URM Accepted to MIT and Others, Chances to Others?

<p>Well, it’s less than a week til I hear back from all my major schools. Currently, MIT looks like the school I will be attending unless I get into Harvard, Yale, or Stanford (maybe others depending on Aid).</p>

<p>Major Acceptances/Rejections: Accepted to MIT and UT BHP. Waitlist: UVA. Rejection: ED Penn Wharton. Other Acceptances are further down like USC, NYU Stern, GW, ect. </p>

<p>Location: CT
Gender: M
Ethnicity: Hispanic</p>

<p>Intended Major: Finance/Economics</p>

<p>I’ll apply for Economics at Schools that don’t offer Business degrees.</p>

<p>GPA: UW: 3.81 Weighted 4.07 80% Courses Honors/AP (Business Classes are academic)
Class Rank: Top 10% (All they tell us), G.P.A’s are inflated so 7 out of the top 10 (assumed) only take academic courses or those with no rigor. Assume I’m roughly 15th.
Class Size: 275
ACT: 33 (M:36, S:35, E:31, R:28, W:30) Superscored: M:36 S:35 E:33 R28 W:32
SAT 2’s: M1:760 M2:780 Chem:660
AP: Stat 5</p>

<p>Semester Grades: AP Calc (A+), AP Physics (A), Hon English (A-), Hon Spanish(A-) (No AP offered), Business Law(A), Marketing 2(A), American Government (A)
G.P.A for Senior Year Currently: 4.26 W 3.9 UW</p>

<p>EC’s:
DECA, 2008-Present President 2010 Raised 1300$ in Fundraiser; reopened school store after 6 years
Spanish Honors Society, 2009-Present President 2010
Math League, 2008-Present Team Captain 2010
Student Government - Class Secretary 2010
Debate Club 2009-2010 (discontinued this year)
Senior Experience Design Team 2010
Football 2007, Co-Captain
Freshman/JV Basketball 2007-2009
Fresh/JV/Varsity Baseball 2008,2010 (Cut in 2009)
Summer Baseball “All-Stars” 2007-Present Captain 2007-Present
MLG Semi Profesional Halo 3 Player - Team Captain of Ranked Team (Top 40 in World) Jan2010-Oct2010
T.A 2008-Present
Math Tutor 2008-Present
Spanish Tutor 2010
400+ Community Sevice Hours Recorded</p>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>High Honor Roll 2007-Present
NHRP Scholar (National Hispanic Recognition Program)
National Merit Semi-Finalist
BIP Scientific Scholar Finalist (2008)
DECA 2-Time State Medalist in Finance…After applications, 1st Place in Buying in Merchandising (State competition)
Math League - State Champs in 2009, 2010. On 5 man “Varisty Team” all 3 years.
MVP Award Summer Baseball 2008
18U Silver Medalist in Baseball for CT Nutmeg Games (2009)</p>

<p>Essays: Good-Very Good
Rec’s: Excellent</p>

<p>Legacy to Yale (Grandparent), Princeton (Brother, guidance counselor said it counted), USC(uncle went there and was a professor)</p>

<p>Chance me with the ones with **. The other schools are the ones I have been accepted to in order to give you a good idea of what’s going on with my other schools.</p>

<p>Schools:
ED Penn- Wharton (Rejected)
*Cornell -Econ
*Harvard - Econ
*Yale - Econ
*Princeton - Econ
*Columbia - Econ
*Brown - Econ
*Dartmouth - Econ (told interviewer it wasnt my first choice when she asked tried to show honesty :confused: but i did show a lot of interest in the school. All other interviews went very well!)
*Stanford - Econ
*Georgetown - McDonough
GW - Accepted…Reject Honors 15k a year
NYU Stern - Accepted
MIT - Accepted
USC - Accepted
Texas -Accepted To BHP
UConn -Accepted to Honors Program 4k a year
Fordham -Accepted Full Tuition
*Notre Dame - Mendoza
*Duke - Trinity (Econ)
UVA - Waitlisted</p>

<p>Leave a link to your chance page. Thanks guys and girls.</p>

<p>Bump 10char</p>

<p>You’re not a legacy anywhere. In order to be a legacy your father or mother must have attended the college.</p>

<p>LOL, why are you making a chance thread now. You should be relaxing and enjoying.</p>