Chance Me RD

Colleges and Universities A-Z Emory University
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General Information:

Junior
Korean Male
Upper Middle Class Family(~120k)
From Oregon
Intended Major-Biochemistry or Biology

Academics:

4.00 Unweighted GPA
My school doesn’t use weighted GPA
4.55 UC Weighted GPA
Tied for #1 class rank out of ~375

1580 SAT (800 Math, 780 Reading+Writing)

800 SAT Subject-Math 2
800 SAT Subject-Biology
Expecting 780+ SAT Subject-Physics

Advanced Courses:

10th Grade:
AP Calculus BC-4
AP US History-5

11th Grade:
AP Spanish Language
AP English Language
AP Biology
AP Computer Science Principles
AP World History
IB Physics 1
Linear Algebra (University of Oregon)

12th grade (expected):
AP US Government
AP English Literature
AP Chemistry
AP Computer Science A
IB Physics 2
College Spanish (University of Oregon)
Proofs (University of Oregon)
Numerical Analysis (University of Oregon)

Extracurriculars:
4 years School’s Advanced Orchestra (7 years violin)
2 years Robotics
2 years JV Basketball
9 years Piano
3 years Guitar
3 years Student Government
Tutoring

Other:
A few state math awards
National AP Scholar
National Merit Scholar
Summer Internship for a biology professor at the University of Oregon
Trilingual (don’t know if this helps)
200+ hours volunteering at hospital
I play piano at my church
2 week long Mission Trips to Mexico, Honduras, Dominican Republic to help kids in poverty

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Great shot, but be sure to apply to more stats sensitive schools. They would like you even more. You could try for the scholars checkbox, but I am not so sure about that. You look like many Emory applicants/admits but with very high stats. Perhaps the state math awards could be sold in an essay, but then they would wonder how this could be related to bio or biochem or whatever you plan to do at the University. I would say almost a shoe in for admission, but you never know. There were wait-listed and even some denied candidates that looked like you in the last cycle. Regardless, I imagine that one of you top choice schools may take you if you are not interested in Emory (for example, if you are interested in branding and really would rather be at some Ivy, you could have a decent shot at Emory tier Ivies like Brown or Cornell). Anything beyond this tier is a true crapshoot. Good luck.