What are the chances of me getting into U of I Urbana with these stats? I take 3 AP classes this year and last year and have gotten AP scholar.
How much will affirmative action help me out?
My GPA has seen an overall drop so I describe it here:
My condolences go out to my deceased past, for I am now incapable of embracing it when I possessed the occasion to improve with the objective of increased achievement. I acknowledge that the scores I currently present do not automatically disqualify me from the Illini nor consider me inadequate for a placement in the university, however, I shall express that my voyage as the first individual in my family to encounter such education my aging Hispanic relatives have seldom experienced was like visiting a planet similar to Mars: uncharted and hardly known. I detached myself from the demands of my sincere high school which frankly provided a lackluster learning experience, both self and institution. Grade point averages over the years were apparent in their diminishing trend and the opportunity to attend more prestigious institutions dwindled. It, ironically proved somewhat beneficial. In seeking the truth to wisdom and education, I had become aroused with knowledge and I lusted the act of mentoring. The letters and numbers fail to disclose it, but I became stimulated with the solution to my disliking of the structure of secondary education. I am currently writing a treatise covering the blemishes of my high school by offering answers to some of the flaws it precipitates. I write on and on, none of which I believe was depicted solely through my grade point averages and SAT score. I would soon consider myself an autodidact if it were not for the profoundly enticing opportunity to attend the University of Illinois. As a first generation son, academic blunders were exerted, and I am entirely accountable for them. I now praise education with a differed mindset in which this institution I am firmly willing to enter could assist me in my new objective of seeking a reconstruction to our public education system alluring scholars more towards wisdom, a byproduct of education. I wish that you comprehend my message I am expressing.
This is my essay describing my interest in a major of history for secondary education in about 400 words:
There is something enthralling—and petrifying—that my dear mentor, George Orwell, cautioned me on the endangerment of a bona fide history: if lies were recurrent, then the lies would become fabricated truths. From the moment I read his bestseller, 1984, it became apparent to me that pure history is the fire which keeps an entire civilization alive, though it can be extinguished with a bucket of their own contempt. It concerns me that my high school’s social studies curriculum has restrained the innovation of my educators who have a career purposeful in stressing the prominence of history. While my peers slumber through what they think are futile lessons from our society’s blunders, I have recalled Orwell’s prophecy and its application to my contemporary surroundings. I come across my acquaintances desiring to somehow advise them that we need to safeguard history like it was their own lives. I need history to not only repair our flawed society, but to also sustain my vigor for American politics and to teach others the truth of our American lives. The deceased mentor I never met is alive within me, unleashing a drive to become a guardian of our history from manipulation and counterfeit.
A remedy to the apathy of history occurred to me while I tutored sophomores in an algebra class. I witnessed them all with a mild sense of sorrow as revealed by their lifeless attitudes towards mathematics. Each lesson: a departed crowd. One day, the teacher introduced a variety of candies for an exercise relating to statistics.
“See? Isn’t math fun sometimes?” she cheerfully remarked as all the students consumed their beloved sweets.
Inspired to awaken souls into the seemingly dreary world of history, I now seek a teaching career in history to captivate my young audience to appreciate history’s intricate stories, and I desire to warn them on our civil duty to shield our history from deception. I have discussed my ambitious objectives to an assistant principal at my institution who was highly optimistic of my idea of returning to my high school in four years as a Hispanic history teacher. Feverishly buoyant myself, I Illustrate my intent to honor my yearning to defend our societal history from neglect and abuse and to become a notable educator in my school.
George Orwell awakened myself to the inconvenient truth of our status quo. His wisdom allowed myself to escape the matrix of well being and be introduced to the reality of our predicaments as a civilization.
Phew, I think that’s all. A percentage would be nice to describe my chances to get in.