Chance me for University of Washington, St. Louis, Brown BSMD, Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hey,
I’m a junior in high school and I was just wondering if what I’ve done so far still gives me a chance at some of the colleges I want to attend.

SAT Score: 2350
ACT Score: 36
PSAT Score: 228
Unweighted GPA: 3.9 (one B in first semester of junior year in AP Calc, because the passing away of a close family member and other family problems affected my grades tremendously. AP Calc teacher understood and said she would write a teacher rec letter saying that my B was because of family problems. I also had a rigorous junior schedule with 5 APs, including Biology and Chemistry)
Weighted GPA: high 4.64 ish (gradebook won’t show us yet)
Class Rank: 1-3%

All honors classes, two APs sophomore year, five APs junior year, projected 6 AP classes senior year

AP Test scores:
AP European History: 4
AP Art History (selfstudied): 5
Hoping to get all 5s on all AP classes for the future.
Current APs: AP Chemistry, AP Biology, AP US History, AP Calculus AB, AP Lang
Tentative APs (senior year): AP Microeconomics (required), AP Macroeconomics (required), AP Physics, AP Lit, AP French, AP Calculus BC, AP Statistics, AP Government (required) (AP Gov and AP Econ are one class at our school)

SAT II
Math 2C: 800
Tentative: Chemistry, Biology, etc.

Extracurriculars:
Reporter/Editor for school newspaper, three years
Reporter/Editor for large Los Angeles newspaper, two years
Captain of Varsity Tennis Team (2 years) (MVP, League Champions 2 years) (CIF two years)
President of Debate Club (won various awards at the national level)
President and founder of Science Olympiad Team at our school, won various awards
Officer for three more clubs, founder of a non profit organization toward health
Piano player for church for four years
Music for Healing at nursing center, four years
Piano for six years
Medals at Tae Kwon Do Tournaments
Hospital volunteer, three years
Brain cancer research at lab, work published to scientific community
Hoping to compete in INTEL competitions, Google Science Fair, etc.
Hoping to get more extracurricular activities when possible.

I’m Asian and Male

Any advice for the future would be great as well :slight_smile:

Thanks, you guys are awesome.

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I don’t know about the other schools, but you’re definitely getting into UW. No doubt. Other students with considerably lower stats than you were accepted into the Seattle campus last year.

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I assume you mean Washington University in St Louis. You’re really right there for any school in the country, but unfortunately you’re shooting for the best, so I would hesitate to say that you have better than 50-50 odds at any of them. My D1 had similar stats and similar ECs, and she also suffered from being a high-achieving Asian American but she did get into Brown and got in off the waitlist at WUSTL (which typically makes weird admissions decisions to enhance their yield). Another AA girl we know who is said to have one of the highest GPAs at my D’s high school in the last five years was rejected on EA to Stanford. I would say low reach for WUSTL. High reach Brown and Stanford. You’d be significantly better off applying ED to Brown. Stanford is a crapshoot for any Asian American male from California.

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VERY stereotypical asian, and nothing stands out… in terms of straight up grades you’ve done amazing, but not much else. Overall, I’d say most of them are low reaches except UW which you’re basically in to.

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You’re competitive for the BS/MD programs. University of Washington doesn’t have one, so if you are talking undergraduate there, you should apply to the Honors College.

At Stanford, you move from the 5% chance crowd up to 1/3 - 1/5 maybe.

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Expect to be wait-listed at places like Duke or Vanderbilt or WUSTL where you would normally think that you are right in their target range. The schools don’t think you’re going there and they are trying to maximize their yield. They might waitlist you to see if you really really want it. The odds are that you are going to get into at least one of the Ivies or an MIT or Caltech, and a place like WUSTL doesn’t want to waste an acceptance on you when they won’t get you. It’s not fair but it’s the reality of admissions for Asian Americans these days. Reading over your stats again, you might be strong enough to overcome this institutional bias (he says hopefully), but you should set your expectations at a realistic level.

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@reddr0p That’s a very offensive comment. Stereotypical Asian? That’s wrong. Replace that with another race. A stereotypical black? A stereotypical Hispanic? A stereotypical white? These are all offensive comments.

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I’m curious–did you first author the brain cancer paper? And was it published in a peer-reviewed journal? Or did you just present it at conferences?

I ask because the phrasing of the statement threw me off for a second.