Chance Me!

<p>Hello everyone,</p>

<p>First of all I would like to thank you in advance for coming to my thread and taking time to read and provide advice. This is beyond helpful and I am very grateful for this community.</p>

<p>In short, I am a rising high school senior, beginning to look into colleges. I am interested in majoring in most definitely sciences. Most likely biology, chemistry, biomedical engineering, neuroscience, psychology, or the like. As of now, like many other young inexperienced people, I see medical school in my future, so I would like to keep that in mind during my college search. However, it is also very important for me to go to an university with a wide variety of colleges, just in case I discover my passion for another subject. However, I am focusing on sciences because I am almost 100% sure that I will NOT major in literature, history, agriculture, etc etc.</p>

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<p>My Stats:</p>

<p>GPA Weighted: 3.94 (around this, calculation method may be off)
GPA Unweighted: not sure, will update later</p>

<p>SAT I (Super Score)- 2020
780 Math
640 Reading
600 Writing
8 Essay</p>

<p>ACT- 33
32 Writing
33 Math
33 Reading
34 Science
7 Essay</p>

<p>SAT II-
740 Math 2
740 Biology E
750 Chinese</p>

<p>Course Schedule-</p>

<p>Middle School
Honors Algebra I
Honors Geometry
Honors Spanish I</p>

<p>Freshman
Honors Algebra II
Honors Biology
Honors Language Arts
Honors Spanish II
American Gov/Health
Band</p>

<p>Sophomore
Honors Pre-Calculus
Honors Chemistry
Honors Language Arts
Honors Spanish III
AP World History (5)
Band</p>

<p>Junior
AP Calculus AB (first semester had a 79 unweighted and 86 weighted, worried about this)
AP Biology
AP Lang
On-level Physics
On-level US History
Band</p>

<p>Senior
AP Stat
AP Chemistry
AP Lit
AP Micro/Macro
PE/Internship
Band</p>

<p>ECs-</p>

<p>Club (# of years in by graduation)</p>

<p>Student Council Representative (4)
Beta Club (4)
Marching Band (received varsity letter) (4)
Tutors in Action (2)
Winterguard (1)
Science Olympiad (1)
Pep Band (1)
Medical Society (1)</p>

<p>-regular volunteer at local library
-peer education at a local AIDs center
-part time job as of summer 2011</p>

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<ol>
<li>Which other colleges would be matches for my stats?</li>
<li>Reaches?</li>
<li>Advice on early decision if it increased my chances?</li>
<li>Is financial aid generous for low income families?</li>
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<p>Thank you so so so much once again for your help and feel free to ask for clarification on anything!</p>

<p>At emory if your income is below 50k you basically get a full ride… very generous FA (they pay what you cant so if your efc is 5k they pay 50k yoy pay 5k) and as far as stats your SAT/ACT would make you a match for Emory. Reaches for you are Upenn and the other ives. I think you should apply RD but just communicate with your regional rep and just let them know you love emory and write this in your essay (they love reading about you visiting in essays). Matches for you prob will be NU, UChicago, Emory, Hopkins, and Georgetown as long as your essays are solid. Either way just communicate to each schools regional rep and hopefully one day you’ll be at Emory!</p>

<p>P.S. if you send just your ACT score and not SAT it makes you look better 33=2230-2260 on SAT. A 2020 will place you in the 30-40 percentiel whereas 33 puts you in the 75-85 percentile. Just send SAT subjects and ACT/</p>

<p>Thanks for the tips! I was actually debating whether or not to send ACT or SAT or both. And I’m planning to visit Emory, Tech, and UGA soon! :)</p>