chances for rice/ut eng. honors/jhu

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Im in top ten percent so i know ill get into UT Austin but I don't know about the engineering honors program. I'm also not sure about Rice or John Hopkins. I'm hoping to major in bioengineering or biomedical engineering. Here are my stats:</p>

<p>white male
decent texas school
102 GPA (ranked #5 out of about 500)</p>

<p>ACT: 33
SAT:2140 (760 math, 720 writing, 660 critical reading)
SAT IIs: math 1c 750, math 2c 660, chemistry 710
PSAT: 210, will most likely be commended, not national merit scholar</p>

<p>AP classes and score on AP exams:
English comp and rhet. 4
Chemistry 3</p>

<p>AP classes im taking next year:
English Lit.
Biology
Physics C
Environmental Science
Calculus
Statistics</p>

<p>I'll have 30 hours of credit from a commmunty college by the time i graduate.</p>

<p>Other stuff:
4 years in student council, senior class VP
NHS president (over 150 members) i have to organize 2 large service projects next year, one will be countywide
3 years in UIL math and science club competitions (will prob be an officer next year)
football freshmen year, soccer sophomore year
best of show in county science fair in 9th grade (qualified and went to houston science fair)
2 years in PALs (another community service type class that you have to be selected for)</p>

<p>what are my chances and what should i work on? thanks.</p>

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<p>oh yea...
merit awards
PAP English (9th grade)
PAP Geometry (9th)
World Geog. Adv. (9th)
PAP Biology (9th)
PAP Alg 2 (10th)
PAP English 2 (10th)</p>

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<p>hump de bump</p>

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<p>Rice and JHU are basically matches. JHU BME would be a reach though, its very competitive. I dont know how the honors program at UT works.</p>

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<p>also it is Johns Hopkins.</p>

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<p>good point- they make a huge point about that on campus tours there</p>

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<p>wow ive looked at johns hopkins dozens of times and the s never registered. everyone here in texas just says john hopkins. thanks for the input.</p>