<p>I am an middle-class asian.
interests: Biology, Biomedical Engineering.</p>
<p>Schoolwise Stats
GPA: 3.7/4.0 nonweighted
Rank: 13/587
Grades: All A's but 6 B's from Freshmen to Junior Year.</p>
<p>Course Load</p>
<h2>Junior Year (scores prediction for AP tests)</h2>
<p>AP Calculus AB (4)
AP English Lang and Comp (5)
AP US History (4)
Anatomy and Physiology
Symphonic Band (top band 5A division)
Spanish 3 HON
Physics HON</p>
<h2>Senior Year</h2>
<p>AP Calculus BC
AP Statistics
AP Environmental Science
AP English Lit
Symphonic Band (top band 5A division)
BCIS Dual Credit(req)
Humanities Dual Credit(req)
AP Physics C (possibility) </p>
<p>Tests
SAT: 690M, 560CR, 640W (will retake in Oct)
SAT II: taking in June, possible 800 for Math II, 750 for Biology
ACT: taking in September</p>
<p>EC
National Honors Society (2 years)
-President (1 year)
Student Council (3 years)
-Vice President (2 years)
Marching Band (4 years)
-Solo and Ensemble (2X 1st Division Solo and Ensemble)
-UIL Marching Contest (4X 1st Divisions)
Yearbook (2 years)
Newspaper (2 years)
-Junior Editor (1 year)
UIL Math Number Sense (3 years)
UIL Mathematics (2 years)
LULAC (2 years)
-Fund raising Chair (1 year)
Community Service (300+ hours)
-includes helping at hospitals, orphanages in Vietnam, American Red Cross, Adopt-a-Street</p>
<p>Hooks:
first generation college student
minority</p>
<p>Schools
1. Stanford
2. Rice
3. U of Chicago
4. Brown</p>
<p>I’d say you have a pretty good chance at getting into one of those colleges. Your GPA is high (imo) and your course load is pretty rigorous. I also admire all of your EC’s…pretty impressive list you got there.</p>
<p>If I were you I would just apply, surely you’d get accepted to at least one of the colleges on your top 4.</p>
<p>Do you live in Texas? UT is not a safety unless you are a Texas resident. I don’t see you getting into Stanford because it is super-selective. Although your ECs are good, it will be difficult to improve on your SAT scores to levels that will make you competitive.</p>
<p>Yeah, i’m automatically accepted into UT and TAMU under the 10% rule.
that was my first ever SAT which i did in sophomore year.
i did it w/o knowing anything because my counselor gave me a waiver and I was like “why not, its free”
so with 3 months of intense practice, i can and will raise my score +300 points.</p>
<p>Your ECs, Rank, and GPA are impressive. However, the SAT score could hurt you at top notch schools on your list. Try Testmasters-it helped me raise my score by 210 pts. BTW, what school do you go to? I am in Houston, TX as well.</p>
<ol>
<li>Rice (ED) Match</li>
<li>Stanford Reach As it is for everyone however considering your EC leadership and subtracting your asianess (lol I’m asian too) I would say 40%??? lol I know it’s an arbritrary number but Stanford is a crapshoot for everyone.</li>
<li>U Chicago match - however UC is getting more and more competitive, this could change.</li>
</ol>
<p>I would recommend Umich and JHu for Biomed, not so sure about straight up biology.
Also are you a URM??? or a Orm???</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t think your chances are great at Rice or at Stanford. UChicago, maybe/probably.
That SAT is really hurting you. If you can really improve it by 300 points, it would help a lot.
(You have 6 Bs and you’re still ranked 13th? Wow. At my school, the top ten are usually straight As…)
Anyway, congrats on being top 10%. ECs and rank ARE impressive, but to be very honest, you look like a lot of other applicants. Do you have any distinguishing awards that would make you stand out?</p>
<p>I’m in Houston too! Haha. Where do you guys go?</p>
<p>Maybe this is a totally obvious question, but where’s AP Bio? Why’d you take anatomy and physiology as a regular class (is it not offered advanced, or did you choose not to take it advanced)? Why are you taking APES senior year instead of a more rigorous science class? If your interest is really in science, you should take the most challenging science classes possible. Colleges will ask questions like that.</p>
<p>Also, why don’t you have many science-based EC’s? Band, newspaper, etc. are all good EC’s, and you’re clearly passionate about them, but if you want to go into the sciences, having something more science-based would help.</p>
<p>You might want to improve your national recognition (it’s not too late). You have a fair amount of leadership positions locally, but you’re not winning any awards nationally or regionally.</p>
<p>That said, you’re a first-generation college student, which helps a LOT. Are you sure you’d be happy going to Rice, even though if you get in ED you lose the opportunity to go to Stanford? I think that given your first-generation status, colleges will be more lenient on you, and I think you do have a shot at getting in early, especially if you pull up the SAT’s. Stanford is a pretty far reach. Chicago is still a reach, but it’s closer than Stanford.</p>