<p>Stats:
Gpa- 3.39uw, 3.45w
SAT(new): 1090 (550V, 540M, 520CR)
SATII- French 580, Math1-640, Bio-720
Rank: 54/365 about 14%
Full IB Diploma student, 13 IB classes, 12 honors, most rigorous available.
Black (somalian), male, lived in US for 10 yrs now.
State- virginia</p>
<p>AWards/achievement:
Honor Roll (9-11)
VA State Parks (Youth Conservation corps) Certificate of Appreciation
National Youth Leadership Forum (Medecine) full Scholarship, Certificate of Achievement
National Youth Leadership Conference, nominee, full Scholarship, attending spring 06</p>
<p>ECs
Activities Position Hrs/wk
American Redcross Club Secretary, publicist 11-12 2/15
French Honor Society member 10-12 2/21
Volunteer-Charity Store Staff member 11-12 50hrs
Varsity-Junior Math team member 9-12 1/36
Religious Studies- student 9-11 4/120
Track, Tennis player/member 9,11 >100hrs
CAS (Creative, Service, Action)hrs 11-12 >150hrs total
and other crap i dont feel like mentioning..</p>
<p>essays- readers had strong positive comments, so pretty good
recommendations- pretty solid</p>
<p>do you think i have any chance of getting accepted? thnx</p>
<p>Just note that you don't have to go to an elite school to attend a good medical school. In fact, most medical students did undergrad at state schools. There are many colleges with great programs that are less pressured and competitive. You would be in a good position at any top 50 school.</p>
<p>yea i know, jhu is just 1 of my three out of state choices. i just want to know the likelyhood i'll get accepted. last yr a friend of mine, with a lower sat and slightly higher gpa then mine (urm) got in from my skool, but she spoke like 3-4 languages and had a bi-lingual degree and had been in us for 5yrs, so i geuss thats wat did it. multi-hooks.</p>
<p>Huge reach? No. JHU is not a "reach", it decides if you match it.</p>
<p>You never know man, the adcoms are... well, amazing at understanding character and passion aside from stats. </p>
<p>Your GPA is fine; your SAT's aren't stellar but don't bog down on that. Contact your admissions representative, let them know your name, and just keep your hopes up. Good luck.</p>
<p>other possible hooks,
URM, immigrant (somalian)
escaped from civil war
10yrs in the Us
extremely low-income family-both parents are disabled thus unemployed
first generation to go to college, or even apply
fluency in 2 languages (somali/english, plus a third which i'm in the 5th level of(french), a 4th which i can only read (arabic).</p>
<p>peers, teachers, GC's, and people themselves put too much emphasis on test scores. </p>
<p>Are they important? Hell yes- they are definitely a chunk of the pie-bBut i've noticed many people (including those mentioned above and CC'ers) look at test scores and use that as a basis of acceptance or rejection. </p>
<p>I know my scores aren't stellar, and many did better than I did on tests, but I had a 33 on the ACT, 1460 on the SAT, and 2 790's on SAT2's and got deferred from cornell ED. I'm in the top 10 of my class as well. A friend of mine with like a 1530 got deferred with a class rank of about 30. Another kid was deferred w/ class rank of 7 and 1380. </p>
<p>The one girl who got in ED was ranked 80-something and had an SAT of like 1230. </p>
<p>What does this mean? It means the adcoms are professionals. They had reasons for deciding things in certain ways- and again, GPA and class rank, though very important, are only chunks of the pie. The reason 1400+ students get into top schools is not only because their scores are high, but because they are overall very qualified, however, if a school such as JHU notices that a 1000 or 1100 or 1200 SAT student is qualified, they will take him/her. Apply with confidence and show them you are JHU material. Don't listen to anyone who says your scores are too low.</p>
<p>i dont understand with the sheer volume of applications how adcoms can so thoroughly analyze you... i mean at cornell your application is looked at for under 20 minutes (how can they truly analyze you outside of stats in this amount of time) , </p>
<p>applying ED, being a URM, athlete, legacy (for ED) helps you tremendously and essentially takes up a pretty large chunk of the percent of acceptees, which makes it tough for us "normal" applicants.</p>
<p>stonecold23 - they do it at Hopkins, I have watched them do it for 2 years. They give up their lives for three months and all they do is read the files. Every file is looked at completely -- the adcoms at JHU take their jobs very seriously.</p>