Underprivileged chances for Stanford and other ivies. HELP

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>A little background: Hello. I am a 16 yr old Black Male in an F rated, underprivileged school (metal detectors and all) from Inner City Brooklyn New York who intends on enrolling into college in 2013.</p>

<p>Currently Im a Junior</p>

<p>GPA 3.9
97 Average 94 Unweighted
Class Rank Top 3% of 475</p>

<p>Intended Major: Computer Science</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Black Location: Outskirts of Brooklyn Projects (figure this will get me alot of underprivileged and minority points) >80,000 income</p>

<p>Courses</p>

<p>Freshmen.
Basic stuff my school doesent offer honors courses</p>

<p>Softmore
Basic Stuff but A.P World History. 3 on AP Exam</p>

<p>Junior</p>

<p>Earth Science
Advanced Algebra and Trig
A.P Us History 4
A.P English 3
Java
French
Gym</p>

<p>Senior schedule (havent started but good chance scores will be as represented</p>

<p>A.P Java 5
A.P English 4
A.P psychology 4
A.P Economics 4
A.P Chemistry 4
French</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars</p>

<p>Member of first ever Cross Country Team (junior year)
Captian of Cross Country Team (senior)</p>

<p>Current Track Team CAPTAIN of my schools first ever track team (Junior & Senior)</p>

<p>Member of Model Congress (Outstanding delegate award at dalton private school(out of 80+ ppl)
President of Model Congress (Senior Year)</p>

<p>President and Founder of Newspaper Club (junior and senior)</p>

<p>30 Hrs of Math Tutoring</p>

<p>National Honor Society 2yrs</p>

<p>National French Honors Society 2yrs</p>

<p>Ping Pong Club 2 yrs</p>

<p>Church Choir (4 years)</p>

<p>Skateboarding</p>

<p>Amusement park host (summer job)</p>

<p>Member of protest against the closing of NY public schools</p>

<p>****MOST IMPORTANTLY of my extracurriculars is that i TAUGHT MYSELF TO CODE. I have a passion for computer programming. As of now I am planning on finishing an App for android phones that ive been coding all through summer and into school in.</p>

<p>Test Scores</p>

<p>Math- 710
Critical -720
Writing -710</p>

<p>My essays are extremely solid as are on autism in my family, and the difficulties of teaching myself to code.</p>

<p>Recommendations will be really good. 1 is from my retired ap social teacher (world and us) Who we had a goodbye dinner for upon retirement and personally said to me "You'll do fine wherever you go in life."</p>

<p>2nd is from Ap English Teacher of whom i helped keep his job (my school was cutting teachers) by establishing the newspaper club and making him chair.</p>

<p>Lastly, apart from giving your opinion on what my chances are, give me some constructive criticizm and possible tell what more i could do or what i could do differently. Thanknx</p>

<p>Anyways. Thats my first post. Help me out and ill proly get u back </p>

<p>Thankyou</p>

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<p>Let me get this straight, BLACK and UNDERPRIVILEGED?</p>

<p>Good luck at MIT bro</p>

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<p>You have a good shot at any of the top schools</p>

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<p>In what world is >$80000 underprivileged? The American average is <$50000! Decent grades, normally almost no chance of getting in but these forums have thought me that your URM status is a major hook so I think your in. Good luck, wish you the best.</p>

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<p>Is this a ■■■■■??? Brooklyn “projects”?? No project dwellers are making $80,000/year… come on now!!! This MUST be a ■■■■■!!</p>

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<p>Another question for you… how are you at an F level school in BK but the president of the Model Congress at a prestigous school in Manhattan? This school is actually going to let some kid from an F level school from BK be president of a club? How is that possible? Something just doesn’t pass the smell test on this one…</p>

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<p>There are a few problems I have with the OP
1.) As NewHavenCTmom said, $80K a year is not really underprivileged and would get you out of the “projects”.
2.) The grammar used in the original post is not the caliber of a student with those test scores.
3.) Stanford is not a member of the Ivy League, as the title of this thread would suggest.
4.) The OP took Earth Science has a junior, but is taking AP Chem as a senior. That seems like too big of a jump to be real.
5.) Why would such a poor school facing layoff cuts have a National French Honors Society?</p>

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<p>There seems to be alot of criticizm surrounding my initial post. First off let me say that NO I AM NOT A ■■■■■. Secondly on the issue of income i didn’t necessarily ask my parents as to how much they make a year and i now know that they rake in about 45 thousand a year upon asking personally. Thirdly I am the model congress president IN MY SCHOOL and I WON THE OUTSTANDING DELEGATE AWARD “AT” DALTON PRIVATE SCHOOL. 4th. My school requires that i take Earth Science before A.P chemistry, I already have the recommendation and my school does not offer transitional classes between Regular and A.P levels such as honors classes. Lastly, i find it preposterous that “xcalculatin” is using my writing as a reference point to judge my intelligence and figures that I’m lying regarding my SAT scores. Because of that comment i would actually challenge your intelligence for using something as minuscule as what I type on a website to determine my performance on a standardized test where writing encompasses such a small part of the grade. Moreover if I started a newspaper club and performed averagely in AP English what makes you think that this is how i would write (or type) for a marked essay? </p>

<p>school link
[John</a> Dewey High School - insideschools.org](<a href=“http://insideschools.org/high/browse/school/900]John”>http://insideschools.org/high/browse/school/900)</p>

<p>Notice the statistics on attendance,(85%) graduation rate (65%), College Enrollment: 52.1% and College Ready: 29.7%</p>

<p>p.s i don’t know why we have a national french honors society.</p>

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<p>From my knowledge about nearly all NYC public schools, John Dewey High School is not an F rated school (nor has it has never been) nor is it an underprivileged school. John Dewey is a B rated school and it’s actually a high-average performing school. I don’t know what you’re talking about. Your extracurricular activities and SAT scores are impressive but I think you’re exaggerating to get a “yes” from one of the colleges you’re coveting and/or from the people on this forum. It’s not going to work. Colleges research your high school, so it’s best not to play dumb with them.</p>

<p>It’s either that (the exaggerating), or you’re using statistics from 2009 or something. I clicked on the link and it says 89% attendance rate, 72% graduation rate and 35% college readiness. Where are you getting these numbers from?</p>

<p>Regardless of this, by stating that you’re black and you go to an “underprivileged” school when in reality it’s not is not a good thing. Be honest. I think when you said “underprivileged school” you meant low-budget, because you mentioned a lot of teachers were being cut. Sad reality in NYC schools, huh?</p>

<p>Anyway, a lot of John Dewey graduates end up getting accepted into prestigious universities including Ivy Leagues, so it’s not a problem for you. You won’t have trouble getting into Stanford (which is not an Ivy by the way) et al. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Good shot anywhere, although your SAT and GPA can be improved. Good luck!</p>