URMs Yale, Harvard, Georgetown Admissions?

Applying to College
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<p>Hi, im a minority student (Hispanic)</p>

<p>UW GPA: 3.8
SAT I: 2000
SAT II SPANISH: 800
SAT II US HISTORY: 700
SAT II BIOLOGY M: 600
SAT II ITALIAN (taking in October) : 650+ (expected)</p>

<p>IB SUBJECTS:</p>

<p>SPANISH A1 HL
ENGLISH A2 HL
ECONOMICS SL
BIOLOGY SL
MATH.METHODS SL
HISTORY HL</p>

<p>NATIONAL BACCALAUREATE</p>

<p>SOCIOLOGY
ITALIAN
COMPUTER SCIENCE</p>

<p>-First Generation to assist college
-Good EC’s (specially in leadership) ex: Class President
-Great REC’s</p>

<p>Do i have any chance of admission at Harvard, Yale, or Georgetown?</p>

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<p>Interesting stats, could you elaborate a little more on your extracurriculars? How many leadership positions?</p>

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<p>Elected Class President
Elected IB Delegate (position at my school)
Elected Sociology Secretary (position at my school)
Best 2006 Classmate (a useless price given at my school, hehe)
Member of the School Assembly
etc etc etc</p>

<p>300+ Community service…
Provides help in food campaigns for poor people across the country. Moreover, i organized with my class a campaign to get clothes to give to people who lost their belongings at a recent flood in my country.
etc etc</p>

<ul>
<li>the IB CAS course
etc etc</li>
</ul>

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<p>Varsity Gymnastics (4 years)</p>

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<p>Relatively good chances at HY, great shot at gtown</p>

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<p>Considering how you’re an URM, you have a great shot at every university except Harvard. Georgetown = Match. Yale = Slight Reach.</p>

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<p>lol how in the world are Harvard and Yale different in terms of admissions? I agree with mj.</p>

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<p>You have okay chances at the HY, but people overestimate the influence of URM status.</p>

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<p>yes , i agree that URM’s are overestimated, but since i can use it as an advantage, i will…</p>

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<p>You will probably get into every school. White people get into HYP with those stats, and you’re an URM. You’re statistics are also well above the average of most URMs who go to HYP. As long as you don’t write an essay about the pleasures of sticking pins into small furry animals you should get in everywhere. Just my 2 cents.</p>

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<p>Harvard/Yale/Princeton are a stretch. Same with a lot of west coast schools that already have huge amounts of hispanics to draw from. But they’re all definitely possible. Don’t let people trick you into overplaying URM status, especially because you haven’t demonstrated how it affects your identity at all through anything.</p>

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<p>^^^^^
He’s above the average for all URMS and he is class president. He is one of like 40 urms in the nation with his credentials and a class president if there are even that many with that combo. And on top of it all he is a first generation.</p>

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<p>haha wow laxchamp, you’re really underestimating minorities! it does help, yeah, but there are plennnty of qualified URMs! i agree w/ kyledavid</p>

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<p>“-First Generation to assist college”</p>

<p>From another thread by the OP:
"one of my brothers went to Harvard though, and my mother went to Georgetown… "</p>

<p>There are other inconsistencies too, one thread where he says he has 2400, 800, 800, 800 SATs.</p>

<p>■■■■■</p>

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<p>on 4/29 OP wrote</p>

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<p>when asked how bad Op responded:</p>

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<p>In addition, Op is an international student so unless s/he is from mexico, s/he would not be considered a URM,</p>