High School Senior Interested In Linguistics Stats

Chance Me / Match Me
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State

California (half Salvadoran)

Intended Major

Linguistics

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: (3.75)
  • Weighted HS GPA: (3.9)
  • Sat Score: 1410 (750 RW, 660 M)

HS APs

AP Lang (junior year), AP Spanish, AP Gov, AP Art

Awards

Honor Roll

Principal’s Honor Roll

Test of proficiency in Korean (level 2)

Student of the year in Spanish 3

Seal of Biliteracy Candidate

Extracurriculars
Theatre sophomore and junior year

Spanish language study since 9th, Advanced level, around b2-c1

Portuguese b1 (didn’t mention on app, not very important to me)

Korean language study since february 2025 (nearing b1)

Now Studying Swedish

Babysitting since 9th

Social Media Manager and Member for a club for breaking barriers between cultures since 11th

Creative Writing

Essays/LORs/Other
About Languages (connecting with my Grandma and friends who don’t speak english!)

Letter of rec from spanish teacher I’ve known three years.

Schools
Maybe U Mass Amherst?? Applying to UCs but very competitive, accepted in University of Minnesota!

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Congrats on UMN. If you can afford it, it’s wonderful.

I don’t know your highest math, science, social science, etc. but if you got into UMN, UMass can happen too.

Can you afford these two schools?

I’m looking at WUE and it lists Merced and you will certainly get in there. It’s higher rated by US News than other UCs.

And there are CSUs listed - are you applying to them?

How about Hawaii or Montana or New Mexico or Utah or Western Washington.

All will come at a discount thanks to WUE - if budget is an issue.

UMN is a great get even if you get nothing else. And they have an Institute of Linguistics.

Congrats and good luck.

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Look into Macalester.