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<p>Hello, I’m going to be a senior this fall. And I need all the help I can get to get into this college PLEASE HELP! I am pretty passionate about music (cello), dance (break-dancing), sports (soccer and track) and studying... I just like doing everything that's fun... Enjoy meeting new people...Parents didn't go to college so I really want to (first-generation to go to college) I want to take pre-med courses...I am almost certain and determined to go to Medical school after undergrad.</p>

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<li>State (if domestic applicant): Minnesota</li>
<li>High School: Small private school 140 in my class? Top 5% for sure</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian/Korean</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Income Bracket: <50 K
*Bilingual in Korean and English around the same level, working on French (6th year!)
*Moved to American when I was 8 and now an American Citizen…so pretty much Korean-American</li>
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<p>AP/Honors Classes- AP World History, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP English 11, AP Calculus 1, and Honor’s French 4</p>

<p>Going to take this fall (Senior Year)-AP Calculus 2, College Credited French 5, College Credited Anatomy and Physiology, AP English 12, AP Economy...
So graduating with 8 AP courses and 2 college courses (4+4=8 college credits for sure).</p>

<p>GPA Unweighted= 3.96/ Weighted=4.246
SAT- R=600 +W=690 +M=790= 2080 AIMING FOR 2100=2200
SAT 2- Chemistry=650, Math 2=800
ACT=29? Retake????
Extracurricular
MUSIC
-Machphail Music School Privet Lesson (10 Years)/Various Orchestra (6 Years)/Group/Buddy Program (help work with younger musicians (2 Years)
-Tri-Metro Orchestra Participant (9, 10, 11)
-All-State Solo/Ensemble Contest...Superior ratings for all solos (Highest) (9, 10, and 11)…7 sites for woodwinds, vocal, band, strings, etc… BEST in site (only 1) solo at the strings site
-All-State Orchestra (12 WOOO!)
-Small Church Cellist (6, 7, 8) Every Sunday
-Church (5000 in congregation few events) Orchestra Principle Cellist= 200+ hrs (11)
-Orchestra Board/Principle cellist position at school (Plan, lead, and organize parties and musicians
-Lettered in Orchestra (9, 10, 11...12)
-Bunch of small music awards and academic recognition awards</p>

<p>SPORTS and ACTIVITIES
-Track and Field (10, 11) (Lettered 10, 11) (Sections individually 10, 11) (Most Improved) (TRACK CAPTAIN!! (12))(Seeing into recruitment)
-Soccer (9, 10, 11...12) (best offense and MVP)
-Break-dancing=6 years, (shows, events, and competitively in competitions with crews) (I want to show colleges dancing in a more passionate and meaningful way, but not sure how)</p>

<p>VOLUNTEERING
-Elementary School Teacher Assistant/Personal ESL helper/One-on-One= 120+ hrs (9, 10, 11)
-Hospital in patient discharge, rooms, and gift shops = 300+ (9, 10, 11)
-All the church music (cello)</p>

<p>OTHERS
-Minnesota State High School Mathematics League= Top Score Certificate (11)
-Science Olympiad (10, 11, 12)
-French Club (9, 10, 11, 12 French Club PRESIDENT!!(12))
-National Honors Society (12, probably will get in)
-Academic Honors Award (9, 10, 11 lettered academically)
-National Merit Achievement (Commended at least for PSAT, will be notified in the fall if I moved further into the National Merit Scholarship)</p>

<p>-Probably Good Recommendations and Essays for next year</p>

<p>ACT?
College suggestions?
Other recommendations on increasing my chances? PLEASE</p>

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<p>Everything but your SAT CR and W, your Chem SAT2 and your ACT are strong.<br>
If you think you can get a higher ACT (which I suspect you can) or can improve the SAT CR score, you should give that a shot.
But you should definitely apply, irrespective of whether you raise those scores. Write compelling essays and see what happens.
Good luck.</p>

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<p>Half of all applicants this past year had a 32 ACT (2130 SAT) or higher. To be competitive, you should raise your scores a bit. But besides that, you look good.</p>

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<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/202936-good-pre-med-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/202936-good-pre-med-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;
Read this thread on good medical schools^</p>

<p>Consider schools where interviews are important if you think you’d succeed at that (you seem to be really passionate/excited about a lot of things so I’m gonna say that you might be great at it).</p>

<p>A lot of times the best school to go to for pre-med is one where you can get good grades (grade inflation), not necessarily the schools known for the hardest coursework.</p>

<p>Northwestern has a lot of National Merit finalists, which I assume means that they like to have them, not that you’ll have more competition. Since we have similar stats (I have the equivalent of 32 ACT and the exact GPA!) I’ll list the match schools I’m looking into (keep in mind you probably have the better ECs): Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, Emory, Tulane, UNC Chapel Hill, Carnegie Mellon, and Northeastern. Also, University of Washington at Seattle is known for their research/med.</p>

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<p>Thank you so much for your suggestions. So basically the tests/interviews/essay…I’ll look into more of the pre-med stuff.</p>

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<p>Your activities are competitive. Yet, you are an ORM + male, which menas you are playing in a whole different field. Raise your scores ‘significantly’. GL!</p>

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<p>^^BelleNiente-
How do Tulane and Northeastern come to be on the same list of supposed “match schools”? Those two are not in the same league, and not remotely as hard to get into (especially Northeastern), as Northwestern, JHU, Emory (or probably Carnegie Mellon or Chapel Hill).</p>

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<p>WCASP –</p>

<p>Interesting Question – for my D, we used the following categories. </p>

<p>Reach (most candidates have better stats in some way);
Match High (Statistics match admissions profile, but it’s a numbers game );
Match Mid (Statistics match admissions profile >50% chance, but rejection wouldn’t be a shock)
Match - Low (Statistics significantly better than average in some way, but school produces some squirrely results, so it can’t be considered a safety (75% chance or better)
Safety – If you don’t get in, it’s a problem.</p>

<p>With this system, Tulane can be a Match-Low and Northwestern a Match-High (both Matches, though they have significantly different acceptance chances).
Safety</p>

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<p>Wow thank you. So high match for northwestern. I’ll work on that.</p>