Chance me please!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Current senior.

Resident of Pennsylvania
White
Male
First generation
My family income is around 35k. So I don’t know if that is low income, middle class, idk.

I have a 4.3201/5 weighted gpa
I have a 3.8875/4 unweighted gpa

Freshman year course: honors science, advanced computer tech, honors us history, honors algebra, honors English, honors Spanish, gym, and honors geometry.
Sophomore year course: honors bio, honors chem, honors alg 2, honors world history, honors Spanish 2, gym, honors pre-calc, and honors English.
Junior year course: honors Spanish 3, honors English, honors anatomy 1, honors chem 2, honors anatomy 2, honors psychology, honors government and civics, and gym.
Senior year course: AP Calc, College English, College stats, College bio, AP Euro History, Honors economics, AP Physics, College Spanish.
That is the most rigorous schedule possible. I am taking every AP and college level class my school offers.
Class Rank: I think I am around 7-10/354. Top 5%

SAT 1: 710 in Critical Reading, 730 in Math, and 610 in Writing, for a 2050 composite score. Writing was my highest in prep so that should rise. I also didn’t have a calculator for the math section and only got like 2/3 questions wrong so I think that should rise.
My practice tests have me getting about a 730 in CR 760 in M and 710 in WR for a 2200 composite score.
SAT 2: Haven’t taken yet…but I think I will take Math 2, Literature, and Biology (M)
ACT: Haven’t taken and don’t plan to take.

I have around 300 hours of volunteer work from tutoring and as a camp counselor for my school’s 6th graders. I also am a mentor to 9th graders.
Other EC’s are FBLA (2 years), Student Council (2), Science Olympiad (2), NHS (2), Varsity golf (4), Varsity Lacrosse (2) JV Lacrosse (1), black-belt in tae-kwon-do after 5 years, and People to People Student Ambassador Program, for which I raised $7,000 for my trip myself.

Recommendation wise I am getting the teacher who taught me for Biology, both Anatomy classes, and College level Bio. He is the best teacher I have ever had, and is the person who has been a major motivating and influential factor in my interest in medicine. I will also get my counselor who can attest to how I have matured and grown up over my high school years. I fully expect both of their letters to be fantastic.

I would like to major in either Biology or Business management. I plan on moving toward either Medical school to be a surgeon or law school to specialize in corporate law. I don’t have direct experience in any debate club or anything, but I have shadowed my DA several times and am getting volunteer at my local hospital set up.

So here are the schools:

Penn
Duke
Georgetown
UNC (OOS)
Boston College
BU
Northeastern
Pitt

If you have any other suggestions let me know.

Thanks for any responses guys.

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Boston University and Pitt are matches, not sure about the other schools however. 35K is around the lower end of the income bracket. You probably will qualify for merit scholarships due to your stats. I highly recommend looking at Temple. You will definitely qualify for merit scholarships. (more info on Temple): https://admissions.temple.edu/sites/admissions/files/uploads/010-1415_Scholarship-Info_FINAL-ADA_508.pdf

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Why no APs in junior yr?

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My school only offers 3 AP classes and you can’t take them until senior year. Those are AP Euro, AP Calc, and AP Physics. I’ve taken every AP class I can. We have a lot more CHS classes and I have taken almost all of them.

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I looked at Temple but was really turned off by the surrounding neighborhood. I am not a huge fan of Philly, but I absolutely love the area Penn is in.