Chance me for Johns Hopkins Biomedical Engineering and Other Top Schools!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hello everyone! I am a senior in IB from Canada and I am applying to Caltech, MIT, Hopkins, Cornell, and Harvard. Johns Hopkins BME is my first choice! I am looking to major in BME, biochemistry or CS. Please chance me based on the following information, thanks!

New SAT: 1540 (790 Math, 750 Reading/Writing, 22/24 Essay)

SAT Subjects: Not yet taken, will be taking Math II and Chemistry

Grades (lol probably my weakest point): My grades in freshman and sophomore year were definitely not great (low to mid 80s average) but my grades improved in junior year (89 average, which is a 4.0 GPA but only two of my classes are weighted even though all except one of my classes are IB classes). There is an overall upwards trend in my grades. Another problem is that I don’t have a very strong physics background, because we can’t take all three sciences in IB.

HLs: English, Math, Chemistry
SLs: Econ (7), French (6), Biology

Extracurriculars:
Music Council Executive: Media Rep in Sophomore year, President in Junior and Senior years
Symphonic Band: Section Leader (I play the tuba!) (Sophomore, Junior, and Senior year)
Wind Ensemble: Member (Freshman and Sophomore year)
Oxfam: Leader (Junior and Senior year)
DECA: Top 10 at regionals (Sophomore and Junior year)
FBLA: 2nd in provincials in Sophomore year, competed at NLC in Atlanta
Research: I am working at one of the top research institutions in Canada, affiliated with the University of Toronto. I work with a masters student on her thesis and I also have my own summer project that I am hoping to write my extended essay for IB on. Since I’m not 18, I can’t perform any wet labs but I learned to use a fluorescence microscope, and data analysis etc.
I am also currently learning Python on my own

Contests and Awards:
Placed in the 94th percentile internationally for online physics competition Physics@Mac
Placed in the 75th percentile nationally for the University of Waterloo Fermat mathematics competition
Music Council Outstanding Leadership award

I know these schools are reaches for everyone (especially me lol.), but I would really any replies! If it helps, I am a female of Chinese descent (lol). Please let me know what my chances are, and where I can improve. Thank you so much!

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SAT is good enough. Shoot for 800s on Math 2 and Chem. You’ll stand a much higher shot for if you apply Hopkins ED as well.

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@twobaplaya Unfortunately, I don’t believe that any of the schools on your list will look at two years of “low to mid 80s” and one year of 89 and calculate that out to a “4.0 GPA.” Their calculation is likely to be more in the 3.2 - 3.4/4.0 UW https://pages.collegeboard.org/how-to-convert-gpa-4.0-scale and https://y.byu.edu/ces/html/gpaCalc.html. That would put you in the bottom 5% overall at JHU, and probably even lower were breakdowns for BME available. As an asian female you are also an ORM in bio related fields which isn’t going to help. Also, remember that as an international applicant your odds are significantly lower than a domestic applicant with the same stats. Think you need to reevaluate your list for some schools that are less of a reach. You’d have a much better shot at a school like NYU where 40% of students have GPA’s under 3.49.

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JHU doesn’t consider first year grades which will help her out.