I’ll be a senior next year in high school, and my ultimate goal is to become a recipient of the Gates Millennium Scholarship. Based on my credentials below, would you say that my chances are great at getting this extremely prestigious scholarship?
1. Ethnicity : African American
2. Income : less than 40k
3. GPA : weighted = ~4.2, unweighted = N/A
4. Leadership Roles :
Tutor
Bank of America Student Leader
4-H Food & Fitness Ambassador
President – Essex County 4-H Teen Council
Teacher – Music Theory & Piano Program
Teacher – Afterschool Choir Class (at a nearby elementary school)
Teacher – Kindergarten Summer Camp Spanish Program
5. Employment :
Teacher – Music Theory & Piano Program
Bank of America Student Leader Intern
6. Community Service:
Tutor
Nursing Home volunteer
4-H
Kindergarten Summer Camp
Afterschool volunteer – Elementary School
7. Honors/Awards:
Congressional Award
Honor Roll/High Honor Roll
President’s Volunteer Service Award
National Honor Society
Prudential Spirit of Community Award
President’s Challenge Award Gold Medal
Aside from letting me know if I have a shot at getting this scholarship, it would be a bonus for one to inform me if I have a chance of getting into some of the top schools (i.e Cornell, Columbia, Harvard). Any tips or suggestions? Thanks!
Getting the scholarship with what you have listed will be easy as pie, being AA with a 4.2 is what will propel you, plus you show that you are active in the community and haver a life apart from school. The income will also be a beneficial factor in getting GMS. You should be ok with any ivy league school, if you can get into ivy league. you can get the GMS.
Hi,
If anyone can please check what I have done, that would be awesome, if someone can explain to me what is left unanswered, I’d really appreciate that too.
What I Need: I need all of the problems with answers checked. (62, 64. 66, 38, and 50)
I need help solving the problems with no answers.
62. Class rings: You want to purchase a class ring. The ring can be made from three different metals, six different designs, and twelve stones. How many different class rings are possible? 216 class rings are possible. I used the fundamental counting principal. 12*3*6=216 different rings.
64. Photography: A photographer lines up 15 members of a family in a single line in order to take a single photograph. How many different ways can the photographer arrange the family for the picture? The photographer can arrange the family in 225 different ways because he wants them in a single line for a single photograph. There are 15 family members, and 15^2= 225 different ways.
66. Music: The window of a music store has eight stands in a fixed position where instruments can be displayed. In how many ways can three identical guitars, two identical keyboards, and three identical violins be displayed? I used the fundamental counting principal, and got 18. 3*2*3=18 But I know that’s not right because the instruments are identical, it’s not like they’re different.
68. Technology: Extended Response: To keep computer files secure, many programs require the user to enter a password. The shortest allowable passwords are typically six characters long, and can contain both letters and digits.
a)Calculate: How many six character passwords are possible if characters can be repeated?
b)Calculate: How many six character passwords are possible if characters can’t be repeated?
c)Drawing Conclusions: Which type of password is more secure? Explain your answer?
70. Cross Country: There are three schools competing in a cross country race. School A has six runners. School B has five runners. School C has four runners. For scoring purposes, the race only considers the school of each runner. How many different finishing orders are there for the fifteen runners?
In exercises 38 and 39 decide whether the problem requires combinations or permutations to find the answer. Then solve the problem.
Newspaper: Your school has an editor in chief, and an assistant editor in chief. The staff of the newspaper has twelve students. In how many ways can students be chosen for these two positions? A combination is used to solve the problem. There are 66 ways that students can be chosen for the two positions.
Student Council: Five representatives from a senior class of 280 students can be chosen to represent student council. In how many ways can students be chosen to represent student council?
48. Music: You want to purchase three CDs from an online collection that contains the types of music shown below. You want each CD to contain a different type of music such that two CDs are different types of contemporary music, and one CD is a type of classical music. How many sets of music types can you choose?
Types of Music:
Contemporary:
Jazz
Country
Blues
Rap
Rock & Roll
Classical:
-Opera
-Concerts
-Symphony
50. Arcade Games: An arcade has 20 different arcade games. You want to play at least 14 of them. How many different combinations of arcade games can you play? 20nCr= 38,760. There are 38,760 combinations of arcade games you can play.
