<p>I want to go into pre-med and I don't know exactly what college that would be, but I know I want to major in biology and minor in psychology. I'm trying to decide if I should apply to Brown ED or Cornell ED. I will be happy at either university. Please tell me what you honestly think my chances are. (Man... am I depressed).</p>
<p>Class rank: 5/551
GPA: 4.0 unweighted. 4.4 or 4.5 weighted (didn't get report card yet).
Recs: 2 somewhere between good and stellar. Same from the guidence counsilor.
Essay: Still not sure.
SAT I: 680 Critical Reading, 670 Math, 660 Writing. Total of 2010 (1340 old). I'm pretty sure I can raise my score at least 100 points.
SAT II: 750 Biology E, 730 Math IIC, 690 US History.</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:
-Played Saxophone in Marching Band freshman year.
-Drum line (pit) freshman year; won high pit in Drum line (means best pit in our American Drum line Association Division); played xylophone and vibraphone.
-Orchestra from sophomore to senior year. Lettered in orchestra.
-Tae Kwon Do four years (1-2 hours a week); black belt by end of senior year.
-Founder and President of Math Club junior year. President senior year.
-Founder and President of Mu Alpha Theta. President senior year.
-Vice-president of Breakers Club (break dancing) junior and senior year.
-Treasurer of ASU junior year. Elected Secretary for senior year.
-CSF all four years.</p>
<p>Volunteer Work
-200 hours at hospital
-Tutor math 4 hours a week for 1 year. 144 hours total volunteering.
-10+ hours feeding the homeless.</p>
<p>Summer Programs
-COSMOS Mathematics Course.
-Summer@Brown Tissue Transplant Course.</p>
<p>Awards
-Honor Roll
-Honors Escort
-1st place on American Mathematics Competition (regional)
-History Day finalist (state level maximum for websites)
-Science Olympia winner. (regional)</p>
<p>the only concern is that you have such a high GPA and ur sat IIs look nice, but ur sat score is kinda low for both places. I would get about another 50-60 points on that and you would probably be fine.</p>
<p>How can you be a founder of Mu Alpha Theta? Don't teachers usually bring that into the school?</p>
<p>if applying to cornell to become a doctor or whatever profession you said, you definitely want to apply to the college of arts and sciences. Everything looks great except the SAT scores. Get them up and you'll be competitive. Right now, though, with those scores i'm not sure you have a real shot, especially because Cornell's ED program really doesn't offer too much of an advantage to its applicants.</p>
<p>you want to be a doctor? try the bio M SAT II. it's (slightly) more relevant and usually easier than E.</p>
<p>also, you may want to consider self studying the ap psych exam. although colleges wouldn't have any official verification or anything, you can start pursuing your interest while demonstrating your ambition at the same time.</p>
<p>730 math IIc isn't that good for cornell, people that go there tell me that you should try to get like 780-800 for cornell. You do need to raise your SAT scores to at least above 2100ish. If you can do that then you should have a good chance, especially at ED.</p>
<p>Thanks for your responses everyone. Do you know any other schools that will be a good match for me? Any schools known for great science departments within my reach? I'm looking for a small to medium size school. I don't want to aim too high and fall flat on my face.</p>
<p>Actually I do think you have a decent chance for Cornell. You're only 40 or less points from 700's on the SAT's...I don't know if that matters much to them but just from a layman's standpoint if you can get SAT's up those 30 or 40 points it could make the difference, 3 scores in the 700's beats 3 in the high 600's trivial as that seems. And you are top 1%. Other strong science schools: CMU, JHU, Case Western, Rochester.</p>