<p>Male
Black</p>
<p>3.25uwGPA
3.7weighted
~ALL AP & HONORS~</p>
<p>Rank: N/A</p>
<p>SAT: 2300
Subject: Am History & Literature (790 both)</p>
<p>ECs
-Student Council President (School-wide election)
-Founder of Fundraising Club (very popular)
-Tutor
- Debate ~ Lincoln Douglas (awards)
- Basketball & Football ~ Varsity</p>
<p>GPA Layout: (approximate)
Freshman: 2.7 ; 3.5
Sophomore: 3.0 ; 2.8
Junior: 3.5 ; 4.0*</p>
<p>*still a Junior, my probably grade this semester</p>
<p>Passions include charity, my father started a local non-profit organization that is governmentally recognized.</p>
<p>Should I ED? Does my URM status help?</p>
<p>Poor grades a result of carelessness. Recommendations from teachers who saw me to from B to A in class.</p>
<p>Essays = Superb</p>
<p>Thanks guys</p>
<p>Being a URM will help, but it is extremely unlikely with those grades. Have you spoken to coaches about possibly being recruited for a sport?</p>
<p>Stanford’s a reach for anyone. The glaring thing is sophmore year. What happened? Also Stanford will likely get a couple thousand applications from very well qualified black students like yourself. Point is - I’m not sure if the URM is that big a deal since the demand is so great. GL.</p>
<p>Not a recruit ~ don’t want to play at next level</p>
<p>Sophomore year was a wreck but Stanford doesn’t look @ Freshman grades so it’s an upward trend</p>
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<li>could I get into Cornell</li>
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<p>Any ivy is a major reach with those grades, so probably not. You have to understand that most applicants to ivies have perfect or near perfect grades for all of high school (>3.8) and you did not achieve those grades for a single semester.</p>
<p>I am in my last and will as a Senior. Plus my SAT is better than most and I’m a URM.</p>
<p>Just sayin</p>
<p>You asked for people’s thoughts on your chances, I simply gave you mine. You have to remember that most people applying to ivies have good scores and the high score/low GPA combination implies laziness which is something schools don’t want in their students.</p>