<p>So I was accepted to NYU Stern ED, and I am happy and everything, but theres a little voice in the back of my head that keeps telling me that I should have applied RD, and see what else would have happened. This is chiefly because I am first gen. and a URM, and I just discovered just how much weight that had. That being said, can you chance me for what was at the top of my list of colleges? [In case something huge happens, and I end up needing to transfer, or, who knows, theres always grad school!] Sorry this is so lengthy
Harvard
Stanford
Cornell
Princeton
UPenn Wharton
NYU Stern [if I was to apply RD]
Columbia
Georgetown [mendoza]
USC [Marshall]
UCLA
Berkeley
any other recommended reaches? haha.</p>
<p>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</p>
<p>self taught trigonometry [the whole course]</p>
<p>Senior Schedule
AP Calculus AB
AP English
AP Gov/Econ
AP Biology
german 3-4
chamber orchestra
film analysis</p>
<p>GPA UW 3.75 W 4.0</p>
<p>So obvious upward grade trend.</p>
<p>AP ART History-3
AP US History-3
Actual Test Scores
SAT Reasoning 1230/1900 [1940 Superscore]
SAT Subject Tests-
US HISTORY-630
Spanish-730</p>
<p>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.
NCCJ Building Bridges camp seminar thing- Attended camp that basically was about racial issues, etc. Should I even include this?
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. Oddly enough, its a big deal at my school, and theres about 70 kids selected from the about 500 applicants.
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.
Junior Honor Guard <– pretty big deal in my school, highly selective</p>
<p>Really good letters of rec from the President and CEO of the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra, and one from my high school counselor. Really good ones from teachers as well.
My essays turned out really good.
SoCal Resident
Mexican Male
Low income
first in family to go to university
Schools was alright. It had a magnet program where basically the 175 kids that were in it were considered a shoe in for 4 year universities. About 400 kidsin total went to a university with prob. 100 going to top ranked schools (UC’s and above). There are about 1300, yes 1300 in the graduating class. Sends a few grads to top schools
[1 to harvard, 2 to yale, 2 to stanford, 1 to mit, 1 to UPenn, 2 to U of Chicago, I think 1 to Columbia, 1 to Cornell ]</p>