Chances for getting into an Ivy or a top 25 school

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I posted this in the columbia forum but noticed that there was a separate forum for chances. </p>

<p>I am a high school junior at one of the better Nevada public highschools (we don't have many good schools, I know). Well I always planned on attending the local university (it isn't good or bad) for pre-med as I would literally be paid to go to college. Another, reason was for was being close to my family. My dad's health has been worsening and we are not being able to deal with the rising health care costs. So, my parents decided to move to a big city (New York) as treatment is cheaper there.
I always wanted to go to a IVY so Columbia Engineering for biomedical engineering is my first choice. Sorry to bore you but here are my stats:</p>

<p>General Stats:
Southeast Asian
Female
income < 40000 as father sick
Rank 1/512</p>

<p>Freshmen Year:
4.0 UW GPA
3/6 honors courses: English, Formal Geometry, and Honors Biology.
Origami Club
Book Club
Asian Pacific Islanders Club
Journalism Staff: Reporter</p>

<p>Sophomore year:
4.0 UW GPA
4/6 Honors courses: English, Algebra 2, Honors Chemistry, and AP Euro
Origami Club
Asian Pacific Islander's Club
World Language Club
Journalism: Columnist and Senior Reporter
Volunteered at an NGO for three weeks in Bangladesh
AP Euro~3 (not impressive, I know but didn't have much time to study as I was out of the country and only 40% of the sophomore actually passed)</p>

<p>Junior year:
First semester 4.0 UW GPA
6/7 Honors couses: AP English Language, AP Spanish Language, AP US History, AP Chemistry, Trig/Precalculus, Honors Physics
Academic Olympics
Asian Pacific Islander's Club (Officer)~considerable involvement including raising money for scholarships
Art Club
Amnesty International
National Honor Society
Externship with a local pediatrician
Volunteer at a Hospital
Nominated to go to National Leadership Conference (sth like that but its really prestigious)
Hoping for 4s or 5s on all of the AP exams except for Spanish. I switched over to AP Spanish after first semester as the lower level spanish class was too easy for me. I am the second person to make such a huge switch in the history of our close to 150 year old school</p>

<p>SAT scores:
Didn't get them yet but project about 2100+
SAT IIs projections
Math II~ 750 +
Chemistry~ 750+
Spanish~ 700+</p>

<p>Summer:
Taking Calc I course at univeristy
Volunteering at hospital and public library</p>

<p>Senior year:
GPA: Most likely 3.8+ UW
AP English Lit
AP Spanish (just repeating the class to keep in touch with the language)
AP Government
AP Bio
AP Physics C
Calc II and III and spanish conversation at local uni.
Externship with nephologist or engineer
Volunteer at local hospital, etc. </p>

<p>Work Experience: Babysitting </p>

<p>Other E/C
No sports--seriouly suck at them. But I do yoga, not competitively though
I have been blessed with some artistc talent which sadly I have not put into much use. Only took one semester of art class during HS but will it be ok if i send a portfolio? Don't how to do that</p>

<p>I speak four different languages fluently:
English
Bengali (had some formal training)
Hindi
Urdu
Can speak and understand Spanish to some extent
Also, I can read Arabic. Not much use as I don't understand it. </p>

<p>My E/C aren't outstanding. I didn't a whole lot of chance during freshmen and sophomore year as didn't have the transport. I am seriously killing myself this year to get some decent stuff on my application. </p>

<p>Very long, I know. But if anyone actually read through it, please give me some feedback. Thanks</p>

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<p>sorry about your Dad</p>

<p>You will definetly get into a TOP 25 skool</p>

<p>especially considering your domestic circumstances and your grades</p>

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<p>Wow, you will definitely have one of the top apps. If you want to develop some diversity in your application, I recommend managing a team your senior year or something of the sort, you're definitely in a Top 25 school though, no question.</p>

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<p>wow u hav a great app... just the not honors classes, in fresh and soph year might hurtt...</p>

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<p>thanks for all of your responses.
laxgirl07~ freshmen year I had three honors classes: english honors, biology honors (we have a normal one also), and formal geometry (formal is honor; we have a normal one also). the others i had were spanish, PE, and journalism.
sophomore year I had four honors: AP Euro, honors english, honors chem (we have a regular one, again), and Algebra 2 (also honors). the others were spanish and journalism.</p>

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<p>sristi:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Match (out of state)</p>

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<p>F0r Columbia and other ivies, shoot fo0r an SAtI 0f at least 2250.</p>

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<p>and for an added kick talk about your dads health issues in your essays somehow, sympathy is golden.</p>

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<p>hey. anyone else? some more evaluations please!!</p>

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<p>Just as an update, I ended up going to Penn for bioengineering, graduated and am in my second year of medical school in Boston. </p>

<p>It’s crazy how our experiences are immortalized on the internet…really interesting to read what I wrote as a high school junior. Lots of ups and downs since the last time I posted on this thread (almost 8 years ago!) but to all the prospective high schoolers, everything works out. Good luck with results coming out this week! </p>

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<p>For engineering at top 25 schools, you do need better scores. Now it is totally speculative as you don’t have real score yet. So don’t worry about your chance for now and focus on the test preparation. Post again once you have some real scores.</p>

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<p>@billcsho , the thread was created 8 years ago The OP was giving us an update lol </p>

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<p>Thank you for posting your update…really cool to see how well you’ve done! :D</p>

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<p>LOL. My bad. I was reading it on my tablet and did not notice it was an old thread as it shows on top of the list.</p>