UVA and UNC have a mandate to take the majority of their classes from in-state students so a rejection is not surprising.
I detect a sense of entitlement and some prestige hunting from the OP. There are plenty of decent schools that will accept a student with those types of grades/scores (assuming that they are the correct ones). Identify your in-state public schools and maybe look for an LAC where you can leverage your ethnicity. Although the results of a DNA test doesn’t really count for anything and a college admissions officer might put the application in the circular file if you sent in a DNA test result report with your application.
Pacific Islander will count as a URM for certain LACs as well as underrepresented majors such as history, political science, and English/creative writing.
Re @Hamurtle – Thank you for the input – I really just thought TASP was a good bost and all – I am afraid I won’t get in anywhere that is why I am emitting some entitlement and prestige hunting – thank you however – wdym buy a circular file?
Re @Lindagaf – I get that. IMO though, better to try than not to try at all. I saw Harvard’s recent case study and it isn’t really that great, coming from an Asian Applicant – but then again, I now understand your point. Thank you very much for clarfication
I think that it would be worth putting in an application to Rutgers. Based solely on the people that I have worked with or studied with (in graduate school) who had graduated from there, I have been impressed.
I looked at the application deadlines for Rutgers, and saw that the “application due dates” have passed, but the web site clearly states: “The Fall 2019 application is still open!”
and also states: “These are not deadlines. You may apply after due dates have passed.”
I think that I would call them Monday morning, and try to get you application in by then if not sooner.
Also don’t think your counselor did you any favors with your list. You should consider some LACs with late deadlines that might be very interested in your heritage and will probably offer money. Dickinson is an excellent LAC which would probably offer you a lot of money and closes on 2/1. Gettysburg, Marist, Ithaca and Hobart & William Smith close on Feb 1. There’s a good list on College Simply of all kinds of colleges and unis with late deadlines.
Note to other students reading this:
Don’t think colleges aren’t fully aware of the popularity and ease of access to DNA tests. I’ve seen a bunch of threads with students claiming they are African American, Native American, or Hispanic because some tiny percentage of them is from one of those groups. Culture doesn’t come from a DNA test.
my Guam heritage is 87%. I am not pulling an Elizabeth Warren or finding a loop. I even called ancestry if it was allowed for me to identify as it on legal documents without repercussion.
I think changing the ethnicity after the app goes in probably would raise eyebrows at the college, regardless of how you came to have the information. It might not have been the best idea — it could reduce the impact even if it is a hook at a given college (and I agree it is, I know a family IRL with
one parent who was from the PI who had a kid attend a top school that did consider it a URM status — but not one on your list.).
TASP is a nice accomplishment, but I think your GC has done you a disservice. Too many reaches, not enough matches or safeties, esp given slightly soft grades and test scores for top schools. And not giving you good advice on LOCI’s, either.
Lots of schools that might have worked had 1/15 deadlines, too. I’m looking up options, but many deadlines are passed for schools I’d have suggested.
@Acortez122 Referring to comment #15. I wouldn’t really try to leverage your Pacific Islander thing. Although you may have DNA of a pacific islander, colleges may not be able to confirm this. For example, I am a full blooded Pacific Islander and I have registry with my island’s local tribe that I sent along with my college apps. If you simply want to use your 10% of DNA of being a pacific islander, colleges may sense something is up. Also, they will try to verify this change in race because I am assuming on all of your standardized testing you put down Asian. When they verify you, they WILL ask for some type of proof, which is usually in the form of tribal registry which I think you don’t have. This may the reason why your results aren’t lookin too good.
Thank you @intparent for the input and assistance. @GoBears2023 , for RD schools, I left the ethnicity portion blank. And I explained this in both emails and calls for RD schools. I also uploaded the results on the portal. If they accepted the change, will they still verify it?
Also, I do think that there is something sketch about this chance thread. Why is your SAT score lower than when you posted your previous chance thread? Why did you even take a DNA test in the first place? There is no way that you could’ve been 87% Guam without knowing it. I mean like Asian and pacific islander are pretty distinct. The pacific islands by definition are ones that were part of Polynesia. Examples include Guam, Samoa, Hawaii, Tahiti, Tonga, etc. I would be very cautious about your race. Unless you have some sort of tribal registry, this change of race may cost you everything.
Also, if you were Asian, how did you get into TASP. The program is for URM basically. Asian male is basically the complete opposite.
Op, this thread to me makes no sense. You are willing to wait sending a loci that should of been sent weeks /months ago because of a regional thing. Instead of looking into schools to realistically get into you talk about a DNA test. Don’t you think having the schools change your enthinicity on their applications would give a red flag?
Your gc should be fired for the advice you were given.
Check out Iowa, Iowa state, Michigan State and Beloit and Illinois Wesleyan.
You could also take a gap year or do community college. Maybe you’ll find out who /what you are during that time. Good Luck.
Agreed. However, the OP did himself no favors. Case in point:
In other words, the stats in his other threads were “hoping and praying.” And since he did not specify that they were what he hoped to achieved, he confused the users who are trying to help (and violated Terms of Service to boot by misrepresentation).
In another thread you described your EC as a “TASP equivalent”. Unless you know that colleges consider the activities equivalent I wouldn’t count on that being a huge boost.
I agree that you need to apply to more matches and safeties, but I don’t think I’d count on your DNA results to help you. College adcoms actually read the application materials. Did you mention your heritage somewhere (other than checking a box)? If not, I think its impact will be small. Find a few schools that are academic and financial safeties and hope for the best. Good luck.
Pacific Islander is really a Hail Mary here, isn’t it? It might swing a marginal application somewhere but it’s not something to hang an application on, regardless of the debate around DNA testing.
OP, I’m hoping you get a decent LOCI in in time to get into at least one of your deferrals, or that you get into one of your listed “safeties” that are actually matches, but at this point you should be thinking plan B, which might be a (proper) safety for a year and transferring out later, obviously assuming decent GPA etc. as others have said, your choices are really limited at this stage of the admissions cycle.
And I don’t really know what the procedure is but someone should be talking to the school about the bad advice from the guidance counselor, who has presumably done similar things with other students.
" If you simply want to use your 10% of DNA of being a pacific islander, colleges may sense something is up. " – In the above post, I mentioned its 87%. Do you mean in a hypothetical situation? Second of all, the RD schools do not see me “change” my race – they see an update of the ethnicity section that I intentionally left blank. Also, I do not quite understand why a college would not consider this considering that some of the colleges have already accepted the change with no resistance. In terms of heritage, I put down “Native or Other Pacific Islander” and put down Guam. Further, when I asked if I needed to send evidence, I did so by uploading results on the portal. I get that I should apply to more safeties, and I will, but I just do not grasp how this can even negatively impact me… A college just cannot “deny” my race. The fact is, I have that lineage and it is by far from being a minority number.