Chance me for JHU and other bs/md programs Please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>My top choices are:
Northwestern HPME, Rice/Baylor, Case western 7 year, U penn, Harvard, Yale, Princeton (legacy), JHU (Should I ED?), Wash U undergrad, Amherst</p>

<p>Targets
Georgetown, Tufts, UNC Chaple Hill</p>

<p>Safeties (I hope)
Rutgers 7 year
ＮＹＵ</p>

<p>SAT I (breakdown): (800 cr, 780 m, 740 w ) 2320 in one siting (Super score=2340 --> 800 Cr. 780 m, 760 W)</p>

<p>SAT II: Biology M:800 (2times), Chemistry: 800, physics 780</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9 unweighted, 4.64 weighted</p>

<p>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): ＮＡ，but i think top 5%　</p>

<p>AP (place score in parenthesis): Chemistry 5, taking ap lang and comp, ap bio, ap physics b, ap us history</p>

<p>APs by end of senior year：5 ap scores to send and 6 more senior year (Ap calc bc, Ap stat, ap enviro, ap lit and comp, and ap econo macro and micro)</p>

<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NJRSF Intel symposium finalist (meaning that I didn't go to compete but was chosen as alternate) 1st place in category, research scholarship, 1st place Statistical Analysis</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
-Science Honor Society (VP)
-Music Honor Society (Treasurer)
- Academic decathlon (vp this year, pres next year)
- Science Bowl (will be pres in senior year)
- Chemistry Olympics (this year starting)
- Math league
-Science league
- Marching Band (Drum major)
- Flute Ensemble / choir (founder)
- Jazz band
- Pit Orchestra</p>

<p>Sports
- Freshmen year I did track but it ultimately took up too much time so I quit , still I really enjoyed the experience since it was my first time on sports team. It really helped me grow as a person
( I spend around 200 hours in practice and placed 1st in the freshmen country 200 m dash for girls)</p>

<p>Volunteer/Community service: so far around 120 hours in a hospital (worked as a transporter, volunteer in neuroscience, cardiac)</p>

<p>Clinal exposure/ shadowing a physician:
Not sure if this is legitimate, but I have spent around 100 hours shadowing a family friend in her clinic. She is a chinese medicine practioner, meaning she does things like acupuncture and herbal remedies</p>

<p>Essays: will be good hopefully... I am learning that I am quite bad at talking about myself</p>

<p>Teacher Recommendation: will be amazing, one from math teacher who is well known with ivies to be a tough teacher and one from my research teacher</p>

<p>Counselor Rec: probs good (she thinks I put to much pressure on my self and tries to exceed in too many areas, but overall we have a good relationship)</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): New Jersey
School Type: Public
Ethnicity :Chinese　Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: ~150,000</p>

<p>SERIOUS QUESTION: Should I ED for JHU? I just visited and loved it!!!!! I'm scared that I will definitely get rejected if I don't ED though because I heard that JHU is crazy tough for science oriented students, but my dad is saying that I shouldn't just in case I get accepted into one of my top chice 7 year programs, in whcih I will definitely go, since my dream has always been and will always be to become a doctor!　</p>

<p>Please chance me and offer any advice!! Another thing...about clinical exposure and more medical
research. Do people usually just contact doctors for physician shadowing? How does that work?</p>

<p>Also this might just be New Jersey, but I am having a really hard time finding a college research mentor. I am hoping to contact universities now in NY and CT, because I've basically talked with all research professors in my area (working on cell biology) for local colleges and they have all not been able to work with me. Will this be different if I talk to professors in NY and CT?</p>

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<p>I’d say you have an okay chance of getting in. Probably high match, though, because your EC’s are pretty general and other applicants would have stats that pretty much look like yours.</p>

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<p>@thelemonisinplay, thanks for the feed back. So do you think I should ED for JHU to have a better shot at admissions or that RD would be okay as well? What would you say that could do to improve my chances at this point?</p>

<p>Also do you have any insight about the shadowing physician and research mentoring questions that I asked?</p>

<p>and bump for any other feed back!!</p>

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<p>You don’t need a mentor to do successful research in science. In fact, some people are able to contact mentors in universities that are pretty far away (think CA for you), and just talk to them over email in case you’re having some difficulties. Even that isn’t really needed - just read research papers and figure out what you want to work on (that approach will not work if you don’t have an excellent background in your field of study, or, if your field of study is as old as mathematics/physics).</p>

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<p>Sorry yukihime, I can’t be of any help on the shadowing/mentor questions, because I have no clue about the process. I’ve never shadowed a physician before, which honestly probably puts me at a disadvantage because I’m also going to apply to several BS/MD programs - some of the ones that are on your list, among others.
About JHU, I would say go RD because, like you said, if you’re truly passionate about medicine and it’s your dream to land a spot in one of those 7-year medical programs, it would be a bit of a disappointment to be accepted ED and not be allowed to choose what you want to do. Although JHU is really fantastic for medicine, I would go with a 7-year program. It’s your decision, but that’s my perspective.
Also, just curious - why aren’t you applying to BU’s 7-year accelerated medical program?</p>

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<p>@engarde,
I completely understand where you’re coming from, but that doesn’t seem to be the opinion of research judges these days. so last year I worked with my chem teacher on a research project on climate change. That project taught me a lot about research plan development and experimental design. Ultimately I got to got to ISEF for that! Yay:)</p>

<p>But as you can see my passion is medicine, so that’s why this year I worked by myself and designed a project testing the effects of various substances on Alzheimer’s disease. I used a lot of references from research journals and I honestly thought my project was better than the one I did last year, but at the fair I didn’t place as a ISEF finalist and didn’t even place in my category. I spoke to some of my judges and they said the main reason was the lack of ORIGINALITY is my design/project. They wanted to see new pioneering lab techniques being used. That’s why I was thinking of working with a research mentor at a university/college lab- they would be on the frontier of their field and also I would have more resources (electron scanning microscope, tissue culture, etc) to pursue my research study.</p>

<p>@thelemonisinplay, I originally did think about BU’s 7 year program, but am now debating because BU requires a rec from history, english, and math/science teachers. I perfectly fine with getting math/science and history rec, but the english is concerning.</p>

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<p>You should be fine with JHU RD</p>

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<p>@yukihime</p>

<p>If you need equipment, that’s a valid reason (and one that’s difficult to get around). Originality, on the other hand, is not. If you read enough research papers in a very specific, concentrated field, you will come across a topic you can work. Start by asking very simple questions, and go from there (I was also an ISEF finalist last year - didn’t have a mentor).</p>