Chance Me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Chance Me for University of Denver, Villanova (legacy), Boston College, Georgetown, Tufts (possible ED), Penn (possible ED)- I still need to visit to decide which school I want to apply ED to, but more than likely it will be Tufts.

Major in Biochemistry, Psychology, or English- I want to do pre-med for sure though and eventually do a PhD-MD program and go into research.

Female, Caucasian, Unhooked
GPA: 4.35 Weighted, 4.0 Unweighted
ACT: 30- plan to retake, my goal is to get a 32
World History SAT Subject Test: 730
Plan to take Biology and French with Listening SAT II Tests

Top 5% of my class, school doesn’t rank.

I go to a small all-girls Catholic, Jesuit school.

Honors/ AP Courses:
Freshman Year: Honors Biology, Honors Algebra 1, Honors English 1
Summer: AP US Government and Politics
Sophomore Year: AP World History, Honors Chemistry, Honors Geometry, Honors British Literature, Honors French II
Junior Year: AP US History, AP Biology, Honors Algebra 2/Trig, AP Lang/American Lit, Honors French III, Advanced Journalism
Self Study: AP Environmental Science, AP Psychology, AP Statistics

Senior Year: AP European History, AP Physics, AP Chemistry, AP Literature, AP French Language and Culture, Honors PreCalculus

Extracurricular Activities:
Cross Country-JV: 10,11,12 (In 11th grade I received the team award for “dedication”, “hard work”, and “resilience”- don’t think this means anything though, but probably reflects what my coach/English teacher will write about in his recommendation)
Track and Field-JV:10, V:11,12
Link Crew: 11
French Honor Society: 11,12
National Honor Society: 11,12
Arrupe Club: 9,10,11,12
Campus Ministry (President-12): 9,10,11,12
Women in Science and Healthcare Club (Co-President-12): 11,12
Lead Editor for School Magazine: 9,10,11,12
Espirit de Corps: 12
Kairos leader: 12

100+ Service Hours: Ronald McDonald House, local elementary/middle school where I work with underprivileged kids, Homeless Shelter

I am planning to do a 120 hour internship at my local museum in either the Health, Zoology, or Earth Sciences where I would be doing research or take some classes in Science, Math, and English at a local community college.

Teacher Recommendations:
The first one is from my Chemistry and Biology teacher from sophomore and junior year. She also moderates WISH club which I spend several hours doing stuff for a week.

The second is from my English teacher from my junior year, He is also my Cross Country coach.

I am very close with both.

Personal Essay: I am going to write about my experience with my dad’s ALS during my sophomore, junior, and senior and how this inspired my passion and drive for medicine and challenged me to become a better person. I’m not sure about the direction of the essay but it should be really good.

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You mean ED II right? Because the deadline for ED I to Tufts has passed.

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I’m a junior.

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Try to get 34/35 for ACTS–Try to get as many 5’s as possible for your AP Tests.

You will need very strong math skills for Pre-Med–EC’s are important, but won’t substitute for strong standardized scores…Best of luck!

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Aim for 33+ on ACT, improve whatever you are best at (but math and science will help you the most if the applications for the schools you won’t take separate subject scores). Your ECs are pretty strong, though.

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I consider myself to be much better at language arts than math but I am good at science. Would it hurt me to study something in the humanities during undergraduate? If it’s any help, I am also considering trauma surgery as a possible career path and I would imagine that it involves less math once you are working than research. Is this true?

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You will get into University of Denver, no dout. I get hundreds of emails and speical invatations from them.
Boston College is sort of a low reach school. You have the grades for it, your test scores are in the lower 50%. I am applying to BC Early Action. For you, since you’re already in a calthoic school, it might up your chances.
For Villanova, again your stats are in the middle application pool, but since you’re a legacy that might help you.
Tufts is very similar to Villanova and BC for stats, but I think they are a little be harder to get into than the previous schools.

Gerogetown and UPenn are defintely reach schools (but every ivy is a reach school, and georgetown is basically ivy)

Have you considered Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Duke or Emory. Vandy and Emory have great pre-med programs, they are both within the top 20 in the nation.

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