Is it illegal to say you're Native American on your application?

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>White Male
GPA: 3.1
Exclusive New England Boarding School (400 Kids)</p>

<p>Sophmore Classes:
English
Religion
Geometry
Physics
German III</p>

<p>Junior Year:
English B
AP US History B
Bio A-
Chem A-
German IV B-
Algebra II B+
AP Government A</p>

<p>Senior Year:
AP Euro A-
AP Composition B
AP German V B+
AP Psych A
AP Human Geography B-</p>

<p>SAT
CR: 800 M:650 W: 780 Total 2230</p>

<p>SAT II
German 800
US History 780
Euro 760
AP Scores:</p>

<p>US History: 5
Government and Politics: 5
Expecting all 4’s or 5’s on everything else</p>

<p>EC’s
Soccer (9,10)
Squash (10)
Baseball (9-12)
Cricket (11)
Fall Play (11,12)
One Act (Director, 10,11,12)
Violin (Violin I and II)
Viola (Principal Violist)
Radio Show host
Head Acolyte
Dorm Prefect
Student Council
History Award (named after some dead guy)
Music Award (again named after some dead guy)</p>

<p>Colleges:
Boston College
Columbia
Pitt (Legacy)
University of Michigan
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Vanderbilt
University of Chicago
Duke
UVa
Notre Dame</p>

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<p>Your 3.1 GPA is on the low side for many of those colleges.
Your extracurricular activities show sports participation, but are you particularly good at any one of them?</p>

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<p>depending on just how exclusive that boarding school of yours is…</p>

<p>Boston College- in
Columbia- low/mid reach
Pitt (Legacy)- in
University of Michigan- in
UC Berkeley- high match/low reach
UCLA- mid/high match
Vanderbilt- in
University of Chicago- low reach
Duke- high match
UVa- match
Notre Dame- in</p>

<p>and with regards to what the former post said:
again I don’t know where you go, but don’t stress out about the GPA. colleges will know the relative grading procedures of your school (hopefully) and take that into account when looking at your transcript. It’s quite obvious from your standardized testing that your 3.1 isn’t the same as a 3.1 at some other public school</p>

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<p>LOL.</p>

<p>I love your thread title.</p>

<p>“In” for all of your schools so relax.</p>

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<p>JV Soccer
Intramural Squash
Varsity Baseball
Varsity Cricket</p>

<p>p.s. i was the lead twice in the fall play</p>

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<p>If the original poster indicates the presence (or lack) of class rank, then it will place his GPA in context.</p>

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<p>Keep in mind that colleges will (or at least <em>ought</em> to) look at GPA as one with rank. A-card was explaning to me how if you have soemthing like a 3.2 GPA, but go to some really hard-to-get-in-to school, where the highest GPA is 3.21, then you’re set. What’s your rank?</p>

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<p>Berkeley’s a slight reach to reach. You’re OOS and your GPA is a bit low; I doubt even NA can make up for that.</p>

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<p>Your Naive American.</p>

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<p>Ru kidding…im sorry op but your not a competitive applicant for any of the schools you listed.</p>

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<p>Well there are no official rankings but i’m around 7 or 8th in my class.</p>

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<p>Bump Bump Bump Bump</p>

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<p>7th or 8th in your class out of…about 100?</p>

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<p>There are about 70(ish) kids in my class!</p>

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<p>Ah. Well that means you’re pretty close to the top 10% of your class, if not in the top 10%. Colleges will take your gpa into account in context, so don’t let these 200.0 gpas scare you! :-p</p>

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<p>Wait are you kidding? i’m instate for Pitt and my father went there. Plus, i’m in the top 10 percent.</p>

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<p>Rejected at all top Tier schools. Your GPA is revolting.</p>

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<p>ugh.
10char.</p>

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<p>high HIIGGHHH reach for UCLA… ur an OOS and ur GPA is really low… wait a sec, are you even considered UC eligible with that GPA???</p>

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<p>^^ now that I think of it, if that 3.1 is the UC GPA, then the OP isn’t eligible for UCs; the cutoff for OOSers is a 3.4.</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/scholarship_reqs.html[/url]”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/freshman/scholarship_reqs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Unless, of course, the OP somehow gets admission by exception.</p>

<p>[University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/exception.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/paths_to_adm/exception.html)</p>