<p>Chances at Georgetown (legacy, but rejected in high school), Columbia (wait listed in high school), Yale and Holy Cross</p>
<p>3.92 at a Freshman at top 25 School.
(15 credits, two of which were upper level French courses(300 and 400 level), 4 credit Calculus course, 2 credit seminar, 3 credit Astronomy)
(Next semester 3 4 credit courses (CalcII, Statistics, Intermediate MicroEconomics, 1 3 credit French)
Varsity Rower, very involved (about 20 hours a week) but would not be good enough to be recruited</p>
<p>3.5/3.99 High School GPA (weighted is low because of one year spent in France where all classes were unweighted).</p>
<p>Math 700
Reading 740
Writing 760</p>
<p>SATIIs
Math I-650
World History- 760
French- 780</p>
<p>Interested in transferring because the French department is atrocious at my current school.</p>
<p>I don’t know what that poster was talking about, but those are very impressive SAT Scores and the fact that you are Hispanic WILL make a difference.</p>
<p>No one can tell with Columbia or Yale, but I think you have a decent shot at both Georgetown and Holy Cross. Best of luck.</p>
<p>donjuan is wrong, being hispanic will give you a slight advantage so i would recommend stating that while applying. You know, i don’t really know what to tell you about your chances because i’m not on an admissions committee, but my advice to you is just apply to all the schools you wish to go to like you deserve to be in the school. Don’t let some naive poster (i’m not saying that everyone on this sight is naive, but it sure does have its fare share) dissuade you from applying to the top tier schools. My two cents is that transferring to top schools is easier your sophomore year, and many schools don’t even allow freshman to transfer (i’m pretty sure colombia follows this policy among others), so if you get rejected it may be because it may be too soon, don’t let this dishearten you, you are still a highly qualified applicant. Staying for another year could be beneficent by spending it building up ec’s and really setting yourself apart from the average applicant all the while familiarizing yourself with faculty for rec’s.</p>
<p>Affirmative action does work for any socioeconomic level. Like the case with michigan, many schools now chose applicants of minorities in order to give them clout in regards to having a diverse student body and not looking cronyistic and waspy.</p>
<p>Your assumption is so wrong, you dont even know it…thats why UMich now asks for applicants’ income right? I assume that is also why in the common application it asks “Will you be applying for financial aid?”</p>
<p>As far as financial aid goes, income does matter, but a hispanic and a caucasian with a +100,000 dollar income and similar stats will make the hispanic applicant look more appealing.</p>
<p>I wasnt talking about financial aid. I was talking about affirmative action at the socioeconomic level, which you claimed does not exist at UMich, and I just proved you wrong.</p>
<p>What i’m saying is that a hispanic will gain admission before a caucasian if they both are of the same socioeconomic level and have the same stats. (this isn’t taking into account legacy or any of the other application nuances) So therefore he should put down on his application that he is hispanic because it could end up being a deciding factor.</p>
<p>Right. However, thats not what you said in the first comment, which totally blew off my original one. You said that i was totally wrong in insinuating that he was at a disadvantage for having good resources. In essence, by having the good resources, being hispanic wont exactly help him as it would if he was poor.</p>
<p>That’s not entirely true either. If affirmative action was carried out as it was intended then, yes, you would be right. But colleges these days are fighting for a diverse student body, with income weighing in less heavily than it probably should. UM policy, directly copy/paste, “The university’s policy, which automatically distributes 20 points, or one-fifth of the points needed to guarantee admission, to every single ‘underrepresented minority’ applicant solely because of race.”</p>
<p>You just copied/pasted an obsolete policy (outdated by 7 years); it is no longer used in admissions for UMich. In addition, the point system is not used at top public and private schools in the nation.</p>
<p>I would like to see evidence of this not in use anymore. Even if it is, it still shows how UM is regarding minorities. That’s funny, i found it on the universities news page with the article including this updated less than two years ago.</p>