<p>Is it too late to be contacted? I'm not too sure of my chances outside of those programs and I think I am a good candidate for them. I REALLY want to go to Columbia :( and so far not so much as an email to conduct an interview. I did have an alumni interview, but not a HEOP/NOP interview. Anyone have any idea if I still may be contacted?</p>
<p>What is HEOP for? I heard that it’s for First Generation College students? How would I apply, considering the fact that I’m also pretty much a first generation college student?</p>
<p>me too man, m in the same boat as you…guess we’ll get rejected together! 
but any other schools you applied to?</p>
<p>Looks like your getting rejected. All my friends had their heop interviews in early march. The process is done for sure</p>
<p>@mosudan:
Macaulay Honors @ City College: Rejected (They went mad hard this year, rejected someone with a 3.9 and 2300 SATS w/ loads of really good ECs and essays)</p>
<p>MIT: Rejected (Applied for the hell of it, I KNEW I was getting rejected.)</p>
<p>Columbia: Maybe we MIGHT get in through normal RD! I hope so</p>
<p>Cornell: Again HEOP/NOP, also no interview…</p>
<p>Cooper Union: Seriously Doubting it…</p>
<p>Manhattan College: In with $11k/year merit scholarship, but tuition is high and I dont want to have loans for undergrad. </p>
<p>NYU Polytechnic: In with $12k/year merit scholarship, tuition is high (though I still didnt get my financial aid packet)</p>
<p>CUNY City College: In and a finalist for the New York Times Scholarship Program (which is $7500/year and a laptop! Basically Macaulay Honors minus the culture pass and the stipend… which is not bad because there has to be ways to get those kind of stipends to study abroad in the summer)</p>
<p>As of NOW, Im going to City College because it is the only one I can afford.</p>
<p>^ What are your stats?</p>
<p>You seem to have great stats if you got into poly w.o. heop and to have been a nytimes finalist… so I wish you the best of luck …I’m awaitng cornell and columbia too!!</p>
<p>@shaheiruddin</p>
<p>Personal Factors
-Intended Major: Civil Engineering!
-Family Income:$10,000
-Ethnicity:Latino (Peruvian)
-From New York City (Queens)
-First Generation going to College</p>
<p>The Numbers:
-GPA: 3.61 (90.49%)
-SAT CR: 670 (took it twice this was my best score, the first time I got a 540)
-SAT M: 680 (took it twice this was my best score, the first time I got a 640)
-SAT W: 640 (again took it twice this was my best score, the first time I got a 600)
-SATII Physics: 610
-SATII Math 1: 620</p>
<p>APs:
-AP Computer Science A (I got a 4)
-AP World History (I got a 4)
-AP Spanish (Didn’t take the test yet)
-AP Statistics (Didn’t take the test yet)</p>
<p>High School:
-Townsend Harris High School (very, very competitive)</p>
<p>Curriculum:
All honors courses and APs since freshman year. I am also a year a head in math and science (I took two regents in middle school). I am also in a bridge year program with Queens College that is allowing me to take 2 Queens college classes per semester this year. At Queens College I am currently taking Freshman Humanities Seminar (HTH101) and The Physics of Sound (PHYS007). I am also doing a Robotics independent study</p>
<p>Current Classes:
-AP Statistics (AP)
-AP Spanish (AP)
-HTH 101 Freshman Humanities Seminar (Queens College)
-PHYS 007 The Physics of Sound
-Advance Topics In Science (Honors)
-Advanced Robotics (Independent Study/Honors)
-Weight Management (Gym)
-Participatory Democracy (Honors)</p>
<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
-US FIRST Robotics team member (I’m the captain of our teams programming division, been on since the second year the team started, 2 years counting this year)
-I amateur box (yes box, 4 years, was 280 pounds (lots of fat) and now am 228 (lots muscle) and still dropping),
-American Computer Science League (3 years),
-200 hours community service with New Immigrant Community Empowerment,
-50 Hours Community Service under Former Senator John Sabini (He left for another position in Albany and I lost my job with him),
-WPI FRONTIERS Robotics Summer Program Participant, (Junior Year)
-Manhattan College Summer Program For Women and Minority Students Interested in Engineering Participant (yes that’s the long name the program has), (Junior Year)
-ACE Mentor Program (This year)</p>
<p>Recognitions:
-National Honor Society (2 years),
-National Society for High School Scholars (3 years),
-National Latin Examination I: Magna Cum Laude Silver Medal.
-My school’s Deans/Principal’s List (3 years and probably this year making 4)</p>
<p>Recommendations:
-1 from my Calculus Teacher (She’s had me for Sophomore and Junior Year, knows me quite well)
-1 from my Physics/Robotics teacher who is also my Robotics independent study mentor AND my US FIRST ROBOTICS team coach (Definitely a good rec. He’s gotten one of my friends into Dartmouth and another into Columbia(the kid who got into Dartmouth has my GPA but 1410 SAT M+CR).
-1 from my Spanish Literature Teacher (I have a multitude of personal conversations with her over the years, knows me as a student and as a person very well)</p>
<p>Essays:
-Excellent!</p>
<p>Misc:
-I have a rare autoimmune Disease called Still’s Disease, which attacks my skin and joints, that effects my everyday life. I wrote about it in my essays as a significant adversity I have had to face.
-I also come from a single parent home, my father abandoned my mom and I when I was 4.</p>
<p>anyone think i have a shot without heop?</p>