Chance Me for these colleges!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys, I'm going to be a senior soon and I've been researching up some colleges but I have no idea if I have a good chance at some of these schools so help me out please!</p>

<p>Background: I am a first generation asian male living in Southern California
Major: premed</p>

<p>Grades:
9th Grade:<br>
Algebra 2/Trig H
Bio H
Eng I
Spanish I
PE
Computer/Health
10th Grade:
Ap Euro
Chem H
Eng II H
Ap Calculus AB
Spanish IIH
Golf
11th Grade:
Eng IIIH (weighted class)
Ap Chem
AP US History
Spanish III H (weighted class)
Ap Calc BC
Golf</p>

<p>I got straight A's in freshman 2 B's in first semester sophomore (spanish II H and calc ab) straight A in 2nd semester sophomore 1 B in first semester junior (Eng III H) and 2 B in 2nd semester (Eng III H and SPanish III H). 5 B's total, 7 weighted classes.</p>

<p>Senior Schedule
Ap Computer Science
Ap Eng Lang
AP Stats
Ap Bio
AP Econ/Civics
Golf</p>

<p>AP Scores:
Calc Ab 5 Calc BC 5 Ap chem 3 AP us history 4 Ap Euro 4</p>

<p>Sat's
2140 (800 math 680 CR 660 Writing) will retake and aim for 2250
SAT II's
U.s History 700 (will retake) Chem 710 (will retake) Math II C 790 680 Korean (-_- will NOT retake)</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
Eagle Scout
Won a writing competition
Golf 3 yrs by end of senior year
Historian of Key Club, one of the bigeest clubs at our school
went to mexico 3 times to help the poor
volunteer for 4 years at church helping mentally challenged kids
altar server at church 2 years
Volunteer at hospital helping the elderly over senior summer
National Merit Scholar (not sure about semifinalist yet)
attended a leadership course sponsored by UC Merced
attended a summer leadership course in a military bootcamp-like school (forgot the name but I have records of it somewhere xD)</p>

<p>I have over 500+ hours community service from church alone</p>

<p>I am very confident I can get great letters of recommendations from my ap chem, ap us history and glc.</p>

<p>Chance me for these schools!:
John Hopkins (thinking of ED)
UC Berkely, La, San Diego, Irvine
Washington University
tufts
Carnegie Mellon
USC
Emory
Northwestern
Boston College
Duke</p>

<p>Thanks for your help in advance. =)</p>

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<p>oh yeah and my ranking is (101/825)…very competitive and big school
my total gpa is 3.85 and 10-12 is 3.73</p>

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<p>Things that may lead you to a decline: Asian nationality, pre-med major (in high demand), not in top 10% of class, a 3 in a science AP when you are going to focus on health/science in college.</p>

<p>Johns Hopkins, Duke, Northwestern, Tufts, and Emory will still be tough and you should apply to multiple colleges in this group because some will inevitably decline you.</p>

<p>Based on statistics, close to 100% of kids at the UC schools are in the top 10% in their classes. Dunno if that will affect your chances.</p>

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<p>I heard from several people that ap tests don’t really factor into someone’s admission process and that it is only used to determine what credits a student will or will not get. Is that wrong? If ap tests do really count, could I make it up with a high sat 2 score in chemistry? As for my class rank and gpa, I also heard that they look at which classes a student received B’s in. Since two of my B’s come from spanish, a subject not really used for premed would that help me at all?</p>

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<p>Holy Cross has great pre-med with new science building and strong medical alumni. Holy Cross has nice campus 1 hour from Boston. HC is a Jesuit school like Boston College…</p>

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<p>Oh yeah I researched that college too but forgot to add on to the list. How about the questions I post above though. Does chem ap score really hurt your application if I can bring my sat 2 chem score to like 780+? And also even though my rankings were low, that ranking is unweighted…I’m positive my ranking would be higher if it were weighted. But my question is even if I have 5 B’s 2 of them were from spanish and since that class is not really essential to premed major would that help me out?</p>

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<p>Holy Cross also has a joint pre-med program with Tufts Med School. During your Sophomore year, I believe, you can apply early admission to Tufts, but it is pretty tough to get in. It is almost only based on college performance, though. Give that one a thought.</p>

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<p>anyone else?</p>

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<p>me and you are in teh same boat buddy. i will have taken 11 aps by the end of senior year but your extracurriculars are slightly better than mine. Our problem is that there are thousands of other individuals who have a resume similar to ours. Especially in a competitive field, all we can do is attempt to make ourselves stick out and hope for the best. Hope we get into good colleges!</p>