GPA: 3.6 UW 4.1W
Took a very rigorous course load at a private school
AP’s taken/ will take: AB/Bc Calc, Psych, APUSH, BIO, Chem, Gov,
ACT: 34( taking in June)
SAT: 1440(w
Math 2: 800
Bio:760
APUSH: ? yet
EC:
Volunteering: 1000 in total (500 working in a hospital)(400 helping underprivileged children in India)(50 peer tutoring)(50 work in many of my clubs) + whatever I do this summer
4 years JV tennis–> 2yrs JV captain
4 years V Track–> 2yrs Leadership Council
MIT Inspire finalist (top 100 out of 5k)( contest involving subjects in the humanities)
Co-Founder of UNICEF Club–> 2-year member
GYLI Club(Global Youth Leadership Initiative)–> group leader --> 4-year member
Newspaper Club–> 4 year member–> editor for two years(Section then Senior Editorial Board)
Summer Job at Kumon/Mathnasium
Shadowing a nephrologist
Trying to get an internship at dentist office/ other business’s
Male, 1/2 Indian, Middle Class
Colleges I am looking at
Michigan State*
UofMichigan-Ross( sister went here)*
Penn State- BS/MD- My dad is colleagues with a booster for PSU, and he will write me a rec
UMiami- Bs/MD
UCLA- UC Berkley
Duke University
UNC
Boston College
Johns Hopkins
Any other school suggestions for pre-med/business that would be good for me
*My school has a great relationship with all Michigan schools, for example, they got someone into UofM with a 3.3 GPA and a 29 ACT not hard schedule and barely any EC
Please tell me what schools are a safety, match, or dream and any other colleges I should be considering
Based on your list, none of your schools are really safeties. They’re all large universities and they all have varying levels of competition; for example, UCLA gets well over 100,000 applications a year, the most applied-to school in the country. If a big school is where you want to be, then these are great choices. If you like a more intimate learning environment where you get more attention to shine, I’d add some smaller schools with less students. Bigger fish, smaller pond kind of thing. You clearly have a lot of great ECs, but I have a bit of advice:
Don’t interpret your volunteering experiences as a number of hours earned. You could spend a million hours doing something, but if it doesn’t matter to you and if you don’t walk away a better person, there’s no point. If you do things for the sake of your resume that you aren’t passionate about, then that’s a lot of time wasted on your part. Of course colleges like to see involvement and a well-rounded student, but your integrity and your heart also matter to them (this comes through in the essays). Doing things that matter to you, learning about things you’re interested in, and supporting causes you care about is the reason to volunteer, not to bolster an application. So going forward, be careful about that mentality.
Your legacy status (yes, a sibling counts as a legacy) will give you a leg up at UMich, but getting into any big school’s STEM majors is going to be difficult (I’m assuming you want to do STEM because of your resume). They’re often impacted and extremely competitive (re: UCLA) so just know that even with a fantastic application, if there simply isn’t enough space for you, they’ll toss you in the reject pile. Your essays are where you can give them your pitch and truly convince them that you’re the perfect student for them (if you look at some of my other replies, I’ve written about this more extensively).
TL;DR You might consider adding some smaller schools (reputation isn’t everything), and taking stock of your resume and thinking about what you want out of life and your experiences. Best of luck, and I’d say your in-state schools are the “safest,” though all your choices are stellar.
Can your family afford to pay $60K+/year to attend UCLA or UCB? Little to no financial aid for out of state students, so expect to pay full fees. Also California is not a Pre-Med friendly state: too competitive/too many applicants…
Ross is very competitive but you should have a better chance at LSA of UMich from in state. Your GPA is a bit low but if that is typical for your school, that would be fine. Have you looked at the Naviance data of your school? Don’t just rely on a single applicant as reference as each applicant is different. Certain schools within UMich have lower admission state because of different admission criteria or applicant pools while you are looking at the most competitive one (Ross).