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im a high school junior...female...minority- indian sub-continent...!
i am taking all honors classes and have an un-weighted GPA of a 3.7 and a weighted GPA of abt a 4.0
i am currently volunteering at creative clay,inc. and was a volunteer are the schools ESOL department for a yr as a tutor.
extra curricular activities:
key club(11,12; vice-president2003-2004)
national honor society
prom committee
linguistic: fluently speak hindi, sindhi, can read and write arabic, took 2 yrs of high school spanish
recipient for an award by the IOSC in 2001
plan to add more for next yr.

SAT: 1300
SAT II: Taking in December

other colleges i am considering are:
NYU
Cooper Union
Rutgers
Drexel
george washington
steven's inst. of technology
University of Miami

intended major: civil engineering

By Hitu (Hitu) on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 01:09 pm: Edit

no one has nething to say...!
sare my stats that bad?

By Godis (Godis) on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 01:58 pm: Edit

retake your sat. you aren't a minority. being paralingual is what you should emphasize on your application.

By Hitu (Hitu) on Sunday, November 23, 2003 - 11:57 pm: Edit

i am taking my ACT next month. do you think if i score a lot higher on that..it will help?

By Godis (Godis) on Monday, November 24, 2003 - 06:07 pm: Edit

of course.

By Mnm86 (Mnm86) on Tuesday, December 02, 2003 - 09:19 pm: Edit

she is a minority...just not a urm (underreprented minority) she could emphasize, however, her different cultural background. colleges both want to raise admit #'s for urm and create a diverse class. she definatly has a case for the latter.

By Godis (Godis) on Wednesday, December 03, 2003 - 06:31 pm: Edit

yes, but there are so many qualified south asian students that she won't have any advantage.

By Hitu (Hitu) on Thursday, December 04, 2003 - 04:05 pm: Edit

anyone else?

By Jamimom (Jamimom) on Friday, December 05, 2003 - 06:52 pm: Edit

Not enough info, Hitu. And you are taking your tests awfully early. Do bear in mind that you would probably do better as you mature and you are putting yourself in the position where you may be taking the exams too many times. Why would you be taking the SAT2s in the middle of the year? All the schools I know recommend the SAT1 in spring of junior year with the SAT2s and the end of the year. Unless you are being tutored in the subject or studying independently, it may not be to your advantage to do this.
You have an attractive set of academic interests particularly the Arabic language. And your list of schools looks good to me. Are you considering engineering? Female engineers are always wanted. But the math courses you take and math scores count heavily for engineering schools.
Talk to your counselor about the timing of your tests. I think you are starting a little too early. The few kids I personally know who did this did not do as well as those who waited.