<p>I’ll look into that. My friend who got into Stanford EA this year was seriously considering Brown as well. </p>
<p>It has BS/MD program, I believe.</p>
<p>I’m not sure how set you are on becoming a doctor, but if you really want to study medicine I think you’d be a competitive applicant for Northwestern’s HPME 7 year MD program. Your significant research experience and volunteer time will really set you apart, and Northwestern has been consistently accepting more students to the program every year. I’m a pre-med student at NU and I applied ED but many times I wish I had done HPME because the competition among regular pre-med students is very intense. General science courses are curved to where only 10-15% of students get A’s, making it very difficult to maintain a high GPA. Through HPME you don’t have to take the MCAT and you only have to maintain ~3.2 science GPA to be guaranteed acceptance into the Feinberg medical school in Chicago, which is a great school. The program isn’t binding either, so you can apply to any other medical school you want. </p>
<p>If you’re not certain about pre-med, Northwestern is still a great school for other majors like chemistry, engineering, and math. 40% of the incoming class of 2018 was accepted through ED, so if you applied early I’m almost certain you’d get in because your stats are impressive. </p>
<p>Well, just to clarify. Most of this “research” experience isn’t true research experience at all. In fact, the year that I worked in the Yamanaka Lab, my post-doc supervisor wasn’t there for the majority of the time so I just followed the lab technicians and gained experience in culturing cells, PCR, blots, etc…</p>
<p>My experience in the Mucke lab was similar although I did understand what I was getting myself into a lot more (as in I understood the project I was contributing to).</p>
<p>Now I’m in the process of completing my third internship and I am shadowing under a post-doc who is involving me much more in the process and project than my previous mentors have. I pretty much know how to handle myself in a laboratory setting now that I’ve had 2 years prior experience, and I am spending a lot more time on understanding the projects I’m contributing to. </p>
<p>TL;DR most of my time as an intern was getting the feel of the labortory experience and setting rather than generating my own projects. My current internship, however, has me a lot more involved, and I may even have the chance to start my own project.</p>
<p>Also, can anybody add in chances for Brown and Columbia? I’m not really thinking about them seriously at all right now, but I’d like to see how I stack up with those schools.</p>
<p>You chances are as good as the ED acceptance rates. For Columbia RD it’s really low like around 6-7% but 19%
for ED.
<a href=“http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admission-statistics-class-2018/”>http://www.hernandezcollegeconsulting.com/ivy-league-admission-statistics-class-2018/</a></p>
<p>Stanford REA: High Reach
UCB: Great chances</p>
<p>All others are low reach to reach</p>
<p>Can I ask you how you were able to get those internships? Do you have connections with these people or labs? Just curious.</p>
<p>I don’t know that a rec from a 10th grade Spanish teacher is helpful given your interests</p>
<p>@20more just curious, for the schools that you classified as high/low reaches: would those be high-low reaches for just about everybody? Or is it that I really shouldn’t bother applying to some of these schools because my stats are just not good enough?</p>
<p>@suzy100 Yes, I have a connection through my mom’s friend for the first internship. For the subsequent internships I went and emailed all the lab PI’s whose labs I was interested in and got the internships myself.</p>
<p>@wayneandgarth XD which is why I sort of tacked it on at the end as an afterthought… Although, it could demonstrate to the ad-com’s that I have potential to add a positive aspect to a class environment…? hehe idk… I can proudly and confidently say that that 10th grade spanish class would have been 837164x more boring without me in it lol</p>
<p>If you wanna get into med school, you should definitely apply to Pomona. Their acceptance rate to med school is 90% and they don’t have a med school committee. A decent GPA is also not that hard to achieve at Pomona</p>
<p>lol who are you? i feel like i really should know you…</p>
<p>um your numbers are great. depends on how successfully you tie everything (ec’s) together into a comprehensive image of yourself. yeah don’t do stanford</p>
<p>Your extracurriculars are great! Unlike me, you have internships. If you’re able to get your SAT up to 2300s, make sure you do so! You have a good chance, you’re definitely a competitive applicant! UCB, JHU and basically all UCs will accept you easily. Northwestern is a good match for you as well as UPenn. I can’t give you an arbitrary estimate for Stanford because I don’t even know myself. Thanks for the chance though, I really appreciate it. #:-S </p>
<p>Hi! I think you’ve got a good shot at all of these schools, Stanford being the only real reach here. If Stanford is your dream school, don’t apply ED anywhere else, but I also wouldn’t recommend REA as it is generally for recruited athletes and the applicant pool is much more qualified than in regular. If you apply ED and are accepted, you MUST withdraw applications from everywhere else so you’d never find out if you were good enough for stanford.
Stanford- reach
UC Berkeley- low reach
Rice- match
Northwestern- low reach
Johns Hopkins- match
UPenn- low reach
Good luck and chance back? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1673832-will-chance-back-chance-me-for-cmc-barnard-bryn-mawr-columbia-stanford-cornell-umich-stern.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1673832-will-chance-back-chance-me-for-cmc-barnard-bryn-mawr-columbia-stanford-cornell-umich-stern.html#latest</a></p>
<p>I think you have a pretty decent chance. Stats are good, internships sound interesting, and there’s a definite focus in blackbelt. However, you still don’t stand out enough to be guaranteed acceptance.</p>
<p>I think Stanford would be a mid-reach.</p>
<p>“My other concern is that, if I use ED on a different school, and if I just happen to get into that school, and if find out later that I happen to get into Stanford as well, I will probably be upset…”</p>
<p>Then why are you even applying ED to another school if you know you also love Stanford? Like your advice to me, I think you should not apply ED to both schools and do RD. </p>
<p>@FuzzyPeaches22 I posted this along time ago XD, I’ve long since decided that Early Decision was not the thing for me… </p>
<p>@StandfordWOW Makes sense…I just try to chance back people who have chance threads!</p>