Currently a junior in high school and I just wanted to know my chances of getting into these schools.
Objective
GPA: 96 or 3.8
SAT: 1410
Class Rank: 60/730 so top 8%
Race: African-American/First-Generation born in America (Nigerian)
Any other hooks: Parents just got divorced, been alone living with my mom for 3 years/ Single parent household
Classes taken so far
AP World History
AP Psychology
AP Environmental Science
Honors Algebra 1 and 2
Honors Biology and Chemistry
Honors Geometry
Junior Year Schedule (THIS YEAR)
AP Physics 1
AP Statistics
AP US History
AP Language and Compositon
AP Bio
Debate considered honors
Honors Pre-Cal
Senior Year AP Classes I’m taking (NEXT YEAR)
AP Literature
AP Macro
AP Calc
AP Gov
AP Human Geo
Anatomy and Physiology (Honors)
Microbiology
Debate
Boston University: Sargent School of Public Health (4+1 Masters Public Health)
University of Washington: School of Public Health
Georgetown: School of Nursing and Health Science (Accelerated Global Health track)
Northeastern: Bouvé College of Health Sciences (4+1)
NYU: School of Social Work
USC: Keck School of Medicine
Cornell: College of Nutritional Sciences
Major: Global Public Health/Social Work
Minor Hopefully: Women and Gender Studies or English
I’m really passionate about public health, from my clubs and extracurriculars, I love giving back to the community and learning about how we can solve problems that stunt growth in our community. I hope to focus on diseases that impact other countries with a focus on Africa and women. I also want to participate in Peace Corps in college. My dream is to go into Global Health Law and eventually work for the United Nations. Consider myself and advocate of social justice and a health community.
Subjective
Clubs
President of debate team (I go to finals pretty often, will go to state this year) (Captain Spot)
National Honor Society
Class Vice President
-Created a Club known as Girl UP which raises money for the United Nations for Girls all over the world (President). We started a drive at our school that collects pads, tampons, and other stuff for women at Haven for Hope. Created an annual color run called: A Walk in her shoes open to the whole school district. Started a girl’s camp over the summer that has different activities for girls at my school. Culture fest for different cultures at my school to raise money and awareness.
Participate in food distribution for church every month.
Future Physicians Club (Secretary); Just a career based club where talk about health professions and visit different
Youth Community Leader for church; I organize all the community service activities and clothing distributions that youth in the church does.
Play piano for church every Sunday (fun fact) also play the violin and was in orchestra
Volunteer work at University Health System (75 hours+)
African American Culture Club
Run Youtube Channel and a Blog that talk about studying and my life.
Letters of Rec I’m getting
-AP Bio Teacher also the sponsor for m club/very close relationship. Georgetown Alumni
-AP Stats Teacher: Also pretty close with
-Debate Coach: Extremely close with
-AP English Teacher: knows my writing and personality
-APUSH teacher (maybe): Great TEACHER one teacher of the Year in Texas
Scholarships?
-Am I a possible candidate for the MLK Scholarship at NYU, Ujima Scholarship at Northeastern, Presidential Scholarship at BU, Trustee or Presidential Scholarship at USC
Essays
-Topics I’m considering writing about
-I really want to reflect my passion about helping the community and my trip to Nigeria. My trip was what really what made me decide that I wanted to pursue the major I wanted to pursue public health with a concentration in social work
-Also talk about how Debate has really opened my eyes and really helped me see the world in a different way
You’re basically guaranteed admission into Northeastern, NYU, and BU. You’ll probably also get into Cornell, USC, and Georgetown as well, but I would consider those schools high matches for you.
In turns of scholarship candidacy, this depends a lot on intangibles. Overall I think you’re qualified for these merit scholarships, especially at NYU, Northeastern, and BU. My prediction is you’ll probably get the the MLK Scholarship at NYU, Ujima Scholarship at Northeastern, Presidential Scholarship at BU, and Presidential Scholarship (half-tuition) at USC.
In hindsight I would have applied to USC for a chance at the Trustee or Mork Scholarships (full tuition), but oh well. Good luck in your college application process!
Boston - probably accepted
Georgetown - I’d guess somewhere around 50% chance here
nyu- a little higher than Georgetown, around 55-60%
Northeastern probably accepted
USC- around 40-50%, since their medicine is good
Cornell- your lowest chance, around 35%?
I’m not sure how much affirmative action will help you, so those predictions are iffy. I’d really suggest taking the sat 2 bio to give med schools a little better gauge of your bio knowledge. Good luck.
@Plumbus thanks for changing me. I’m not going to med school I’m going to law school haha. I’m going into Global Health Law so yeahhh. Thank you I was thinking about taking an sat 2 but I never knew which one to take. Is there anything else I can do to get me a higher chance into any of those schiol
@adrinitis yeah, that’s what I meant by medicine; any school with medicine-related things is going to want some bio specific things. You’ll probably want the sat 2 bio, M section (for molecular biology instead of like ecology stuff, which is the E section). Other than that, the things that will give you a higher chance are pretty generic; if you think you can get a higher score, take the sat again (Not that a 1410 is bad at all, but it could help) keep your grades up, do well in some debate competitions or something to have some competitive success in general, and write good essays. Just a disclaimer, that debate essay you’re thinking about is probably the very standard “both sides of an issue” essay, which I think is a very common essay for people who do debate to write. The one about Nigeria sounds good though, especially with you being Nigerian. Good luck.
Boston University: Accepted
NYU: Accepted
Northeastern: Accepted
USC: Accepted
Georgetown: Accepted
Cornell: I would guess waitlist, but it could go either way and I could easily see you being accepted as well.
Northeastern- match
USC- low reach
NYU- match
Boston University- match
Cornell- definitely a reach but for sure still a chance
Georgetown- high match but well within range
If anything could be improved I would say SAT score and make sure to do well on those AP tests this year!
BU: Probably a low match/match
UW: match
Georgetown: low reach/high match
Northeastern: high safety/low match
NYU: match
USC: high match (they really want good SAT scores)
Cornell: reach
Honestly, you are quite a strong applicant with your extracurriculars and a clear focus. You can probably improve your SAT score if you want to improve your application.
Boston University: accept
University of Washington: accept
Georgetown: accept
Northeastern: accept
NYU: accept
USC: accept
Cornell: waitlist
Your application is really good and it seems you’re really committed since you’re starting to post on collegeconfidential in junior year (most of us just worry and get on here by senior year).
Also what’s your YouTube channel, I’d like to watch a video
Northeastern: Pretty much guaranteed acceptance
USC: A little reach
NYU: Accepted
Boston University: Accepted
Cornell: A little reach, but still very possible
University of Washington: Accepted
Georgetown: Likely acceptance
You have an overall impressive profile! Your ECs are great and your overall course load lifts you up the ranks.
