Chance me please?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Actually I'm looking for advice more than an actual chance, but I'll get to that later. First my stats.</p>

<p>Note I am a Junior
SAT: 2390
SAT ii: 800 in Bio M
AP: 5 AP Bio, 5 APUS
GPA: Will probably be around a 3.95 unweighted by application time
No ranking system
Course Load: As rigorous as it can be basically.</p>

<p>Achievements:
USA Biology Olympiad Semifinalist<br>
Several Science Olympiad Medals at regional, invitational and state levels<br>
Sportsmanship Award
Future Problem Solving State Medalist (2nd place and went to International)
Merck Science Day 6th in State Biology Test
Probably will be NMS+AP Scholar</p>

<p>Activities & Interests:</p>

<p>South Asian American Student Association Club (SAASA-Choreographed and performed dances for fund raisers) (10th,11th)
Science Olympiad (9th,10th,11th)
Future Problem Solving (member) (9th, 10th, 11th)
Colombia Science Honor Program for Neuroscience
ModelCongress Part time job as waiter<br>
Student Council (Class representative)<br>
Boys Tennis JV (9th , 10th)</p>

<p>Community Service:
Library volunteer (40 hours)<br>
Chinese School Volunteer (will be around 150 hours)<br>
Lab Assistant for AP Bio Class </p>

<p>Stuff I think I'll have by application time:
Officers for SAASA, FPS, SO, maybe school treasurer too, and I'll be taking a course at Princeton. Oh and some kind of research over the summer, maybe like NIH.</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian Male, I guess lower middle class</p>

<p>Okay so now my questions. My first choice is Yale, but I'm aware that my application will not be the most impressive. Should I try SCEA to Yale, or commit myself to a school like Columbia, Upenn (not warton, cause I'll be going for med), JHU or Brown (Not for 8 year med) through an ED and try to take advantage of the raise in acceptance rates? I probably will change my mind a lot through the next year, but I'd love to hear your thoughts. :)</p>

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<p>And, with a file like that, I believe it is best to apply to a 8-year med on top of that, as well as a safety.</p>

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<p>I personally think you have a great enough chance to apply to Yale scea</p>

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<p>@Catria, I thought about it, but I decided I’m yet undecided exactly what I want to do with med. I may choose to go into biomedical research, depending how I feel in a few years.</p>

<p>@hpsycm could you explain your reasoning? I don’t have any relatives that went to college in the US, so I actually don’t have lots of knowledge on application process. Is my app really at the level of Yale students?</p>

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<p>You have some great stats,I would put your chances at yale 50 50.Definitely apply to that and some other ivies and i have little doubt you will get into at least one.</p>

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<p>Thank you for the vote of confidence. I do intend to apply to the other ivies I mentioned for RD (and others of course), but I’m still not sure about which one is best to apply early for, cause while Yale is my favorite, the other schools I mentioned aren’t far behind and applying early to those does give a slight advantage, but they’re all binding. :&lt;/p>

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<p>Once again, this is one of those “mouth-dropping applications that puts others to shame.” Honestly, though, I think you have excellent chances for Yale or any other Ivy League university.</p>

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<p>Thanks! So what I’m hearing so far is that I should SCEA Yale</p>

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<p>stats and awards are awesome, i agree that you have a great shot at SCEA to yale. good luck!</p>