URM Chances Low GPA High SAT Ivies & More

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi everybody, I would appreciate it if you guys could evaluate my chance to these schools</p>

<p>African-American Male, From Georgia
Very Competitive High School
GPA UW: 3.35
WT: 3.80
Top 19% of Class 149/786
Most Rigorous Courseload
9 AP's by graduation
SAT: CR 750 M 720 WR 730 1470/220
AP Scores AP World History 5 AP Us History 5 AP French 2
SAT IIs I will take Math Level II, US History, and Literature
Academic Honors:
Georgia Governor's Honors Program ( Social Studies Major), National Merit Semi-finalist, National Achievement Semi-Finalist, Venture Scholar, Gold Honor Roll 5x, Silver Honor Roll 1x, High Five Club ( Raised GPA .5 from one semester to the next, Inaugural Member) 2x, Most Distinguished Student Gifted Current Issues, Most Distinguished Student Honors United States History, Top Student in Health, National Honor Society, Beta Club, Business Leadership Team (Highest Performing Business Students)</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Model United Nations 11, 12,-Vice President/ Head Delegate, Letter Competitor, GTHSMUN Most Oustanding Delegate, KSUMUN Most Distinguished Delegate
Kennesaw City Youth Council 9, 10- Sworn in Councilmen, Youth Subsidary of the City Council, First freshman ever selected to the program, Operated as a branch of the city gov't
Business Club 10, 11, 12-Business Club Leadership Team, Selected for being among the highest performing business students
Beta Club 10, 11, 12-Elected to Membership for having above a 3.5 GPA
National Honor Society 12-Elected to Membership for having above a 3.7 GPA
Georgia Governors Honors Program Summer after 11th grade-Advanced past school, district, and state level to qualify for the program as a Social Studies Major, Program for the most gifted students in Georgia</p>

<p>Work Experience
Front Service Clerk, Publix Supermarkets 25 hours per week</p>

<p>Senior Year Courseload
First Semester Second Semester
AP Calc AB AP Calc BC
AP Chem AP Lang
AP Econ AP Gov
Risk Management & Insurance Latin IY</p>

<p>Colleges I am applying to:</p>

<p>Reaches:
Harvard
Yale
Cornell
Princeton
Amherst</p>

<p>Matches:
NYU
Boston College
Wake Forest
Emory </p>

<p>Safety:
Georgia Tech</p>

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<p>work your butt off senior year 1st semester and raise your gpa. do that and you'll most likely be accepted into atleast 3 of your reaches, and all of you matches, and safteties.</p>

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<p>thanks for the response, im applying rd to all those schools except tech so lets hope your right, anyone else?</p>

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<p>Your rank is really too low for a lot of these schools. Even though you're a URM.</p>

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<p>what is urm?</p>

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<p>underrepresented minority</p>

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<p>i know my rank is low. but i have an explanation, there is a science and math magnet in my school, and they begin to earn quality points in the ninth grades, while non magnet honors students can only begin to earn quality points in 10th grade, my counselor will explain this, the highest ranking non magnet student is like in the upper 20's anyway, if i make all a's first semester i should be around top 12 %</p>

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<p>besides rank and gpa how do my other stats look? thanks</p>

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<p>Ok. Good but not great. All your reaches will have more impressive kids to choose.</p>

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<p>thanks........</p>

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<p>I'd say you get in thanks to URM.</p>

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<p>No! I hate this misconception. A given Ivy League class will have anywhere from 70-100 black students. There are 800 National Achievement Finalists every year, more than enough to fill out the Ivy League.</p>

<p>These top schools do not need to accept a lower caliber of student just to round out their minority numbers. And unless a student comes from a very low income family (we're talking less than $30k for a family of four here) they WILL NOT make allowances for URM status.</p>

<p>Obviously the OP is a qualified applicant and has a good shot, but it is in no way a guarantee or even a great shot. URM or not.</p>

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<p>If you get all A's first semester, you'll probably get into one of your reaches.</p>

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<p>well just for the sake of argument, their might be 800 national achievement finalist each year, but that doesn't mean that they all scored amazingly high on the sat I mean the NA cut-off is usually around high 180's to low 190's, and we know that those scores are not exactly ivy league caliber, I mean just look at the SAT statistics only a small fraction of African-American score above 2100 on the SAT, In this respect NA finalist means nothing</p>

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<p>^ i'd have to agree w/ thingsfallapart. but ses, you are right that not every urm w/ a 2100+ is guaranteed acceptance into an ivy, however, it is very probable.</p>

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<p>Harvard actually takes about 150 black kids, but honestly, i don't think your GPA or rank is high enough. you explained your rank, but what's up with the GPA?</p>

<p>I mean, even though you are a minority, i'd still say that Harvard, Princeton, and Yale are crapshoots.</p>

<p>You have the test scores and ecs, but not the grades or rank, so it could honestly go either way.</p>

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<p>Thingsfallapart, I sent you a pm</p>

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<p>You've taken 9 AP's, but you're barely in the top 20%???? How does that work? If you did that at my school, you'd be at least top 5%!</p>

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<p>^ not if you got C's and B's in them.</p>

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<p>All A's first quarter and you're into cornell</p>