Chance me at BU

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi,</p>

<p>So I am going to apply to Boston University's Undergrad Biomedical Engineering program, and I was wondering what you guys thought of my chances of getting in...so here we go</p>

<p>Asian Male Resident of Westwood, MA
GPA: 3.3 UW, 5.3 W (out of 6.0)
Rank: School doesnt rank, probably top 25%
Competitive school (we send about 5 students to Ivy's every year)
Class size: 220
Most rigorous course load
- 9th grade - All honors classes
- 10th grade - AP Chem and the rest honors
- 11th grade - AP US History and AP Physics B and the rest honors
- 12th grade - Going to take AP Stat, AP Calc, AP Physics C, AP Lang and Comp, Honors Spanish, Honors Psychology</p>

<p>AP Chem - 4, AP US - 3, AP Physics B - 4</p>

<p>ACT: 30 (retaking....getting around a 34 on practice tests so hopefully i can do that well)
SAT: 1980 (Once again, retaking...hoping to get around a 2100)
SAT II Chem: 720
SAT II Math I: 720
SAT II Math II: 760
SAT II Physics: 640 (screwed this one up...)</p>

<p>EC/Volunteer:
-Internship for two summers at Harvard Medical School in the New Research Building (Summer of 11th,12th)- Did mostly computer stuff (installed servers, software, hardware, etc.)
-Began a branch of Akshaya Patra in Massachusetts (11th, 12th) - Akshaya Patra is an organization which gives free food to underprivileged kids in India
-National Honor Society (1th, 12th)
-Academic Decathlon (10th, 11th, 12th) - won award for speech in statewide competition
-Science Team (10th, 11th, 12th)
-Key Club (9th,10th,11th,12th) - Recently elected as Vice President
-Percussion (9th, 10th)
-Religious (Jain - props to anyone who's heard of Jainism) Education (9th,10th,11th,12th)
-Created advertisements for nationwide Jain phonebook (summer - 9th)
-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (9th) – Educational Studies Program - I went to MIT every Saturday for 10 weeks and took classes in Economics, Debate, and How to start a high tech business
-Selected for and attended Boys State (11th)
-Leadership Development Program (summer - 9th) - I helped organize games and take care of little kids
-Minuteman Press School (Summer of 12th) - I learned about printing and marketing (my parents started a printing business and Minuteman Press is a franchise, so we all went to this school for 2.5 weeks and learned about how to start the business, how to price jobs, how to print on a press, etc.)
-National Honor Society (11th, 12th)</p>

<p>Sports:
9th - Soccer, Ski Team, Outdoor Track
10th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track (letter)
11th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track
12th - XC, Indoor Track, Outdoor Track</p>

<p>Reccomendations:
I'm definitely going to get good ones from my GC, my math/computer science/engineering teacher, and my english teacher</p>

<p>Thanks for helping me out!</p>

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<p>def in 10 chars</p>

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<p>what does 10 chars mean??</p>

<p>I also forgot to mention that my sister attended BU and graduated in 2006 (she majored in finance and marketing, nothing near my major) I'm not sure if that will help me get in.</p>

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<p>10 characters because my post was too short to post.</p>

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<p>ohh ok</p>

<p>thanks for the opinion</p>

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<p>in.............
why do you even ask when you know you are getting in??</p>

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<p>dnduswo: I'm not sure if I'll definitely get in because they have a very good biomedical engineering program, so I'm guessing its harder to get into that than just getting into BU</p>

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<p>yea id say your almost definitely in</p>

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<p>bump</p>

<p>Do you think I should declare my race (asian) or just dont answer the question on the common app? Does it make a difference in admissions?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>it won't make much of a difference. you're in.</p>

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<p>Thanks for all of your replies</p>

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<p>bump bump bump</p>

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<p>anyone else have any opinions?</p>

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<p>bump again</p>

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<p>bump once again...</p>

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<p>just give your race...if your name is a generic "Patel" or "Lee", they'll know anyway...Not declaring your race when you're in fact Asian may seem dodgy and clever to adcoms; in essence, it can only hurt you to do such a thing. Oh, definitely in; why not consider some other schools (within your GPA range of course)?</p>

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<p>no need to bump this post, you got the responses you wanted already...</p>