<p>hispanic urm ivy league chances </p>
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<p>Hello, everyone.</p>
<p>I transferred out of a low-income, 97% Hispanic high school to a small, public intensive dual enrollment program at a local college.</p>
<p>Here's the dish:</p>
<p>Hispanic male
First-generation American
Spanish was primary language
Father: GED; Mother: No High School
SAT I: CR-750; M-640; W-770
SAT II: Spanish: 770; US Hist: 650; BioM: 650
AP: Bio-4; English Lit-4; US Hist: 5 (most school offered)
Enrolled: AP Calc. AB, AP US Gov't, AP English Language
GPA: 3.4 U; 4.9 W
College GPA: 3.75 </p>
<p>Dual Enrollment Courses:
General Chemistry I
General Chemistry I Lab
General Chemistry II
General Chemistry II Lab
Organic Chemistry (next semester)
Organic Chemistry II Lab (taking next semester)
Physics without Calculus
Physics without Calculus Lab (attended for no credit)
Human Anatomy and Physiology
Wellness and Health
Microcomputers
Intro. to Philosophy
Intro. to Psychology
(a bunch others too)</p>
<p>Clubs:
President MUN
President Social Studies Club
President Science Club
Vice President German Club
NHS
Phi Theta Kappa
Mu Alpha Theta
FBLA
FEA</p>
<p>Work:
I work 10 hrs a week at a welding shop as a handyman [manual labor, welding, clerical stuff].
during the summer, I work full time from 7:30 - 5:30</p>
<p>ECs:
Campaigned for a Senator by going door to door to reach out to hispanic voters and talking to convincing them to vote in spanish.</p>
<p>Created SAT Tutoring Program in my former high school for underpriveleged minority students who were enrolled in Gifted to increase their CR and W scores. The class was taught during the summer. I initiated the class, organized the location, and kept it under student control. It was aimed at minority students whose native language was spanish, who were enrolled in gifted, and who were too poor to afford Kaplan or whatever.</p>
<p>Created Math tutoring program for those same students who were interested in taking advanced mathematics courses at the college level, but needed to pass the college entrance exam for it. I taught a class to increase their scores in order to take advanced dual enrollment courses at the college. Now, those same students have continued the trend and are teaching their underclassmen. I created a cycle in which students teach students. Mind you, this only surrounds the gifted class... which, since it's in a low income place, is occupied by only minority students who have cultural barriers.</p>
<p>Created Science tutoring program to tutoring science at the college level, AP level, and honors level for chemistry, biology, anatomy, and physics. I have tutored students in these different disciplines to perform well on standarized exams.</p>
<p>Dual enrollment advisement: I took the initiative in going back to my former school and enrolling bright students who didn't know about the advanced mathematics and science courses offered at the local college. The community service project boomed and it gained a lot of support and registered a lot of students for the program. I created a trend in which students now take advanced mathematics courses at the college level to challenge themselves, thereby changing the number of students taking advanced mathematics and science courses in their high school.</p>
<p>English Tutoring: I tutored students to perform well on the AP exams and how to understand English grammar in our society. Ehm, it was aimed at the same group of minority students who have troubles with English and are mostly immigrants themselves. </p>
<p>I also tutored for German, the language I took in high school, and a million other things too. The community service projects I've commited myself to have created a big impact in the schools I've attended. From increased enrollment to having students teach other students, it has created a new trend in my former high school in which students are teaching each other to better themselves to be able to compete with all the other prep. school kids.</p>
<p>I had to explain them because they're meaningful that way. You have to see it in the context of where it was initiated to fully appreciate it. I've been nominated for Silver Knight after that. </p>
<p>Awards:
free summer dartmouth college thing program i was selected to attend
1st place german poetry competiton
2nd place german poetry (year after)
4th place german grammar
2nd place german art
ap scholar
chem. olympiad
model un award
college honor society</p>
<p>major:
linguistics mbb and gov't/public policy</p>
<p>wanna be a doctor but with some political background to later pursue it when I get older</p>
<p>uhm... the chem labs I took were from 5:00 to 9:00 at night once a week. The app. explains how I had to go through some crappy damn neighborhoods to get there at night, almost mugged one day too at bus station.</p>
<p>Not a pleasant sight, my friends. lol</p>
<p>Uhm... schools in mind:
harvard
yale
penn
princeton
dartmouth</p>