<p>OK, I looked at your recent Chances thread and together with the information from this thread will give you some of my thoughts, FWIW.</p>
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<li><p>Your grades look, while no spectacular, definitely competitive for selective schools. </p></li>
<li><p>Your schedule looks demanding, but that is relative to what your school offers, so if your GC will mark that you took the Most rigorous coursework, that would be helpful.</p></li>
<li><p>The most under represented Hispanics are MA, so that is in your favor.</p></li>
<li><p>While you don’t have results yet, your standardized testing appears to be low for selective schools. How much leeway adcoms might give you on test scores IMO depends on several factors, see this thread for some comments:</p></li>
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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/hispanic-students/931488-ivy-league-admissions-nhrps.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/hispanic-students/931488-ivy-league-admissions-nhrps.html</a></p>
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<li><p>Assuming that your family does not have savings to use for college and only a few thousand from current earnings, you need to be very careful about the college list that you construct. You need not only admissions safety, match and reach schools, but also financial ones. You need to be particularly careful about need based FA since your family income is likely to rise significantly in the year used to calculate your jr year (assuming your father gets a higher paying job starting in 2012), and could be close to reaching FA limits at most schools.</p></li>
<li><p>I would look at outside scholarships for Hispanic students, but be aware of the need factor. Also look for institutional merit scholarships for Hispanics where it looks like you would be in the tip top of the applicant pool. Have some selective need only schools, but be sure they are going to be affordable past fr year.</p></li>
<li><p>I would not advise applying ED to any school since you are in the position where you need to be able to compare FA offers.</p></li>
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