Can I be a Midd Kid?

EmpressLeo
Fri, 17 Aug 2007 22:06:20 +0000

I’m interested in attending Middlebury as well but the only problem is that I don’t have all these godly records that most kids do and I’ve never taken the SAT or ACT. I graduated high school with a 2.8, didn’t do sports and the only club I was involved in was the anime club and the only thing we did was watch anime, I wasn’t an officer or anything. I had attended the Art Institute of Las Vegas and of California-Los Angeles totaling I think to about a little over a year of schooling there. I found that going into that field isn’t what I wanted so I left. Later, I went to West Los Angeles which is a community college for Japanese I and went to Santa Monica College for Japanese II (the former wasn’t offering it). I passed both classes with A’s due in large part to teaching myself Japanese for a while before attending. Since taking language classes, I have a new calling and loved my classes. Currently, I’m scheduled to take GE classes at WLA hoping to transfer to a school with a good language program. I guess I just really want to know how I can make my app look appealing to Midd. I suppose good grades won’t be enough? I could do extra curricular things but I also work full time and I CANNOT afford to drop to part time nor can I afford to save money for school. I try but life ALWAYS throws me curve balls causing me to either spend my money or be hungry and homeless. I’m a low income black female in Los Angeles looking for a better life. ANY advice would be great.

P.S.: Another school I’m interested in is Rice. Also, I’ve never visited either campus.