Chance Me Please!! (ED/EA/RD)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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<p>General: Rising Senior, Female, New Jersey.
Ethnicity:Asian.
Career Interests: CompSc-Biomed, Premed, Med.
School Stats:</p>

<p>GPA: 3.7 Unweighted. 4.15 Weighted.
AP : Junior Year - AP Chem, AP US History, AP Lang, AP Calc BC
( Exp. 5 in all)
: Senior Year - AP Biology, AP European History, AP Economics, Physics
Hons, Multivariabe Calculus.</p>

<p>Taken Toughest courseload offered.</p>

<p>Rank: Our School doesn't Rank</p>

<p>Standardised Testing: </p>

<p>ACT: 33
SAT II: Math II - 800; Chemistry - 790</p>

<p>EC's:
•Tennis –part of the high school girls team
•Swimming –a member of the X-cel Swim Team, Princeton
•Golf – member of the varsity golf team in school
•Red Cross –a beneficial program at high school
•REBEL –making a difference within schools
•Literary Magazine –writing and sharing literature with those who
have a similar passion
• Math League –
• Community Helpers –at the middle school, traveled to nursing homes and soup kitchens to help the needy
• Volunteer Services –at two different hospitals
( more than three years, 350+ hours todate)</p>

<p>Research:</p>

<ul>
<li>Attended a Summar Program in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University</li>
<li>Did a cancer research for 5 weeks in Medicincal Chemistry at Rutgers
University</li>
<li>Doing Internship at Johns Hopkins Medical School (Summer 2008) for 10
weeks</li>
<li>Did lot of "C" programming and MathLab</li>
</ul>

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<h1>I am planning to apply to Northwestern, Duke, JHU, WU, Case Western, UMich, Brown , Rice, MIT , Wellesly and Cornegie Mellon.</h1>

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<p>No standardized test scores?</p>

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<p>I took only ACT and SAT II Math and Chemistry.</p>

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<p>You're as competitive as anyone who applies to these schools. To stand out, though, it's important to pick two or three areas of interest and focus on them in the applications; everyone has a laundry list of awards, accomplishments, and extracurriculars. Most top schools prefer passion in 1-2 areas; they're creating a well-rounded class with varied students, not with well-rounded students. The essays are the best area where you can talk about a passion but be careful not to repeat other areas of the application.</p>

<p>You should be sure to spell the names of the schools correctly - not an insignificant item!</p>

<p>There's no real safety school on your list; the top schools are still a crapshoot! My son had 800/800 SAT's, 16 AP's, #2 in the class, etc./etc. and was accepted to only 6/10 schools. Harvard rejected more than half of the applicants with 2400 SAT's last year.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>I think you have a good chance at all your schools. Your GPA might hurt a bit, but it sounds like you have some great research experience which should make up for it. Try to get some awards in research too like siemens and intel. Those will help a lot. As neuron39's post confirms, you really do need to focus on showing your passions. For me i talked a lot about research and what i learned from it. Numbers and rank won't be enough to get you in so really try to emphasize certain passions in your essays and I think you will have a great shot. Oh and if you can get recommendations from your research mentors (those help immensely).</p>

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<p>Thank you all for your inputs. It helps a lot. BTW, I do have great letters from my research professors. I would like to take their recommendations as well.</p>