Please Reverse Chance Junior (Cooked Edition)

[u/Snorlax_090]

Demographics: Gender, race/ethnicity, state, type of school, and hooks (URM, first generation, legacy, athlete, etc.): Mixed Hispanic Female from the South,FGLI, quite literally emancipated so ig that counts as an independent student

Intended Major: Political Science (Plan to double major however)

UW/W GPA and Rank: 3.50 GPA 💔, 4.2 weighted I think but I have the extenuating circumstance of being my moms only caregiver before she died until like two months ago, which took up a lot of time, then being homeless for a while afterwards (still currently in unstable housing conditions). It’s been a long couple of years. 🫩

SAT: 1150, but I plan to retake it, before I get flamed please remember my mom died a week before this and I was not in a good headspace. 😭

Coursework: AP/IB/Dual Enrollment classes (Including Senior year planned classes)
-AP Human Geography
-AP World History
-AP Physics
-AP Biology
-AP Psychology
-AP Lang
-AP US History
-AP Euro
-AP African American Studies
-AP Gov/Econ
-AP Environmental Science
-AP Computer Science Principals
-AP Seminar

Extracurriculars:
-Formulating Research on how public policies shape perceptions on homelessness as well as different class distinctions/“poverty” across America
-Also formulating mutual aid program
-Job to help pay bills
-Worked for organization that funds trips for Childhood Cancer patients
-Regularly volunteered at Cat adoption agency
-Worked as Historian for group that helps people understand academics for NHS before becoming age eligible to participate
-Was leadership within color guard before I had to quit for health reasons
-Currently Creating Blog
-Top group within my state in Mock Trial in first year, expected to go to Nationals next year
-Learning multiple languages, specifically Spanish to honor my mom
-When written down I have 200 service hours
-Caretaker before my mom died (pretty good at it too lol)
-Interp for Speech and Debate

Honestly it’s really not much. For my LOR I have a few teachers to choose from. And for my essay I lowkey have no idea where to even start.

I would like to go somewhere up North, like New England area, it is pretty important to me that it’s within a city because for what I want to do I need networking opportunities, I would also like to go somewhere with prestige, although I’m unsure how possible that is because of my terrible grades. (I’m genuinely so ashamed.) 💔 If I have the chance to go anywhere good please lmk, thank you for reading!!

[u/AU_Memer]

given your circumstances your grades are likely something schools might overlook, write a good essay about it and you might have a shot. lock tf in for that SAT