Chance me lovelies

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chance me please, and although its a bit late (I'm a rising senior), little suggestions would be appreciated</p>

<p>Want BME/bioengineering
JHU engineering applicant , UPenn (engineering), MIT, Columbia, Vanderbilt, Duke, UVA (in state applicant), VTech (safe), UMD college park, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell</p>

<p>GPA: 4.5 weighted, 4.0 unweighted, top 1% in class, but not validictorian or saluditorian (big school)</p>

<p>SAT I: 2150: 670 CR, 750 M, 730 W (taking again in oct, hoping to improve CR)
SAT II: 800s on Physics, Chem, Math II</p>

<p>APs:
5s on Chem, Physics B, Calc BC, Calc AB, AP.USH, Comp Sci A,
4 on World History and Geo
Next year: bio, lang, us gov, comparitive gov
Also next year: Dual enrollment crazily hard math course merging Multivar calc (calc in 3D), Diff eq, and linear algebra (math in 4D)</p>

<p>ECs: a little weak, too caught up in schoolwork :-(
Girl Scouts: gold award (highest award, equivalent to boy scouts eagle award)
Community service at library, helping build new library in community, organizing their early literacy program (200+ hrs)
Tennis: on varsity team, won school sportsmanship award and athlete award for having undefeated season and team award for going to regionals 1st time in school history
Summer course at university of pennsylvania: bioengineering
National honor society: spend time in community service
Science honor society: help younger high schoolers with science projects
Tutoring people struggling with math at high school on Saturdays and Wednesdays
Part of School Orquestra (sorry I spelled wrong)
Won local olympiad, was chosen out of 200 to go to states
JHU CTY: ap physics and ap bio nxt yr</p>

<p>Background
-Live in VA, competitive area
-White
-Female (helps w/ engineering ???)</p>

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<p>Bumpity bump</p>

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<p>I am going to base everything by your current SAT Scores
JHU engineering applicant: good chance
UPenn (engineering): reach
MIT: reach
Columbia: reach
Vanderbilt: good chance
Duke: reach
UVA (in state applicant): good chance
VTech (safe): well its a safe
UMD college park: safety too?
Carnegie Mellon: good chance
Cornell: a slight reach
I mean if you get your score to 2200+ i think you could get into the slight reach schools…good luck!</p>

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<p>I am not so good at chancing threads, so this is just my opinion… You are a strong applicant but more competitive schools are always reaches as there are applicants with perfect scores and grades applying by the bucket full and their acceptance rates are low. You are in the range of acceptances, so yes, you have a chance.</p>

<p>I would apply to all of them and perhaps add a few - I hate the term safety- but a few schools that have above a 10% acceptance rate!! - because even under the best of circumstances everyone’s “chance” is 10%.</p>

<p>If you are considering Duke ( a 5% acceptance rate) why not NCSU- check out their biomedical engineering program. Bucknell has a program too.</p>

<p>Yes, being female helps too.</p>

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<p>My councilor is pretty sure I’ll get into UVA, since I’m an in-state applicant and go to a magnet high school, so that is my fallback hopefully. Vtech and UMD college park are safety schools just in case. </p>

<p>And also, I’m ranked 3rd/450 in school, does it help at all to be top 10? or it only matters if you’re validictorian or saluditorian (just missed by 1 :frowning: )</p>

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<p>no way for ivy leagues with 2100 SAT and weak ec’s, sry bro.</p>

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<p>:-(
I’m hoping that my SAT II scores might help???
And also trying to get my SAT score up to 2200 from 2150.</p>

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<p>No, you could probably get duke as well as some pretty good in-state colleges.</p>

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<p>I would love to get into duke
the best college in my state (VA) is UVA, and my councilor is pretty positive that I’ll get in (I go to a magnet school, 70% of the people who apply from my school get in, I am ranked 3/450)
Do you think I have a chance at cornell ??? (its ranked lower than duke)</p>

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<p>Bump Bump Bump</p>