anorexic_abe

9th
english 1-2 A/A
geography/health B/A
Symphony Orchestra A/A
algebra 1-2 B/B
earth science C/B
PE C/D
10th
english 3-4 ACC. B/A
Mod. Wrld Hst. ACC. A/A
Symph. Orch. A/A
Geometry B/A
Biology B/A
PE B/A
11th
English 5-6 Honors A/A
AP US HISTORY A/A
Symph. Orch A/A
AP Art History B/A
Chemistry 1-2 A/A
Intermediate Algebra/Trigonometry Acc. B/A
German 1-2 A/B

Senior Schedule
AP Calculus AB
AP English
AP Gov/Econ
AP Psychology
AP Physics B
german 3-4
chamber orchestra



AP ART History-3
AP US History-3
Actual Test Scores
SAT Reasoning 1940
SAT Subject Tests-
US HISTORY-630
Spanish-730 [retaking, expecting 770]
Taking english sat II, not sure if this is the right title, but I am calling it english lit projected 710


EC's
200+ hours comm service
Overture member-Was the manager for the volunteers who came to help out with the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra
Founded and was the president of a club-2 yrs.
treasurer of a club-1 yr
Tech tutor for 3 yrs.- helped out the local elementary schools teaching little kids photoshop and other digital moviemaking skills.
YMCA Youth Institute- 3 years-helped high school, low income, urban youth, with digital moviemaking skills.
Pasadena YMCA-Taught a summer class on moviemaking
Tutored kids around my neighborhood in Alg. and Chem.
First district youth council (one of the chairs)- a coalition of local youth that worked with the districts representative to bring positive changes to the community.
Link Crew- in charge of being the welcoming committee of the incoming freshmen, guiding them around the school, giving them the breakdown of the school, etc.
YMCA Youth and Government- 1 year.
Paula Fishman Music Studio-5 years [really demanding music teacher and studio, 2-3 hours of practicing a night]
Really strong letter of rec from the director of the YMCA of greater Long Beach, and the Director of the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra.


Lots of awards

Minority
Low income
first in family to go to university
urban school, mostly low income, minority kds.


I live in California, btw
chance me at:
High Reaches-
University of Chicago
Reaches-USC
Low Reaches/High Matches-UC Berkeley, UCLA, NYU
Matches-UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, Pepperdine, Elan University
Safeties- san francisco state university, cal state long beach, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, san jose state university, cal state long beach, boston university, san diego state

Also, any ones I should not bother with, or any suggestions for school?
I would like to go into Business or Law.











obvisously, my grades improved alot since my freshmen year, which shows growth, which is what the colleges are looking for, right?

anorexic_abe

bump bump

anorexic_abe

oh, and a few honor orchestras for a few years.

anorexic_abe

why is that?
I know spanish and taught myself italian, so whats wrong with trying to learn another language?

anorexic_abe

wait, so does that mean you wont chance me?
haha

jamesford

Retake the SAT. If you can get 2100, your chances will go up. Don't bother retaking SAT Spanish. 730 is already good enough and getting a 770 will do little for your application. Consider taking chemistry or math instead of lit, you'll be more well rounded (you already have two humanity SAT II's).

USC, NYU, and Berkeley have decent business schools, not so much the other ones (idk about Chicago). Consider one of those.

anorexic_abe

no, I did not go to either of those schools.
I think going to any university would do my family proud, but I am more into my own joy, and I think NYU would do it.
Thanks for the post, but, I still havent gotten chanced, lol.
ahhhh, but I am so bad at mathhh. haha.

anorexic_abe

bump...please?

anorexic_abe

bump, until I get one more reply. I will pay you in backrubs.

Shrinkrap

Pepperdine can be pretty selective, regardless of grades. UCLA and Berkeley are also pretty tricky, and 1st gen seems to help ; minority/urm, not so much.

anorexic_abe

bump. Thanks for the replies, but I guess what I am trying to get at is this:
how accurate are my predictions of reaching and matching and safetying. haha

Shrinkrap

Sorry, not into that. And people who are, might avoid the landmine you get when you make a point of putting "minority" in the title of your thread.