Chances for some far reaches...

<p>Gender: Female
Race: Taiwanese (a disadvantage)
High School: competitive public
GPA: 3.8/4.0
1st decile (school does not rank)</p>

<p>I've taken the most rigorous courses that my school offers.</p>

<p>SAT: 1950 (needs to be raised i know i know! ><)
no SAT IIs yet</p>

<p>ECs: (one's i've been doing constantly)</p>

<p>volunteer at my local hospital since sophomore year (> 230 hrs)
volunteer at my chinese school (>100 hours)
NHS
Latin Club
Multicultural Issues Club
tutoring at my elementary school (>50 hours)
step team for 2 years</p>

<p>awards:
National Latin exam "magna cum laude" two years</p>

<p>schools:</p>

<p>Umass amherst
U of Connecticut
BU
U of Rochester w/ or w/o REMS
Tufts
Carnegie Mellon
Johns Hopkins w/ or w/o BME
Brown w/ or w/o PLME and would ED increase my chances???
MIT</p>

<p>bump, anyone?</p>

<p>oh and i also play the violin (6 years)</p>

<p>feedback… anyone??</p>

<p>I’m guessing that the first four would be matches, and the last five would be reaches. ED does have a higher acceptance rate, but there is still a pretty high chance you can be deferred. I don’t know what REMS is, is it like a BS/MD program?</p>

<p>You said it yourself: SATs. Raise them.</p>