52.Extended Response: A group of fifteen high school students is volunteering at a local fire station. Of these students, five will be assigned to wash fire trucks, seven will be assigned to repaint the station’s interior, and three will be assigned to do maintenance on the station’s exterior.
a)Calculate: One way to count the number of possible job assignments is to find the number of permutations of 5W’s(for wash) 7R’s(for repainting) and three M’s(for maintenance. Use this method to write the number of possible job assignments first as an expression involving factorials, and then as a number.
b)Calculate: Another way to count the number of possible job assignments is to first choose the 5W’s, then the 7R’s, and then the three 3M’s. Use this method to write the number of possible job assignments first as an expression involving factorials, and then as a number.
c)Analyze: Compare your results from parts a and b, and explain why they make sense.
Thank you very much-
Isabel
62 ok
64 15! [any of 15 in 1st position, any of 14 in 2nd,...]
66 8! / 3!*2!*3! = 560 [to take care of identical objects]
50 ok
38 12P2 = 132 [chief in 12 ways, asst. in 11 ways ]
Im a High school Senior and Im going to school to become a Fitness Instructor. What should I be studying over the Summer, so that I can be ahead of the game when it comes time to go to college. Right now ive started studying The entire anatomy of the human body and all its functions on my own, and I plan on Studying ever type of training and excersice, But is there any thing else specifical that I should be Studying.
To be honest, you sound like you’re already ahead of the game. Don’t try to do too much now, you’ll just be bored in class when they’re covering stuff you already know.
Akech Arol Deng has not seen his wife and son since they were seized by Arab militias from their home in south Sudan 19 years ago.
His son, Deng, was just three years old at the time but Mr Arol is sure they are still alive, being used as slaves in the north.
"I miss them so much. I really hope that one day they come back," Mr Arol told the BBC News website mournfully in his home of Malualbai, just a few hours’ on horseback from the Bahr el-Arab river which divides Muslim northern Sudan from the Christian and Animist south.
It’s like I was still in the camp, it’s the same situation as in the north
Arek Anyiel Deng
Some 8,000 people are believed to be living in slavery in Sudan, 200 years after Britain banned the Atlantic slave trade and 153 years after it also tried to abolish slavery in Sudan.
But rows about money mean no-one is doing anything to free them.
In the same year that Mr Arol’s family was kidnapped, Arek Anyiel Deng, aged about 10, was seized from her home, not far from Malualbai.
Arab militias rode in to her village on horseback, firing their guns. When the adults fled, the children and cattle were rounded up and made to walk north for five days before they were divided between members of the raiding party.
Forced conversions
Ms Anyiel returned home under a government scheme last year.
"My abductor told me that I was his slave and I had to do all the work he told me to – fetching water and firewood, looking after animals and farming," she said.
"When I was 12, he said he wanted to sleep with me. I could not refuse because I was a slave, I had to do everything he wanted, or he could have killed me."
Such raids were a common feature of Sudan’s 21-year north-south war, which ended in 2005.
The northern government is widely believed to have armed the Arab militias in order to terrorise the southern population and distract rebel forces from attacking government targets.
According to a study by the Kenya-based Rift Valley Institute, some 11,000 young boys and girls were seized and taken across the internal border – many to the states of South Darfur and West Kordofan.
The boys generally looked after cattle, while the girls mostly did domestic chores before being "married", often as young as 12.
Most were forcibly converted to Islam, given Muslim names and told not to speak their mother tongue.
War of words
Sudan’s government has always rejected claims that people are living in slavery but admits that thousands were abducted during the war. It says this is an ancient tradition of hostage-taking by rival ethnic groups.
One senior government official strenuously denied there was any slavery in Sudan but bizarrely acknowledged: "It was the same as when people were taken from West Africa to America."
The United Nations defines slavery as: "The status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised."
Ms Anyiel and several others we spoke to certainly seemed to have been living in conditions of slavery – having been abducted, subjected to forced labour and often beaten.
To be able to work with the return programme the government set up in 1999 under intense international pressure, donors agreed to use the euphemism "abductee".
About 3,000 were taken back home before the programme ran out of money in 2005.
Donors pulled out, saying some were not genuine slaves, some had been returned against their will and had been left to fend for themselves in the desolate, under-developed south.
The government then funded the return for a while but strangely, the end of the war seems to have taken the urgency out of the project.
The governments in both north and the autonomous south seem more interested in spending their new oil wealth.
Officials from both administrations say they are still working out their new policy on the "abductee file".
