From now until April 2022, you are a black male. Don't even mention being white at all, T10's will be bowing down to you. You think I am joking, but this is truly for your own good.
https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283
Are you sure tho? This article: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/opinion/sunday/a-confession-of-liberal-intolerance.html?comments&referer=https://www.bing.com/search?q=confession%20of%20liberal%20intolerance&input=1&form=SBCLIK&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US made me worried. It's pretty long but it basically says that colleges prefer left leaning professors and wouldn't hire them if they knew they were conservative or evangelical. So if they do that to professors, wouldn't that do that to students?
alright.
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now please leave me the fuck alone.
You definitely have great extracurriculars and so you have good stuff to work with going to the admissions process. There are some schools that offer aid to international students, a list of those can be found here: https://www.notion.so/8c693ccfc93d41d5a584d4ab0f5365aa?v=5096df3d9a4846a5b633b4f83215a322
Gpa on slightly lower side although ECs are decent. You are not submitting a test which hurts a lot. A recent report by the University of Georgia shows that 71% of people who were admitted had submitted standardized testing(SAT/ACT). If you already applied then it seems that you did ED but I do not think you will get in unfortunately.
I had a similar situation with the sat in july/august. I signed up for over 10 testing centers but I live in new york so they were all closed. I then signed up for one 100 miles away in Manchester, Ct. I had to stay in a hotel the night before. In the end it was 100% worth it because I got a 1580. What I learned from that is that the best way to get a testing center that wont cancel is to do it in a rural area and to do it at a private/catholic school. Those tend to be less likely to close from my experience(did mine at a catholic school). If you can get a strong SAT/ACT score by the time regular admission comes around then you should have a decent chance at other good schools like UVA/UMich with your grades.
What I would do RIGHT NOW if I were you:
Find Testing center for December.
Check college board website constantly and change testing center if current one is
canceled
STUDY YOUR F****** A** off for that SAT/ACT. A great website to use(and what I
personally used to get my materials) for free tests and entire review books is
If you can get your self a 1550+ on the sat then I would say you would have a fair shot for a cornell or a Mich/UVA in the regular admission round. To be honest I do not think your chances at penn would make it worth applying. Do research and find a place that more fits your gpa and test scores you think you could get.
Also, what were your first quarter senior year grades? Those can help to mitigate bad junior year grades if you show a rebound.
Feel free to DM me if you have any further questions.
You'll need Python 3.6 from Anaconda (https://www.anaconda.com/download/#macos)
Test by running python
in the Mac terminal and confirming that it says Anaconda when it executes (you can exit the interpreter using exit()
)
Next you'll need Tensorflow (run pip install https://storage.googleapis.com/tensorflow/mac/cpu/tensorflow-1.3.0-py3-none-any.whl
in the Mac Terminal)
Then you'll need a dataset--in Excel, column 1 GPA, column 2 test score, column 3 outcome (1 for accepted, 0 for rejected), save as --> pick CSV format from drop down.
Next, put the entire github repo on your Desktop and make sure it's named ChanceyNN. Put the dataset under ChanceyNN/neuralnet/corpus/ as college_name.csv and in terminal execute the following: ``` cd ~/Desktop/ChanceyNN
python neuralnet/main.py neuralnet/corpus/college_name.csv neuralnet/corpus/college_name.csv <PUT YOUR MAX GPA HERE, e.g. 5.0 for most weighted schools> <PUT THE MAX SCORE FOR THE TEST SCORES IN YOUR DATASET HERE, e.g. 2400 for sat> ```
A prompt will come up in terminal asking you how many steps. Type "150000" and hit enter. Your computer will heat up a good deal, so I recommend leaving it on its side. It'll take a long time on a Mac, probably around 10 minutes.
Then, it'll ask you to input GPA, SAT. Put those in and get chanced! It'll also print out an accuracy which, if you put in good data, should be good. It'll print out predictions for 0.0 gpa/0sat and max gpa/max sat so you can confirm that it works correctly.
If anything gives you trouble let me know. Alternatively, just send me the dataset CSV file and your gpa+testscore and the max gpa/testscore and I'll run it for you.
Its called 'Simulated: When we came ~~so~~ too far'
here's the amazon link
I recommend On Writing the College Application Essay by Harry Bauld. This book really helped me write when I went through the process. It's short, witty, and easy to flip through when you need to reference something in it. Good luck on your college apps!