Chances at Johns Hopkins, Rice, and others?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm currently a middle class student of North African origin living in Austin, TX. I was wondering what my chances were at these schools:</p>

<p>UT-Austin
JHU
NYU
Stanford
Rice
Emory
Cornell
Baylor</p>

<p>GPA: 3.86 (unwieghted)
3.92 (weighted)</p>

<p>Rank: 31/474 (top 6.5%)</p>

<p>coursework has included all pre-ap classes possible along with AP Human Geography (3), WHAP (4), APUSH (5), and AP Lang (5).
senior coursework includes:
AP English Lit
AP Calculus BC
AP Statistics
AP Biology
Pre-AP Spanish III
Video Game Tech</p>

<p>SAT: 2100 (750 Reading, 690 Math, 660 Writing)
ACT: 29 composite (not gonna use this)
SAT II's: taking bio, math level 2 and world history in december</p>

<p>EC's:
-JV/Varsity Soccer for 3 yrs
-HOSA (secretary) senior year
-UIL Academics Current Events for 2 yrs
-Science Fair freshman year (advanced to state)
-Science Olympiad senior year
-AP Ambassadors senior year
-NHS senior year</p>

<p>i've been on the academic honor roll all of high school of course and was recognized at the regional science fair thus advancing to state in my freshman year, i have also won awards at district competition for UIL Current Events (6th place my junior year at one competition and 2nd at the same one this year) and i am an AP scholar with honor.</p>

<p>Volunteer Work (200+ hrs)
-helped repaint house working with muslim-jewish interfaith organization
-led youth prayers during holy month of ramadan
-helped teachers of a religious part-time school with students
-worked at library with shelving books, etc.</p>

<p>I am also teaching at a Weekend Islamic school started by my parent. This is a paying job.</p>

<p>Also not mentioned is the fact that from the summer following my freshman year until now i have been in a program where students memorize the entire Quran (Koran). This is a major commitment that takes several years and I have had to attend classes throughout the year and all during the summer. It is especially tough considering I play soccer and explains why i couldnt be as involved with ec's until my senior year when i finished memorizing.</p>

<p>I want to major in public health and become an epidemiologist. I have a great interest in diseases and am inspired by Richard Preston's work, who I plan to write an essay about.</p>

<p>My recs are solid and my essays should be as well</p>

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<p>buuuuuuuuuump</p>

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<p>JHU: Reach
Rice: Reach
UT-Austin: Safety
Cornell: Reach
Stanford: Reach
Emory: Match
NYU: Low match
Baylor: Safety</p>

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<p>are those reaches general for everyone or is there some weakness(es) that make those schools a reach, and if so what are they?</p>

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<p>UT-Austin - Safety
JHU - High match
NYU - Match
Stanford - Reach
Rice - Low Reach
Cornell - Low Reach
Baylor - Safety</p>

<p>Being african american definitely helps a lot. I didn’t read your ECs and that block of text too closely but you seem like a good candidate with good scores, gpa and ECs and since your black you should be a candidate for mostly any school except maybe some ivies.</p>

<p>Chance back?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1413462-3-4-gpa-1960-sat-chance-me.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1413462-3-4-gpa-1960-sat-chance-me.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Stanford, Cornell, Rice, JHU are “reach-for-anyone” schools, but if I had to distinguish between reach levels, here’s the breakdown of “reach-for-anyone” schools:</p>

<p>Stanford: Reach
Cornell: Low reach
JHU: Low reach
Rice: Low reach</p>

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<p>so by low reach you mean about 25-50% chance?</p>