Chance @ Cornell, UCs, BC, Colgate?

light up the sky · 03-17-2009, 07:16 PM

Junior - Class of 2010
Asian
California

GPA - 3.68 UW / 3.86 W
(still have one semester left of junior year)
extenuating circumstance - parents were divorced + financial problems in 10-11 grade
** always taken Honors/AP whenever possible and project senior schedule is 5 aps + 3 other classes

SAT - 1980
- will retake, trying for 2200+

E.C. (counting plans to continue in senior year)
Speech + Debate Team - Secretary, Vice President (4 years)
Red Cross Club - Vice President (4 years)
Adopt-an-Alleyway Youth Empowerment Project - Social Chair (3 years)
Campaign Academy - Campaign Leader (3 years)
CSF Representative (3 years)
The Eagle School Newspaper - Reporter, Layout Editor, Co Editor-in-Chief (2 years)
Eagle News Broadcast - Reporter (2 years)
Fiona Ma Assemblywoman of CA - Intern (2 years)
Student Site Council - Vice Chair (2 years)
Junior Statesman of America Club - Historian (1 year)

PROGRAMS
- Northwestern University - CTD Civic Engagement & Leadership Institute (Summer)
- 3 year participant World Savvy Affairs Competition

JOBS
- The Sixth Graphics + Web Design Studio - owner (6 years)
- Natural Dental Lab - assistant manager (4 years)
- Help-U-Learn Tutorial - Tutor (4 years)

AWARDS
- 1st Place Voice of Democracy Speech Contest: Honoring Veterans of Foreign Wars
- 2nd Place Lion's Club Speech Contest: Water - Will CA be left high and dry?
- 2nd Place Lion's Club Speech Contest: Immigration - My Solution
- 3rd Place World Affairs Competition Best Discovery Poster
- 4th Place Best Speaker - CHSSA Student Congress

hook? URM, first generation college, started my own graphics/web design company to help out my family through high school

colleges looking at:
Boston College
Colgate
Cornell
Dartmouth
Duke University
Georgetown
Northwestern
Rice University
Tufts
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UCSD
USC
WashU

cnaut · 03-17-2009, 08:08 PM

Compare your chances at those schools with the links below:
myCollegeSTAT - Cornell University
myCollegeSTAT - University of California: Berkeley
myCollegeSTAT - Boston College
myCollegeSTAT - Colgate University

light up the sky · 03-18-2009, 10:08 PM

Thanks, its pretty helpful but everything is such a huge generalization!

light10491 · 03-19-2009, 12:07 AM

asian and URM? what kind of asian r u

cnaut · 03-19-2009, 12:46 AM

Your awards will help. I think that looking at individual student profiles at mycollegestat.com is helpful.

iambored10 · 03-19-2009, 10:49 AM

yeah your asian so you CANT be a URM.....
Being Asian+your low GPA+low SAT scores=>
Cornell-REACH
Dartmouth-REACH
Duke University-REACH
Georgetown-REACH
Northwestern-REACH
Rice University-REACH
Tufts-REACH
UC Berkeley-REACH

light up the sky · 03-20-2009, 12:16 AM

yeah, sorry not URM.
Do awards really help that much? I heard that they don't.

thanks iambored10.

light up the sky · 03-21-2009, 02:43 AM

anyone else? Sorry, I know this is annoying plus that I'm a junior.

but i have a some colleges I really want to go to, and there's some time left until college apps for me to either figure out what to do or prepare for disappointment

Indianjatt · 03-21-2009, 01:47 PM

Just be aware that the SATs are sometimes very hard to improve unless you have insame memory and have the self-motivation/determination to study a lot of vocabulary.

Xaari · 03-21-2009, 02:28 PM

I highly suggest that you bring up your GPA and SAT score. Also, you are planning to take some Subject Tests, right?

light up the sky · 03-28-2009, 12:32 AM

yep, I'm taking sat classes which requires a psat every week so hopefully that will prepare me for may/june sat

yeah, I'm taking bio, us history, and either world history or literature..
I heard the literature is really hard though, is it?