<p>Chances? Thank you!</p>
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<p>Gender: M
Location: NY
High School: Public HS of around 1500
High School Type: Usually sends a handful to tops, but this year sent many to tops so far.
(My class is VERY competitive and VERY successful compared to others)
Will apply for financial aid: Yes</p>
<p>My dad is Puerto Rican, no high school. He is noncustodial and missing.
My mom is Puerto rican, no college - single mom.
so Hispanic, 1st generation, income ~64k all that jazz.</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA - Unweighted: 4.0
Class Rank: 32 (Don't laugh, Harvard explicitly told me this was OK given the class size)
Class Size: 450
[li]APs: Chem, 5, USH, 5, Bio (now), Calc AB. My school only offers 9 AP's, and most overlap during only 2 periods of the day. There isn't really an opportunity to take more than I have, and I explained that to my schools.</p>[/li]
<p>all honors where honors could fit, and all A's.</p>
<p>Major in Biochem/Premed (Biological basis of behavior at UPenn)</p>
<p>2000 SAT (bad) 650M/670W/680CR
SAT II! - 690Math 2, 710USH, 770 Chem
31 ACT (better...) 35Eng, 31Sci, 29Math, 30 Reading, 32 Writing+English 9/12 Essay</p>
<p>recommendations:
1 GREAT from AP Chem teacher (TAing with her now)
1 GREAT from counselor who knows me VERY well
1 unknown, presumedly great from english teacher who knows me well
1 Awesome from Superintendent of Schools- knows me very well. Huge emphasis on how I did this process all by myself, including FAFSA/CSS/IDOC since my mother works too much to give any support other than $, which I'm grateful for.</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
I think this is where I'm strong...</p>
<p>-Academic team (varsity) co-captain
-Track & XC scholar athlete
-Was on quiz bowl TV show competing for $10,000 for charity
-Manager, coordinator of charity event to raise $20,000 for hunger causes globally and in the community with the superintendent, 2 other students, some community members. Inaugural year of an annual project. The project goes off on 4/2. I'm responsible for media management & event planning.
-I'm a mentor for freshman through the guidance dept.
-National Honor Soc., Math Honor Society, Lead Prosecutor of Mock Trial
-Was assistant JV XC coach when I was out hurt from XC.
-Head of public relations for shark club (we raise & donate money to shark saving charities)
-Freshman tour guide
-Teaching an AP Chemistry lab class. We meet 2x/wk. I set up, coordinate AP labs to demonstrate everything a teacher would. It's on my transcript as Independent Study - Teaching Lab Science Methods.
-Safe School Ambassador: we work with administration to keep the school safe and happy through watchdog efforts, reports on the student body. No, we don't rat people out.
-Clean up crew for XC/Track meets, football games all 4 years.</p>
<p>Hooks: URM (Hispanic) (Idk what else?)</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure that my essays were great, I tend to be a great writer and english teacher-editors had all good remarks after some major overhauls.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! Let me know if any more info is necessary...</p>