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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I am a junior looking for accelerated medical schools or lower ivies (ie. columbia, brown, etc.)</p>

<p>Eth: Korean (2nd gen)
Sex: Male
location: socal
school type: small public high school in rich neighborhood, 30% asian, 69% white haha
family: mother ucsd, father college grad in korea</p>

<p>Class of 2011
GPA 9th-12th (unweighted): 3.9 ish
GPA 9th- 12th (weighted): 4.7 ish</p>

<p>Class Rank:
not reported for our school
class size: ~750</p>

<p>APs:</p>

<p>taken:
Euro hist (5)
Psychology (5)</p>

<p>taking right now:
Calc AB
Bio
Art Hist
Spanish Lang
Chem</p>

<p>taking senior year:
Government
Calc BC
Comp Sci
English Lit
Physics B (please tell me if i should take physics c instead)
Spanish Lit</p>

<p>probably AP scholar</p>

<p>comm college courses:
junior year: intro to sociology (A)
senior year: film appreciation (A projected)</p>

<p>SATII's:
havent taken any yet
Chem
Math ii
Korean
750+ projected</p>

<p>SATI: CR: 730 Writing:780 Math: 740
SAT total: 2250
taking it march 2010 to get hopefully 2300+ by improving math score</p>

<p>ACT: none</p>

<p>Rec choices:
Calc AB teacher
Eng Lit and Eng 2h teacher (same person)
pharmacist (see below)
hospital volunteering director (see below)
science research teacher/sponsor (see below)</p>

<p>EC:</p>

<p>600 hours hospital volunteering since soph year
500 hours pharmacy internship since fresh year
will be working a job during summer before senior year
been a tutor since freshman year
3 years in science research (class offered at school where we go to science fairs)
CSF
national merit - psat 226; havent applied for it (october)
been playing golf for 4 years (not at school, and no rankings) -not even worth writing down?
club president since freshman year
member of jsa
teen court member - work as jury for actual minor offenders</p>

<p>honor societies:
mu alpha theta, spanish honor society, science nat. honor society, nhs, english national honor society</p>

<p>colleges:
at highest:
lower ivies
northwestern
stanford
johns hopkins
ucla/berkeley</p>

<p>ba/md programs at:
northwestern
boston
brown
ucla,ucr,ucsd</p>

<p>thank you!
leave a link and ill chance you back</p>

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<p>You’ll stand a good chance at all of those schools.</p>

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<p>thanks! you need a chancing?
and please tell if i have at any chance at all at the top 3 ivies?
harvard yale princeton?</p>

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<p>^ i concur. except some schools like stanford might be a low reach. a solid college essay ought to clear that up though.</p>

<p>harvard yale princeton would be high target?
i mean, your ECs are looking pretty legit.</p>

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<p>Get some more leadership experience and a great essay and the big three won’t be out of the question.</p>

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<p>thanks guys
im just worried because of my lack of sport+ instrument,
something all people seem to have
i did do cm 6 for piano in 6th grade aha but quit</p>

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<p>well. you have golf. golf is always good for business. lol</p>

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<p>ahaha its just that im not ranked or anything
i just play for fun - bogey hitter</p>

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<p>Hi smiley612,</p>

<p>I am also trying to get into many of the same bs / md programs that you are applying to. Looking at your stats, they are all amazing! Truly awesome! I think you have a really good shot at almost all the colleges you are trying to get into, but I think northwestern may be a bit more of an uphill battle as there are very limited seats and is very competitive. </p>

<p>Looking at your ECs, you are extremely competetive at all the other schools though, and I think brown may be your best bet right now. Only time can tell though.</p>

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<p>thanks theChance
best of luck to you!</p>

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<p>oh i should clarify if it wasnt clear:
all those courses listed are AP classes and im expecting 4s/5s
they make 13 total APs put together.</p>

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<p>You look really competitive for the programs. High numbers and good extracurriculars. You have a chance, but it will be tough because you are applying BS/MD. Good luck!</p>

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<p>thanks muchoschocolate
anything i should do in terms of ecs to better myself?</p>

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<p>I think you can get in at almost anywhere with those numbers and especially the quality and commitment in ECs. The Ivies are questionable for anybody, but you got a real good shot.</p>

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<p>Your chances look very good with all your AP Classes. I say you have a great chance at where you mentioned you want to go.</p>

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<p>looks amazing. you have a great balance of good numbers and great EC I hope you have some good recc from alll of that. I would bet your in to brown cornell ect… stanford columbia harvard and yale take a bit of luck in the end but hopefully youll get at least one </p>

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<p>Your volunteering is simply outstanding
However, I think you might want to work on some awards for the extracurriculars
Im not sure whether top schools consider volunteering or awards better</p>

<p>In terms of chances:</p>

<p>Ill say below stanford- match / low reach
Stanford- reach
Ivies- high / mid reach (but they are for everyone)</p>

<p>BS / MD programs are different
Im not counting those in the chances because the number of accepted students are EXTREMELY slim
Im talking 1-2% acceptance rate so the chances of those are small for anyone that doesnt have RSI, Siemens, Intel and volunteering like yours (which I hope is impossible)
But good luck and I think you are well on your way</p>

<p>Leave a chance please
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<p>im looking to do a research project next year hopefully that will be sent to the intel talent search
our school sent 2 people this year.
thanks everyone
any more ecs i should be doing to improve my chances?</p>

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<p>Hey smiley612,</p>

<p>OK so so far your stats look like a good fit for the mid- to high-ivies.
About the golf. If you don’t think it’ll stand out in your application, don’t put it in. More often than not it’ll seem more like filler than a meaningful EC.</p>

<p>Stanford: Reach
Ivies: Low Reach, HYP: Reach (even though i said you’re a good fit anything can happen with the ivies)</p>

<p>BS/MD will be much, much more tough.
I think to have any chance of those you’ll have to get some sporting ECs, and maybe more leadership roles. Your academics look great though!</p>

<p>Chance back a Penn hopeful??
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>Your EC’s and grades are excellent!
You will get into mostly any school but ivies are reaches for every one, but you still have a good chance.</p>

<p>those md programs, there are very little spots, so competitve is very fierce. </p>

<p>best of luck! </p>

<p>chance me too.</p>