Chance a URM/First generation college student

<p>I am applying through the Questbridge Program and will be completely ecstatic if I get into any of these universities.</p>

<p>NU
UChicago
Columbia
Yale
Stanford</p>

<p>GPA (weighted): 4.6
GPA (unweighted): 3.8
Rank : 7 out of ~700
ACT : 34 english, 34 math, 32 reading, 30 science, 8 writing, 32 composite
AP: Euro History 5, English lang 5, APUSH 4, will take 6 more by the end of this year</p>

<p>EC:

  • Math Team
  • Freshman Mentor
  • NHS
  • Alot of my time is spent handling my family’s affairs as I am the only English speaker, I made sure to show this is my essays</p>

<p>Work Experience:

  • Assistant and interpreter at a Bankruptcy and foreclosure Law firm
  • Worked in valet parking</p>

<p>Awards:

  • State Honors in National French Exam
  • Questbridge Finalist</p>

<p>Recommendations:

  • Teacher 1: Great
  • Teacher 2: Same
  • Counselor: Terrific as well</p>

<p>Essays:

  • I thought they were all average to good. My UChicago essays were definitely great since I spent the most time on it.</p>

<p>Miscellaneous:

  • Major - Economics
  • Go to an underachieving, heavily underfunded school just outside chicago
  • Family makes under 60k but soon to be much less
  • Parents never finished High School
  • Ethnicity: Hispanic
  • fluent in spanish
  • grew up in south america (moved to US when I was 8)
  • first generation college student</p>

<p>Thank you I appreciate it!</p>