<p>@Medwell,
I don’t think I am better than anyone else on this forum, but I do think I have the right to call myself a high achieving minority. I am hispanic, which most colleges strongly seek, and I have a 3.75GPA at my prep school on full scholarship, where the average GPA for the 14 students we sent to Harvard was a 3.6. My SAT score was a 2360 and ACT was a 35. The reason I wanted to include my ethnicity and my stats was because as a low income minority, with exceptional scores and stats, I can count on my education to be alomst 100% paid for. If I get into Harvard, I would meet their criteria for 100% free education. </p>
<p>Now knowing that my parents can’t pay for graduate school, unlike many of my classmates, whose families can afford the $47,000 a year tution at my prep school, I might consider going undergrad Wharton, or Econ at Harvard, Yale, etc. as opposed to maybe going the Liberal Arts route or the Engineering route as an undergrad.</p>