is a very interesting story and could make for a compelling essay if (and I mean that as a very big “if”) you can write it in a way that it’s about you, the applicant, rather than your grandfather. Maybe about the process of learning the story, becoming curious about your heritage, researching, etc.
@CTTC 33 Composite, my school does not rank, I go to a Private school known for it’s rigor I have taken 5 exams with all 5s and one 4 and next year I am set to take 8 AP’s
How long have you been at your current school? You say you left your parents at age 17. Who is paying for this private school? Any chance they could help you find ways to fund your college costs?
A 33 ACT composite is not a slam dunk for acceptance into Ivy League schools where less than 10% of applicants get accepted. Most schools do NOT consider AP scores when considering applications for admission. Dartmouth, for example, does not any longer award college credit for AP courses.
I hope your net is a wider one than just the Ivies.
And a private school known for its rigor should have strong college counselors who can guide you through these questions, help you streamline this multi-piece story and support you in their school report.
Over the course of 4 or 5 threads, no one here has enough info about your school targets, location, or scores, to advise. And as we often say on CC, simply falling into the mid-range of scores for a highly competitive college is not enough. Many of the kids with lower scores may be recruited athletes, kids with some strong connection to the college, etc. Nor is a non-profit a tip, many kids do that.
Your story is a bit confusing to me… You just recently found out that you have NA blood… Yet you would like to know if you can gain extra points from “being” part of the ultra-URM; but it appears that you haven’t participated in its culture… Call me a skeptic, but if I were part of the adcom I would look with a magnifying glass into your application… Regardless, good luck.
Registering a legal entity, whether a S Corp, C Corp, LLC, or 501(c)(3), is actually very simple. Instructions and the necessary forms are readily available in “how to” books and filing fees are nominal, at least in my state.
Getting IRS approval for a 501(c)(3) is ridiculously easy. One of my kids completed the application in about 30 minutes.
As I recall, the total cost of getting the forms, registering the corporation, and obtaining IRS nonprofit approval was under $100 and took my 14 year old child less than 4 hours.
@Madison85 Eight AP’s are more than doable at my school, the average number of exams for a grad is 12. We run year round so it’s not actually that big of a deal. Plus our classes are less homework based and more applied learning. I found that at some of my public schools advanced just meant more busy work, not actually more learning and that’s very different at my current school and also allows me time for a full time job.
I partnered with a local music business to start it, they also helped with a lot of the logistics of my programs! @QuintoSol I don’t want to know if I can get “extra points” I want to know if I will be penalized for marking it if I don’t yet have a legal registration in my tribe. @lookingforward I always feel sort of awkward posting stats and stuff, our school has great guidance but most of our students go abroad to college in Israel because I go to a predominantly Jewish school and it is cheaper I guess? Plus it’s of cultural significance I think.
I honestly don’t know exactly what I’m looking for. I got flown out to a couple places that I really liked. I liked Yale and Dartmouth very much when I was there, but as you said these schools are a long shot for anyone. I want to major in Psychology/Education. I want to be a teacher but I also want to go to a school where I can still take science and Math classes outside of my major. So schools that have schools within them and limit a student from taking other courses are not a good fit either. I like Ithaca and they are a “safety” of sorts but not financially. I have great grades, test scores and what I would like to think is a very unique essay but I also have literally negative dollars in my bank account at the moment … so money’s the real issue here.
I don’t believe Dartmouth or Yale offers education degree programs. Excellent schools, but if you really want to become a teacher, after your Ivy degree, you will need to go to college someplace to take the courses required for certification.
