Chance me? -northwestern, John's Hopkins, Princeton

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I applied to all 3 schools regular decision. At Northwestern and Princeton I applied political science. At jhu I applied bio med engineering.

ACT
32 composite

EC’s
Student council- student body president
NHS- president
Interact (youth rotary)- founder and president
FBLA- state vice president, last year state secretary, chapter VP and secretary the last two years
Mayor’s youth commission -president
Iowa youth congress
Literature club
International club
Varsity XC
Varsity tennis
Academic Quiz bowl
RSVP lead team
Student Ambassadors
Youth philharmonic orchestra last year

Interned at city’s Convention and Visitors Bureau the past few months

Chosen for a board to pass a city tax levy for school funding.
Chosen as a member of a community board to conduct interviews for a new city administrator.

I am passionate about service. I have ~300 hours of service and I’ve created some service projects in clubs I’m in. For example, I created a STEM fair where elementary and middle students come and hear presentations from stem professionals in an effort to excite them about learning.

My essays and recommendations are decent. I’m just worried there’s nothing special about me. I applied early action to case Western reserve in Cleveland and was deferred, which makes me even more nervous for these three schools.

Thanks for your help!

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So, firstly, without your GPA it’ll be tough to predict. However, even with a perfect GPA, I’m going to predict a rejection everywhere, except for maybe at hopkins in the general school. For Princeton, your ACT will likely be too low. For Northwestern, same story, although maybe a better chance here. And for hopkins BME, you don’t really have any bio-related extracurriculars or experience, and for their program, which is the #1 in the country, that’s going to drop your chances significantly. You still might get into the general school at Hopkins, though, and I think it’s possible that you get into Northwestern if your GPA is good. Almost definitely a no at princeton and at Hopkins BME, though.

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Sorry I knew I was forgetting something. So I have a 4.536 weighted and about a 3.9 unweighted. I’ve taken all the ap’s offered at my school and 3 more (macroeconomics, comp sci and chemistry) online

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I think Case Western Reserve had deferred lots of people since they had so many applicants and my classmates who got deferred aren’t worried about it.
NU waitlist
Johns Hopkins waitlist for BME
Princeton reject