Chance me for JHU, please?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I visited JHU in November after extensive research, and I've decided it's the school for me. I'm just not sure if I can get in. I'm a white female high school junior.</p>

<p>SAT superscore: 2280 C/// 750 CR/ 770 M/ 760 W
ACT single sitting: 35 C/// 35 E/ 34 M/ 36 R/ 35 S</p>

<p>My school doesn't use a 4-point scale for GPA's. My UW GPA out of 100 is about a 98.5; weighted, it is around 104.5
My school also does not rank, but I think it's reasonable to assume that I am in the top 10 out of 500</p>

<p>Courses:</p>

<p>Freshman </p>

<p>English Honors
Pre-AP World History
Earth Science Honors
Geometry (no honors option)
Spanish (no honors option)
Chorus</p>

<p>Sophomore</p>

<p>English Honors
AP World History (scored a 4)
Chemistry Honors
Algebra 2/Trig Honors
Pre-AP Spanish
Chorus
Acting</p>

<p>Junior</p>

<p>AP English Language
AP US History
AP Biology
AP Physics B
Pre-calculus Honors
AP Spanish Language
Chorus</p>

<p>Senior (unless any scheduling conflicts)</p>

<p>AP English Lit
AP Government
AP Chemistry
AP Physics C
AP Calculus BC
College Spanish (dual enrollment)
Chorus</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Girl Scout for 12 years: earned bronze and silver awards, and currently working on gold award
International Thespian Society grades 10,11,12: participate in 4 plays a year with over 200 hours of onstage work and about 25 hours of set building
Gay-Straight Alliance grades 9,10,11,12: Vice President grades 11 and 12
Model Congress grades 10,11,12: no major awards
National Honor Society: running for office, nothing decided for next year yet
World Language Honor Society: grades 11 and 12
Swing Choir grades 10,11,12: Selective jazz choir, rehearse once a week with 3 performances a year
Natural Helpers grades 9,10,11,12: not a very big deal, we were nominated by classmates in 8th grade; we discuss bullying and being nice to others
Piano grades 9,10,11,12: Started playing in high school, perfect score in NYSSMA (NY music performance thing) last year
All-County Chorus 2014: grade 11, based on previous year's vocal NYSSMA score, very selective group
National Spanish Exam grades 8,9,10,11: bronze, honorable mention, honorable mention, and do not know yet
Volunteer at library for the past five summers</p>

<p>*I plan to major in molecular biology, chemistry, or astronomy
*I expect very good scores on my AP tests this year; probably APUSH 4 Bio 4/5 Physics 5 English 5 Spanish 4
*I will most likely be working at a lab this summer</p>

<p>Thanks in advance for your help!</p>

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<p>Your statistics and extracurricular activities are both good. However, I am wondering how you manage to do about 10 activities at once. That shows that you are unable to give a lot of commitment to them. Try to focus on a few of them instead. Good luck!</p>

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<p>bump?</p>

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<p>you’ll get in if you apply early decision, good chance RD too. Academics are very good (near top of class, great ACT, rigorous course load) and ECs decent enough (some depth of involvement, leadership). While ECs may weigh you down a bit they’re fine for a school like JHU esp. if you are going ED where they like demonstrated interest.</p>

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<p>@Redheaded - Anyone telling you “you’ll get in” at a school like JHU with a 17% admit rate is doing you a disservice. Do you appear to be as good as any of the 3500 or so they will offer admission to this year? Sure, but no doubt there are a couple of thousand more out of the almost 21,000 that applied that also had credentials good enough. But since JHU knows that about 40% of the offers they make will be accepted and they only have about 1350 spaces to fill, they have to deny an offer to many great students. I also agree that your EC’s seem a bit wide and not obvious that you had a major commitment to more than one or two. I would emphasize the 4 you spent the most time with and play those up.</p>

<p>So do I think you have a great chance of being accepted, especially ED? Yes, I do, based on what we can see on here. I just don’t think it should be portrayed as a slam dunk.</p>