<p>Alright, this is the first time that I've ever posted a thread, let alone a chance thread.</p>
<p>I'm an Asian male, who intends to major in Biochemistry and go Pre-med. It's a very popular choice, I know.</p>
<p>Academics:
223 PSAT
1540/2270 SAT (Took it only one time)
Not sending any SAT II's
4.0 Unweighted GPA
4.5~ WGPA</p>
<p>5 APUSH
4 AP Biology
5 AP Language and Comp
I will have taken 9 AP courses by the end of my senior year</p>
<p>Class Rank:
1/325 UW
5/325 W</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Boy Scouts - Eagle Scout rank (9-12)
Electric guitarist for my church youth group - play every week, and every major holiday we do concerts for the entire congregation (9-12)
Relay for Life - On my school's Accounting committee and of course relay attendee (12)
Varsity Track and Field - High Jump/Long Jump (10-12)
Spanish National Honors Society (12 or 11-12, inducted last year... not really sure)</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
Nat'l Merit Semi-Finalist
AP Scholar with Honor
Academic Letter/Principal's Honor Roll - All years eligible
Kansas Honor Scholar</p>
<p>Recommendations - They'll all be pretty solid. I have a good relationship with my teachers and counselor.</p>
<p>My top schools (RD for all)-
U Chicago
Northwestern
USC
Vanderbilt
WashUSTL</p>
<p>Please chance me for those 5 schools! If there's anything that I missed, please let me know. Thanks!</p>
<p>Many of those schools like to see SAT II. They recommend, but do not require them, but that means that they pretty much want them.</p>
<p>To be honest, all top 25’s are reaches. Your stats are great so you have a better chance than most, but these all (as far as I know) have acceptance rates around 10%, and trust me, many more than 10% of applicants had great stats. I’d say UChicago is the longest shot, it’s a high reach for nearly everyone, NU and Vandy are probably tied at being reaches, and USC/Wash are low reaches. I may be off a little, but these are all probably some form of reach.</p>
<p>I took 2 subject tests after the AP tests last May, but I did really poorly because I honestly didn’t try at all. I got a 670 Bio and a 700 USH. In retrospect I probably should have studied, but I can’t change that now. How significantly would it hurt my chances if I didn’t send any?</p>
<p>And Wallrus is wrong, I know plenty of people that have gotten into SAT II recommended schools without them. Don’t worry about not having them, they are just something that works for you, not against you.</p>
<p>@Crimson Yeah, I do know that these are tough, tough schools to get into, but that’s the reason I made this thread. Your speculations pretty much match what I’m mostly thinking, thanks.</p>
<p>Yah, I think you still have a good chance at NU, WashUSTL, Vanderbilt, and USC. UChicago, however, is just crazy so…</p>
<p>Hah tell me about it… I guess we’ll just have to see in April.</p>
<p>I still think you should take the subject tests if you can. You clearly have the grades in these classes so taking Math II and 1 science shouldn’t be that hard for you to do well.</p>
<p>Alright, thanks for the advice… I was really happy to be done with standardized testing until May, but I might just in fact have to take the subject tests. :/</p>
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<p>If you don’t think you need the boost of having SAT II’s you really don’t need to take them (assuming UChicago, or one of the others doesn’t require, but just recommends). NU for sure just recommends them, and I’m not doing it.</p>
<p>Bump… for some extra opinions, please?</p>
<p>Bump!</p>
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