Chances for Ivies/MIT/Stanford/Berkeley? =]

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Interested in: biological sciences/pre-med</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 4.92 (standard weighting scale)
Unweighted GPA: 3.96</p>

<p>Rank: 8/715 (top 1.1% weighted, top 4% unweighted)</p>

<p>SAT- Composite: 2220</p>

<p>PSAT- Composite: 225</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests: (scores coming soon)
Mathematics 2: ?
Physics: ?</p>

<p>ACT- Composite: 34 (first try)</p>

<p>AP Tests:
4 taken so far:
AP US History: 5
AP Physics B: ?
AP Macroeconomics: ?
AP US Government & Politics: ?</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
School newspaper-4 yrs, editor for 3 yrs
Class executive board-all 4 yrs, officer for 4 yrs
Tennis-4 yrs
Tutor
Piano</p>

<p>Employment/Experience:
lab technician at university
100+ hrs hospital volunteer work
20+ hrs volunteer work at local cancer organization
babysitting</p>

<p>Awards:
National Honor Society
National Merit recognition
Published in A Celebration of Young Poets - Fall 2007
A-Honor Roll for all of hs
Piano awards</p>

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<p>grades r good but ur ecs fail to stand out.</p>

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<p>i heard cal is a premed killer.....</p>

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<p>MIT,Stanford, Ivies=crapshoot, so best of luck to that
Berkeley= low reach/high match. If you're a cali resident, i think berkely would be a high match.</p>

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<p>what other schools could I look at? how should I improve my ec's? btw, I am not a Cali resident... lol.</p>

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<p>Well for MIT you really need to show a passion for Science/Math/Engineering, you need to enter science competitions, compete in Academic Olympiads and what not.</p>

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<p>I think that you don't show enough passion for the area you are trying to pursue in.</p>

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<p>I think Cal is then a Low Reach for you. Their OOS admissions process is killer.</p>

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<p>ur ECs are good but ivies usually look "for something diffrent" you wud need a killer essay to get accepted, something that makes you stand out.
you have a few awards too so that good...scores and grades are good...
take a few more APs tho. most of the ppl who get in to MIT or stanford have as many as 10 APs, so if ur a junior do some more nxt yr.
Good luck!</p>

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<p>I'm taking 5 AP classes next year and 6 AP tests (AP Eng Lang/Comp; AP Chem; AP Psych or Stats; AP Spanish; AP Calc BC)... oh, and I'm going to be a senior. that's probably important =]</p>

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<p>and I went to NYLF-Med too. sorry, completely forgot about that</p>