chance me please! i will chance back

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<p>I am a junior Indian male on Long Island that wants to do pre-med</p>

<p>I have taken 7 AP's(all 5's)
World History
Statistics
Biology
Computer Science
US History
Physics
English Lit</p>

<p>will be taking (and expect to get 5's on)
Calc BC
Chem
US gov and politics
Macroeconomic</p>

<p>I have a 3.9 unweighted GPA (4.2 weighted)</p>

<p>Test Scores:
PSAT:240(80m,80cr,80w,)
SAT: 2360 (800m,780,cr,780w)
ACT:34(dont remember breakdown)
SAT II's: Bio(m)- 800 Math I- 800 World History:800 Chem- 780</p>

<p>Extracurriculars/achievements:</p>

<p>Starting middle linebacker and captain of Varsity Football(11/12)
Varsity Basketball(11/12)
Award for top 2% in SAT in 8th grade(dont remember name of the award)
Made AIME for AMC 10
Gold medal for Congressional Award: Congress' Award for youth
National Merit Scholar
Shadow an orthopedic surgeon at SUNY: Stony Brook
Shadow my aunt who is an attending surgeon at Washington in St. Louis
Have 500+ hours volunteering at a the local nursing home
Make sandwiches for a soup kitchen in NYC 2 times a month
Perform dances at Gold Water hospital in NYC
Worked at FONAR as a construction worker summer into 10th grade(dont know if it helps)</p>

<p>Recommendations:
Great rec from bio and geometry teacher
great counselor rec</p>

<p>Essay:
Will be good</p>

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<p>Quick chance: Match</p>

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<p>Assuming CAS (premed),
Good chances for sure!
Your ecs stand out from the generic asian applicants and your scores are great!</p>

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<p>I’m going to go with an 85% chance of getting in. Well done!</p>

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<p>Oh, didn’t see this:

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<p>Geometry teacher? Are you taking Calc BC as a senior or a junior? If a junior, why not get a recommendation from that person? Someone higher than a geometry teacher?</p>

<p>^Disregard if the geometry teacher thinks of you as the best person in the whole wide world. Then the teacher will probably have an excellent recommendation and easily surpass any other recommendations your other teachers could write for you.</p>

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<p>I do not think it’s 85%, but you have good chances.
and yes, junior teachers make the best rec builders
it should preferably be
1 rec from english/history/language teacher
1 rec from math/ science teacher</p>

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<p>my geometry teacher thinks i should be in harvard on a full scholorship thats why I chose her, but if it really does matter I can get it from my Calc BC teacher</p>

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<p>Ok
if you asked her already and she’s a reasonable person, then leave it at that out of courtesy
if you didn’t and you did not indicate that you would ask her, consider these questions

  1. Does she know you well?
  2. Did you do well in her class academically and beyond?
  3. Do you really trust her?
  4. Does she write good recs/ have experience writing recs for successful students/ is she a responsible woman?
    If you answered yes to all/most of these, then she may be a good consideration – just don’t let her write a rec that fawns over you but cannot show what type of person you are. If not, go with a junior year teacher that knows you well and fulfills most of these criteria. Colleges generally put lot more weight into junior year teachers’ recommendations.
    Some diversity in recs can be good too, since a language teacher rec can show uniqueness + are generally more well written (does not matter as much for this point as long as it shows the type of person you are)</p>
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<p>we have already discussed this and I have heard from her prior students she does give great recs, and I do know firsthand because she has written me recs for other programs</p>

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<p>Top chance, if you dont make it in, then they probably think you would have picked Harvard over them or something.</p>

<p>Definitely match.</p>