Chances for a hopeful high school student :)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>Hi!! I'm a junior at a highly-ranked public school (# 2 in state) in MA and I've been really interested in JHU for a while :) I'm pretty sure it will be a reach for me but I'd like to get some feedback from others</p>

<p>AP Classes- Biology- 5, APUSH-4.
Next year i'm taking AP Chem, AP Composition, and AP Euro
and senior year I plan on taking 4-5 AP's
so that's 9 AP's overall--most rigorous courseload offered
everything not AP was an honors class</p>

<p>UW GPA- 3.7, Weighted- 4.24 <Hopefully with my increase in AP classes, both will go up!
I know the UW is rather low, I had a tough time adjusting to AP classes sophomore year :/</p>

<p>ACT- 30 (I plan on re-taking this junior year)
SAT- haven't taken yet- will this year
SAT II- 710 on Biology (I'm going to take more next year)</p>

<p>Extra-curriculars </p>

<p>Violin:
I am in school orchestra (first chair). Grades 5-present
New England Conservatory youth orchestra. Grade 10-present
I've taken private lessons from grade 4-present</p>

<p>Piano Lessons: Kindergarten-present. </p>

<p>Guitar: I teach myself? I've played for 4 years. It's more of a leisurely thing so I'm not sure if it counts </p>

<p>Sports: I play tennis in the spring and Field Hockey in the fall </p>

<p>Clubs: Microfinance Club- I'm Secretary
Leo Club, Math Club, Peer Tutoring, UNITE (leadership)</p>

<p>I am on student council!</p>

<p>Volunteer Stufff: I volunteer at a hospital 4 hours a week during the summer and I occasionaly go to Project Just Because. I also Tutor 150+ hours so far</p>

<p>Leadership: I'm on student council and Secretary of Microfinance club. I was chosen to attend the START leadership conference and won the Peter J. Baltren award there. I was chosen to be a part of the club UNITE in my school which is another leadership club </p>

<p>I plan on majoring in Biology/microbiology/maybe neuroscience??? not sure, haha.</p>

<p>If anyone has any other ideas on schools to apply to they'd be much appreciated!! I'm afraid I may not have enough safety schools/match schools. Any major flaws I should work on in my application?
Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>you should definitely consider Duke, Rice, Emory, WashU, and Carnegie Mellon as well!</p>

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<p>^ I’ll definitely consider those. Thanks for the suggestions!</p>

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<p>UMich and UC Berkeley also have excellent biology programs, and you’re likely to get into UMich with your stats. Vanderbilt too has excellent sciences.</p>

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<p>Thank you very much :slight_smile: I’ll look into those as well! How do you think my chances are at Johns Hopkins?</p>