My top choice is Georgetown or Columbia, but with my rank and GPA, I’m almost certain that I won’t get in. Since I am in-state for TX I do like Baylor Uni and their honors program. But UT Austin is also great, albeit with a much larger pool of pre-meds, and my older brothers both went there. Do you think I could make the College of Natural Sciences and be able to major in Public Health, maybe even get into Health Science Honors? I am also very interested in Plan II, which my brother also majored in so I know a great deal about it. I’m not scared of getting into Baylor, but since I am not auto-admit to UT, I’m terrified of getting rejected.
What are my chances at UT’s College of Nat Sciences and also Plan II? Thanks!
-SAT Score: 2130 (690 read, 730 math, 710 writing)
–planning to retake the new SAT
-GPA 3.4/4*; this is not very good, but I messed up in my math class freshman year, my rank was 127, and then I nearly halved that my junior year, where I stand at about rank 60 (top 10% of my class)
-planning on taking ACT and SAT subject tests in math 2 and chemistry
-Officer of NEHS
-Officer of Red Cross
-playing in orchestra for 8 years, made all area-region this year
-participant of science fair for 13 years, got my twelve year award this year
-went to city science fair 3 times
-received a special award from Houston Academy of Medicine for my sci project
-2nd place in science fair in medical category
-DECA state finalist
-volunteered 100+ hours at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
-attendee of Youth Medical Summit in Rice University (hosted by Houston Health museum)
-Attendee/helped organize the MECP2 Bi-Annual Conference hosted by the Baylor College of Medicine
-tutored children for 2 years
-took 6 AP classes so far, got a 4/5 on all, going to take 4 more this coming year
-I am probably going to be National Merit commended, not sure about being a finalist (the cutoffs are not available yet but I am in the 99th percentile)
*my GPA is not hot at all, but I stand at top 10.2% in one of the 10 best school in Texas and there’s a drastic improvement from where I was freshman-junior year. I hope colleges look at improvements…I went from mostly A’s and a few B’s to all A’s.