HISPANIC YALE ED PROGRAM (my chances)

Colleges & Universities Yale University
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<p>Well, I want to apply to Yale’s E.D. program. During my junior year, I switched from my regular high school to the dual enrollment program in Miami Dade College. This program allows a student to take three high school courses during the morning instructed by high school teachers, on the college campus, and finish their +3 plus college classes of their choice in the afternoon. At the end of their senior year, the student should have enough credits to graduate with an A.A. degree that is transferable to only schools in Florida.</p>

<p>HISPANIC
Cuban - American from low income family (miami)
ATHLETIC (but has not professionally played a sport for high school)</p>

<p>SAT: 2100 (V:700, M:680, CW: 720)
SAT II: Spanish: 760, Bio M: 720, Bio E: 710, US History: 700, LIT: 710
GPA: 3.56 U 4.53 W (upward trend during junior year)
COLLEGE GPA: 4.0 U 5.0 W (5.0 HIGHEST)
TOP 5% (very small school)
HISPANIC SCHOLAR W/ DISTINCTION
(FEW CREDITS AWAY FROM A.A DEGREE)
GRADUATING W/ HONORS FROM COLLEGE</p>

<p>AP: (sophomore) BIO: 4 (junior) AP LIT: 5 HISTORY: 5 (SCHOOL ONLY OFFERS 3 AP’S A YR)
CURRENTLY TAKING: AP CALCULUS, AP LANGUAGE, AP GOV’T, ORGANIC CHEMISTRY + LAB, MICROBIOLOGY+LAB, and PHYSICS W/ CALCULUS </p>

<p>IN COLLEGE: (ALL HONORS CLASSES)

  • TOOK 2 SEMESTER SEQUENCE OF INORGANIC CHEMISTRY + LABORATORY
  • TOOK ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY I and II + LABS (and in high school)
  • TOOK PSYCHOLOGY, HUMAN GROWTH, MUSIC THEORY, SPEECH, LITERATURE, TRIGONOMETRY, ETC.
  • GERMAN I and II</p>

<p>CLUBS

  • PRES. German Club
  • VICE Pres. German Club
  • Honor Society
  • College Honor Society
  • FEA
  • PRES. Hispanic Leaders of Tommorow
  • MODEL UN
  • STUDENT GOV’T
  • LAW CLUB
  • PRES. SCIENCE CLUB
  • JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE
  • YOUNG WRITERS CLUB
  • CUBAN-AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR YOUNG STUDENTS</p>

<p>E.C’s</p>

<p>+210 hours tutoring high school students in science </p>

<p>+150 hours English Initiative Program for hispanic/low-income students who can not read (translating from Spanish to English)</p>

<ul>
<li>20 hours German Expansion program</li>
</ul>

<p>+110 hours tutoring children for FCAT (Standarized test in Florida that many children fail)</p>

<p>+20 hours Anatomy+Chemistry tutoring for college students</p>

<p>MAIN ACTOR FOR HISPANIC HERITAGE SHOW
LEAD DANCER FOR HISPANIC HERITAGE SHOW</p>

<p>AWARDS:
1st place - German Poetry Competition
2nd place - German Poetry Competition
4th place - German Grammar Competition
2nd place - German Art Competition
2nd place - Model UN </p>

<p>(INTERESTED IN PEDIATRICS + RECOMMENDATION FROM MY DOCTOR WHOSE BROTHER IS A DEAN AT BROWN)</p>

<p>FISHING FOR:
YALE, HARVARD, STANFORD, COLUMBIA, DARTMOUTH, BROWN</p>

<p>SAFETY:
UF, FSU, UM, FIU</p>

<p>Hopefully, by reading the list above, you should of came to the conclusion that my passion is PRE-MED but I’m really good in English and helping those around me get to a better place than where they are at, as you can tell by my E.Cs. (my community is 95% hispanic and most of them don’t even speak English and hardly do my parents)</p>

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<p>The dual enrollment sounds very impressive but be wary. Make sure that colleges allow you to apply as a freshman applicant, not for one of the coveted few transfer slots.</p>

<p>Your academics are a little weak but not too bad. A 3.6 doesn’t look good - does your high school have a tough reputation? Your SATs are good considering your URM status. </p>

<p>It’s hard to assess your personality and the quality of your essays from a bald list of ECs. Taken by themselves, they’re very good but unexceptional. You probably want to not mention half the clubs your in - you seem to have a slight case of Joiner Syndrome. </p>

