Chance Me Pretty Pretty Please! Hopkins/Emory/Duke

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>Hi! I'm looking to apply to Hopkins, Duke, and Emory....can a few people PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE chance me? Please be brutally honest i'll really appreciate it I'm looking to apply for biomedical engineering</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.82 ( i have 3 B's: 1 in sophomore year (AP US) and 2 junior year (AP Bio and Honors Analysis...but i had medically extenuating circumstances junior year)</p>

<p>Courses:
9th grade-
Honors Bio (A)
Honors English (A)
Honors American Civ (A)
Honors French II (A)
Honors Algebra II (A)
Ceramics 1/Gym (A)</p>

<p>10th grade-
Honors Chem (A)
Honors Geometry (A)
AP US (B)
AP Psych (A)
Honors English (A)
Honors French III (A)</p>

<p>11th grade-
AP English (A)
AP World (A)
AP Bio (B)
Honors Physics (A)
Honors French IV (A)
Honors Analysis(precalc) (B)</p>

<p>Current classes-
AP Stat, AP English, AP Chem, AP Environmental, AP Calculus BC</p>

<p>AP Scores: Bio (4), Psych (5), English (4), AP US (3), World (4)
SAT: 2270 (M: 740, CR: 760, W: 770)
SAT 2: Biology(710) Math 2(800)</p>

<p>EC's
2nd degree black belt in karate
Started own Indian dance team
Science Fair (since 7th grade; won multiple awards and a scholarship)
Yearbook (editor for 2 years, staff member for 1)
Started UNICEF club at school
Youth Secretariat for Model UN for 2 years, president for 2, participated all 4 years
French Honors Society officer (1 year)
National Honors Society general member
Science National Honors Society general member
Rho Kappa National Honors Society general member
Currently in the midst of starting a social enterprise</p>

2

<p>Your SAT/ACT results will be important for Duke, since your GPA – while competitive – is not compelling. If your junior year medical situation was sufficiently serious to permit reasonable GC comment, I suggest you ask your counselor to include a BRIEF explanation in his recommendation; this could possibly/partially mitigate your Bs. </p>

3

<p>Thank you! Anyone else have an opinion?</p>

4

<p>your academics look good, although your schedule is not considered ‘rigorous’ at their level anymore, ridiculous, i know. you have some good EC’s however, they seem to be kinda scattered and random</p>

5

<p>Duke is a match. Emory is a low match. Hopkins high match</p>

<p>Chance back?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1701134-chance-for-uw-madison-new-test-score-will-chance-back.html#latest”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1701134-chance-for-uw-madison-new-test-score-will-chance-back.html#latest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

6

<p>@bboy219‌: That’s interesting, since Duke is generally considered to be marginally more admissions-competitive than Hopkins. </p>

7

<p>@TopTier It is interesting. </p>

8

<p>@bboy219‌:</p>

<p>Admission Rate (2013 -2014 application cycle):

  • Hopkins 15 percent
  • Duke 10.8 percent</p>

<p>Middle 50th percentile range for admitted students in 2014:

  • Hopkins 2120 - 2310 (mean within this range = 2215)
  • Duke 2105 - 2385 (mean within this range = 2245)</p>

<p>Given the foregoing data, and understanding that these two truly excellent universities receive applications from a largely similar cohort, I stand by my comment (in #5) that Duke is marginally more selective than Hopkins. </p>

9

<p>Duke is significantly more selective than JHU. </p>