Disillusioned
Ahmed Mufti from the government’s Committee for the Eradication of Abduction of Women and Children (CEAWC) says the Arab tribal leaders are now more than happy to release the "abductees" but his group does not have the $3m he estimates it would need to arrange transport and pay officials to organise the operation.
Faced with this lack of progress, James Aguer, the man at the forefront of the campaign to free Sudan’s slaves, is becoming increasingly disillusioned after spending some 20 years risking his life for the cause.
"With peace, I thought they would be freed by now," he says bitterly.
He says he has the names and location of 8,000 people, who could easily be freed from the Arab cattle camps, as soon as the political will is there.
He says the true number of those being forced to work against their will without pay in Sudan is more than 200,000, although most donors believe that is an exaggeration.
Sitting on the dusty ground outside the abandoned mud hut where she and her five children now live, Ms Anyiel is delighted to have finally gained her freedom and to be able to make decisions about her own life.
But freedom is not necessarily easy – she now has to support the children on her own, with no assistance from donors or the government.
Her only income comes from collecting firewood in the bush to sell in the local market.
"It’s like I was still in the camp, it’s the same situation as in the north," she complains.
Tribal markings
Ghada Kachachi, from United Nations’ children’s agency Unicef, uses Ms Anyiel’s case to explain why funding was stopped for CEAWC’s return programme.
She says those who are freed must be helped when they get back home – both economically and socially, as they move from an Arabic society to the Dinka community some left 20 years ago.
But campaigners say the first priority must be to free them from slavery and then sort out the details of their return.
Ms Kachachi also points out that it can be difficult to trace the parents of children abducted in a war zone up to 20 years ago.
Some have forgotten their real names and where they come from, although they can sometimes be identified by the marks cut into their faces as children – a part of Dinka traditions.
Save the Children UK is still helping foster parents look after some children several years after they returned "home".
While officials debate the best way to organise the return, Mr Arol and many others are just desperate to see their loved ones again.
He has gone to meet four different convoys of returned abductees in the hope of being reunited with his family, only to be disappointed each time.
"I always ask God, why other children come back but not mine. What have I done to deserve this?" he asks.
I just want to tell u that I visited many muslim countries.and I found nothing of those written in the article.
those things are related to tribal habits and not to islam.
for example,malysia and thailand and many arab countries have high population of muslim but the word salivary disappeared in those country.I have to tell u that I didn’t know what really happens in islamic countries till I visited them.
it’s totally differant from what we think.
and what happens in sudan is a real war due to weapons given to people who think only about fighting and posseccing lands and people.and I think u know who gave them those weapons and who wants a real war and fire in africa.if u don’t then read in the history and u will discover it.
and thanks for this deep question and article which gave me the chance to say those few words.
I am A freshmen in college and have just recoverd from an acl knee surgery. It has been ten months. I injured my self in my senior year of highschool playing soccer. This is how I tore my knee up. Anyways, before i injured my self i used to run five miles a day and was in excellent fitness condition weighing 145 pounds. Now my current wieght is 175. I am looking for any hints and tips on how to get back in shape, whether it be diet related or fitness. I would love all the input I can get. Thank you.
First, don’t just cut yourself off from food (sometimes people think the less they eat, the better off they are – wrong). Your body needs at least 1200 calories to avoid going into starvation mode and storing all calories as fat, rather than using them for energy. I propose you do the following:
Eat 1600-1800 calories/day.
Cut out sodas (diet and regular), and sweetened coffees and teas.
Eat at least 5 fruits and veggies every day, and eat as many colors as you can. The daily recommendation is actually 10 servings (it was changed in 2005).
Eat whole grains.
Cut foods with ingredients that read "enriched," "high fructose," "sugar," or "hydrgenated" in the first five ingredients on food labels.
Eat low fat meats.
Drink 2-3 cups of skim milk/day.
8-12 cups of water/day.
You could lose about 1-2 lb. per week doing this.
Also add in some weights. I REALLY started noticing the results when I did this. Make sure to do back and arms one day, legs and abs the next, back and arms, legs and abs, etc. – give your muscle groups 48 hours rest before working them again!
Try using the elliptical for 30-60 minutes 4-6 days a week. Make sure you are really sweating, not just taking a leisurely walk. The elliptical is easier on the knees than running. Ask your doctor to what level you are able to be active with your previous injury.
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