Chance me Please?

Colleges & Universities Bowdoin College
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<p>SAT I : not going to report
SAT II: not reporting either
Rank: 6/179
GPA: 92.46/100 Unweighted</p>

<p>Maine Resident
Asian</p>

<p>EC’s:
National Honors Society: 11th-12th grade, treasurer
Student Council: 9th and 12th grade, treasurer
Civil rights team 10th-12th grade
Class president: 10th grade
Knowledge Masters 9th-12th grade
Upward Bound 10th-12th grade</p>

<p>Cross Country skiing: 11th-12 grade ( most improved award 11th grade)
Cross Country Running: 9th-12th grade (most improved award in 12th grade)
Outdoor track: 10-12th grade</p>

<p>Volunteer
Nursing home: 200hrs
Peer Tutor: 240hrs
Translator: 450hrs</p>

<p>Work:
Host of a restaurant: 2500 hrs
College mail room: 100 hrs
Insurance: 100hrs</p>

<p>Took local college class: Current college GPA 4.0
Linear Algebra
Math for Business and Economics</p>

<p>Let Recs:
1st teacher: decent
2nd teacher: awesome
Guidance: decent
Other let rec: Okay, going to mail in 3 more</p>

<p>My Essays: Good, not that perfect</p>

<p>AP Credits:
Calc BC-5
Stats-4</p>

<p>Hook(s): First gen student</p>

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<p>First of all you sound very bright, however Bowdoin gets a lot of applications from Maine residents and I am not sure that first generation Asian is so unusual in the applicant pool. If you play at least one varsity sport there, it would help. That said, I think your academics are strong and that you would have an even better chance at other fine schools outside Maine, even without varsity sports.</p>

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<p>Not so fast – Bowdoin seeks and likes Maine students - if anything they get a preference. A first generation Asian from Maine is likely to be an attractive applicant . .</p>

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<p>which one should i listen to?</p>

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<p>Me of course. Bowdoin has a long history of favoring Maine applicants. From the [Bowdoin</a> Orient (student newspaper) in the past year](<a href=“http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-11-12&section=1&id=2]Bowdoin”>http://orient.bowdoin.edu/orient/article.php?date=2010-11-12&section=1&id=2):</p>

<p>“President Barry Mills said that the College gives preference to legacy applicants just as it does to students of diverse racial and geographic backgrounds in its efforts to shape a class. ‘Just like we put our finger on the scale for students from Maine, [and for] all different kinds of students in admissions, we put our finger on the scale for legacies,’ he said.”</p>

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<p>So is bowdoin a in for me?</p>