How much does this boost chances at Amherst?

Datkid
Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:40:43 +0000

My family is low income, how much would this boost my chances at Amherst? 21,000/year between both of my parents to be exact… I mean how will the Amherst people know I’m low income? I don’t want to talk about it in my essays or anything…

The rest of my stats are:

9th Grade:

English Honors - A
History Honors - A
Geometry - B+
Biology - A
Latin I - A
Gym - A
Band - A

GPA: 4.07

10th Grade:

English Honors - B+
History Honors - A
Algebra 2 - B
Earth Science - A
Latin 2 - B
Gym - A
Grafx Img. Tech I - A

GPA: 3.79 (I didn’t take 10th grade seriously)

11th Grade:

English Honors - A
AP US History - A
Trigonoetry - B
Pre-cal - A
Chemistry - A
Latin 3 - B+
Grafx Img. Tech II - A (2 credit class, so it counts as 2 A’s on the GPA)

GPA: 4.00

12th Grade Schedule:

AP Literature
AP US Gov’t
AP Calculus AB
AP Comp. Sci. A
AP Latin Vergil
Physics Honors
African American and Peace Studies

TOTAL WEIGHTED GPA: 3.93
Class Rank: 33/598

SAT I: 730 Verbal, 650 Math, 620 Writing (will retake in November)
SAT II: 720 US History… still have to take one more in October

Other info: well… it appears that the average 11th grader at my school only takes 1 AP class (US History) but quite a few took 2 because they could take AP Biology as well… I messed up 10th grade year and took Earth Science instead of Chemistry, so I didn’t really have the option to take AP Bio. Some even took 3 because they were super accelerated math and could fit in AP Calculus in junior year. And then the top 1-5 kids likely had 4 APs because they had an AP language junior year. But basically one AP is the norm for most college bound kids junior year. Also, I’m Asian and in Virginia.

ECs:
Varsity Hockey: 10-12, maybe asst. capt. in 12

Rec. Roller Hockey: 9 -12

CyberSeniors (community service thing where you teach elderly people how to use the computer): 10-12, President 11-12, 150+ hrs. of comm. service

Latin Club: 10-12

National Honor Society: 11-12

Summer internship at a jewelery store this summer

Who’s Who, National Honor Roll, National Society of High School Scholars…

Chances.