<p>SAT: CR 620/M 490/W 690 (now play nice with these I know they suck)
SAT II: Spanish 590</p>
<p>ECs: 6 clubs+ jazz band, top marching & concert band, basketball band
National Honor Society, National Spanish Honor Society,
Officer of two clubs</p>
<p>Awards: Best 5A Jazz soloist trophy
4 UIL band medals (made state once)
4 academic excellence awards
National Society of high school scholars
mentoring award
officer award</p>
<p>Hook: URM hispanic (please be nice)</p>
<p>Work experience: summer nursing home job</p>
<p>great recs good essay (my english teacher said it was great at least)</p>
<p>irish said i'm a reach and I believe him..what do you guys think at least? Any comments, advice are welcome. Thanks!</p>
<p>YES!! I also like getting caught in the rain, I'm not into yoga, and I have half a brain (just look at my math score). But seriously, what are my chances?</p>
<p>It's a reach with your current SAT scores. I'd study and retake if you're a junior, and if you're a senior, then there's nothing you really can do, except hope you wrote a kickass essay.</p>
<p>Spanish is my 2nd language but unfortunately I'm a senior already. I can't afford to retake the test a lot and buy all the study books and the thousand dollar tutoring services. I know my essay is pretty good though because it made my teacher cry haha. But yeah I know its a reach with my scores. Anyone else? I won't bite.</p>
<p>It's a pretty dramatic reach bc of those scores. Not saying you won't get in, but they probably accept like 5% of the people w/those SATs, and, not to be offensive, but those people are most likely athletes or have a depressing life story, and ND wants to give em a shot. Basically if you wrote a once-in-a-lifetime essay, you might get in. Good luck!</p>
<p>uhhh I don't know how to interpret your post there. It's a dramatic reach..(I take this to mean there's no way in heck) but then you go on to say I'm not saying you won't get in. And then you say I won't get in because I'm not depressing and my essay hasn't won a nobel prize...but I still just might get in! Could of just said no because you come off as a bit contradictory and pretentious. Anyone else want to comment (without using made up 5% random statistics)?</p>
<p>Ok, if you don't get it, I'll be a bit more obvious: there's probably a 95% chance you'll be either denied or waitlisted. Seeing that your SATs are very, very low by ND standards and you haven't made up for it by doing something amazing like discovering a periodic element, you probably won't get in. Being a URM helps, but it isn't going to make up for a sub-1800 SAT, and a sub-500 math score. I'm not being pretentious at all, I think my post was pretty fair, and you asked for honest opinions. If you want the inspirational "you're a solid match" thing, bump the SATs up 300 points.</p>
<p>That being said, I really do wish you the best of luck in all of your future academic experiences. If you get in, I'll be the first to congratulate you. Go Irish.</p>
<p>haha i know I was going to edit that part out after I posted. When I said I won't bite I meant it for constructive criticism. I wasn't asking for pity posts telling me what I wanted to hear. Basically you told me to improve my app I need to become depressing and turn into Michael Jordan. Sorry I just had to point that out. It wasn't constructive criticism at all.</p>
<p>Umm, that's not what I said, I never mentioned MJ. </p>
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<p>You aren't a scholarship athlete. So if you wrote about a hardship, or something really touching, that might help. I know it sounds derogatory, but anyone who knows a rat's a$$ about admissions knows it's the truth. Sounds like constructive criticism to me, I told you what to do to have a better shot at admissions. Don't make something up by any means, and don't take advantage of other people's misfortunes. But make your essays something they won't forget, be it humerous, motivating, sad, etc. That's really your only shot. Good luck, sorry if this was a complete waste of your time, which apparently it was. I was just trying to help you out.</p>
<p>alright thanks for the clarification. If you want me to pm you my essay I can. Maybe that will help. I don't think you wasted my time at all I just took your posts as meaning something else. I don't know as much about the admissions process that's why I'm here. Thanks</p>
<p>Okay, if you don't want honest opinions don't ask for any. Everything vc said is completely true. wow, people are annoying as hell. Have fun with your acceptance letters to "great schools"--if ND is your last school, don't apply. Have a good one.</p>
<p>Well considering it's February I've obviously already applied. And I never disagreed with anything he said I even admitted my test scores were ****. I just thought he was purposely trying to be hurtful as are you. Why is it so hard to believe I got into good schools? Not everyone is obsessed with the Ivies and getting perfect scores. I have a life.</p>
<p>uhh, why would I purposely try to be hurtful? That's the most bogus thing I've heard in a while. And jvon isn't doing it at all either. You just have a really thin skin.</p>
<p>To be honest I thought you were being hurtful vc because your tone was very sarcastic. There are ways to be completely honest and nice at the same time you know. As for jvon, I meant constructive as in adding something helpful to the situation not making me feel like complete ****. So I think I get the point I didn't post this to start arguments with people so you both can leave me be now.</p>