I am hoping to get some feedback. This is my first post on CC as we are gearing up for the last year of high school. How much does being an URM really help? Would you be able to provide some feedback based on my daughters stats? She is currently a junior.
GPA:4.5 weighted/ 3.98 unweighted
Hispanic
Sports: 4 years. OMG soccer, 2 years (counting the coming year) of varsity soccer
Other stuff: freshman class president, junior class president, senior class president, national honors society, physics club, girls state nominee, rotary student of the Month, does amazing art and placed 3rd in a juried art competition with adults at the age of 14. Has an art supplement and blog showcasing her work
ACT: 29 (first try without studying…taking again in June. She thinks she can get a 31)
AP scores: Chem (3 taken as a Sophmore) world history (4 taken as a Sophmore), AP calculus (4), AP Physics (3), APUSH (4) AP Bio (4). Will be taking These classes as a senior: AP Econ, AP English lit, comparative politics, AP government, AP Anatomy
Class Rank: 4/350
Hooks: URM, interesting story to tell (she is adopted in an open adoption), art supplement to show creative side (in progress)
She has also done charity work on her own including raising funds to bring 150 pounds of nutritional supplies to Hondurus and painting a mural in town to bring awareness to the aids epidemic, although she doesn’t really plan on bringing it up since there isn’t a good way to bring light to it without it sounding self-serving and/or inappropriate.
Does she have a chance?
The other schools she is considering are
Scripps, Oxy, CMC, UCLA, Cal-Poly, Pomona, Pitzer