<p>Numerically you have - perhaps a 30% chance, given that you’re a minority froma poor background. But your essays, interviews and general presentation will be the deciding factor.</p>

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<p>your GPA is the omst important.</p>

<p>you area going to compete with other well qualified minorities with a lot better stats…</p>

<p>I would actually reconsider your options, sorry. Not Yale, but maybe some place like Brown or Darthmouth.</p>

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<p>I recieved my new SAT scores:</p>

<p>V: 740 M: 700 CW: 760</p>

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<p>you do know that Yale is SCEA and not ED…right?</p>

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<p>has anyone else noticed how many hispanic male chances threads have popped up lately?</p>

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<p>yes, i wonder if they are a URM anymore?</p>

<p>hispanic doesnt help that much, though. both my friends applied yale scea and had 1500 sats and were both rejected. they told me they checked hispanic… too. im not sure if they had all grades or what, but they both were rejected</p>

<p>anyway.</p>

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<p>hispanics are actually the second least represented minority
(native americans= #1) so I don’t know what was wrong with ur friends amnesia but being hispanic does count for alot. As to your GPA, NSX, u really can’t tell by the number because so many schools have so many different ways of calculating it. I think you have a decent chance, not great, not bad (I do not do percentages, sorry). GL</p>

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<p>yeah, amnesia, your friends must’ve had ****ty grades or f’d up on the applications</p>

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<p>not to mention, i’ve seen a lot of your old threads, and you seem to be the strongest proponent of your heritage helping you get in…are you sure you’re not just trying to shut out the possibility of future “she got in cuz she’s a minority” stigma by now denouncing the urm advantage?</p>

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<p>for ppl wondering about his gpa, he writes:

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<p>proponent or not… I didn’t apply anywhere early… i was, but decided not to… I am waiting to see how much minority status really helps.</p>

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<p>NSX are you a first generation?</p>

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<p>NSX, I remember seeing Yale’s ethnic breakdown last year. The number of Puerto Ricans and Mexicans was much higher than that of “other” Hispanics. I don’t really think Yale places much emphasis on “other” Hispanics; they’re not even mentioned in the multicultural recruitment program (at least they weren’t last year).</p>

<p>Btw, I’m a Hispanic (Peruvian) male applicant from South Florida, too.</p>

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<p>about half the hispanic makeup at most colleges is mexican, about 45% is other (lilke south american or other caribbean), and a small portion is puerto rican…cresol…yes, some people speculate that, but south americans are hispanics nonetheless, so they count for the same statistical purposes…sounds cold but it’s true</p>

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<p>btw creso.red…at princeton it was just the opposite, if those stats you mention actually exist…i think it was 3.5% of the student body is mexican, 0.6% is puerto rican, and 3.1% is “other” hispanic</p>

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<p>Not all South Americans count as Hispanic. In Brazil, they are Latino but not Hispanic because they speak Portuguese, not Spanish. </p>

<p>Sorry, just wanted the throw that tidbit in there.</p>

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<p>ok, nonetheless, applicants of brazilian descent still get urm status…the application says “hispanic or other latino”…not that im brazilian…neway</p>

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<p>Ja, true. They will get URM status. I’m just one of those people who sticks to census definitions closely.</p>

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<p>From Sally Rubenstone (one of cc’s college counselors):
“Yes, I have seen Puerto Rican and Mexican applicants get preference in the admission process over applicants from other Hispanic backgrounds. Some admission folks will openly admit this; others won’t; and, at a number of colleges, it may not even be true. Certainly, your Hispanic background will work in your favor, especially because your application will show actual ties to your heritage, and Spanish is spoken at home. However, it’s impossible to quantify the amount of advantage you’ll get at each of your target schools or to list colleges where this advantage will be greater or more minimal.”</p>

<p>From Yale’s multicultural recruitment program:
“Through the Multicultural Recruitment Program established in 1972, Yale undergraduates participate in the efforts of the Admissions Office to attract
and enroll ethnic minority students. The MRP works with Asian-American, African-American, Mexican-American, Puerto Rican and Native American students.” (<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/asc/guidelines/mrp.html[/url]”>http://www.yale.edu/asc/guidelines/mrp.html&lt;/a&gt;)</p>

<p>Unless more than half of all hispanic applicants are Mexican, then urm benefits are obviously not equal. For example, at Princeton about 60% of hispanic students are Puerto Rican or Mexican (according to zackalacka87). </p>

<p>But really, there’s nothing we can do about it, and as urms, we should be more worried about being as competitive as non-urm students rather than comforming to the lower expectations of affirmative action.</p>