<p>Ok my sister is going to be a senior at bucknell university
here are her stats </p>
<p>Major: English
Ethnicity: African American</p>
<p>G.P.A ~3.00 i think (hopefully she will bring this up)
3.7 in all her english classes
she did start out as a pre-med major until she switched
She studied spanish for some time and did kin of good in her science classes</p>
<p>4.0 in african american studies- this is her minor</p>
<p>Recommendations:
She will get an awesome recommendation from her english professor and many more </p>
<p>Essays:
She is a pretty good writer </p>
<p>Research areas/ Ecs
She is in the NAACP
Interned for the senator’s office
Worked at Red Lobster</p>
<p>Chance her for what programs? MA or PhD? What field? GRE (it seems required for all the science programs I look at, I assume it is for social sciences/humanities programs as well)?</p>
<p>Surely the red lobster employment may be left off of her applications.</p>
<p>I think her research aspect is a little low for these schools.</p>
<p>You did not give nearly enough information on your sister. Graduate school admissions are much different from undergrad admissions; they’re not based on the numbers/“stats”</p>
<p>I know that English is her major. What kind of programs is she planning on going into? Science writing? Comparative literature? English literature? Linguistics? There are a lot of things one can do with an English degree and her chances of admission are varied a lot based on that. English literature programs are extremely competitive; science writing, less so.</p>
<p>Your essays have a little do with being a good writer and have more to do with communicating your interests effectively. About 75% of the applicants to the kinds of programs English majors usually apply to are “pretty good” writers because in order to graduate from college with a BA in English you need to be a good writer. It really means nothing; what’s more important is that she finds schools that fit her research interests and professors that will work with those interests. No one on this board is going to know what the interests are at the schools you listed unless they go there.</p>
<p>Her extra-curriculars don’t matter. Working at Red Lobster and belonging to the NAACP don’t matter. Interning for the senator may matter depending on the kind of program she wants to enter. If she’s applying in international relations or something, maybe; if she’s doing straight English literature, it doesn’t mean anything.</p>
<p>In short, we don’t have nearly enough information to ‘chance’ your sister, and even if we had everything graduate admissions are so vastly different from undergrad that the ‘chance’ threads are even more useless here than they are on the undergrad boards.</p>