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<li>1360 SAT</li>
<li>3.69 GPA with decent class load</li>
<li>Native American</li>
<li>Only extracirricular is NHS, and I’m not even sure if I should include itconsidering it’ll be the only one that they’ll see on my application.</li>
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<p>Planning on applying to:</p>
<p>Western Washington University (match)
University of Washing (match)
Washing State University (safety?)
Whitman (big reach)
Reed (super reach)</p>
<p>Are Whitman and Reed even worth spending the time applying to? Only reason I even have those in mind is because my parents were getting on my case about not at least trying for something beyond the public state schools.</p>
<p>Any suggestions for some realistic schools would be great.</p>
<p>I can’t say much about the schools specifically, since I’m from NE. However, in general, you’re treading on some rather dangerous territory. Is there any activity that you’re committed to? It doesn’t have to be sports or music or any sort of organized group–you can have a job or have a special gift. </p>
<p>However, I would advise against getting a new hobby now. It will look even worse than not having anything. Put NHS on the application–it’s definitely worth something. </p>
<p>To my knowledge, being Native-American pretty much cancels out not having ECs. Make sure you really play up your heritage in your application essays though! Colleges really like to see essays about struggling with heritage or culture. Reed, in particular, bases a great deal of their admissions process on essays, so I would spend a rdecent amount of time writing and proof-reading my essay if applying there.</p>
<p>Western Washington University - In
University of Washington - In (You’re instate, right? If you aren’t, you still probably are in because your SAT hits their automatic admission line.)
Washington State University - In
Whitman - Match
Reed - Reachy-Match</p>
<p>Not really much I can put down on an application. Organized sports weren’t my thing, and my school was too small to have much as far as clubs go. Apparently my laziness has finally caught up to me.</p>
<p>I guess I should probably stick to my first three and leave it at that.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would write my essay on struggling with my native american identity or something. I would have written my essays on struggling with my asian-american identity (since I’m half white half chinese), but since I did foreign exchange, I wrote about that instead.</p>
<p>Good luck on all of your applications. I think you’ll get into all of them if your essays are good enough! :)</p>
<p>I agree with dreamkissed. Write about your Native American identity and you’re in. I wrote about how i’m a vietnamese immigrant, but no way that’s as effective as struggling with being native american etc etc. I think you’re a URM, also, so you’re in at all of them.</p>