Chances for UPenn, Yale, Brown, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Northwestern, and 7-year BS/MD Programs

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm am a Junior this year. I know my numbers are good, but will my ECs pull me down? </p>

<p>COLLEGES:
- Yale, UPenn, Brown and Cornell
- Duke, Northwestern, and Georgetown
- 7-year Med Programs (TCNJ, Drexel, Rutgers, Brown and GWU) </p>

<p>STATS:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT: 2400 (single-sitting and first time)</li>
<li>GPA: 96.86/100 (None of our classes are weighted)</li>
<li>No class rank, but our school's average GPA is around a 92. This is sent to colleges. </li>
<li>SAT II: Math: 800; Biology: 800; Chem: 780</li>
<li>PSAT: 237 (CR: 78; Math: 80; Writing: 79)</li>
</ul>

<p>CLASSES:
- Take IB Classes (similar program to AP)
- IB Chem HL; IB Biology HL, IB Math HL, and IB English HL (Junior and Senior Year)
- IB History SL and IB Spanish SL (Junior Year)
- Wont have scores for the first four before apps and won't be sending latter two</p>

<p>AWARDS:
- FFA Agriscience Fair NJ: 1st Place (2014)
- Nation-wide competition; will be going to nationals in the fall<br>
- Toshiba NSTA/Exploravision: Honorable Mention (2011 & 2014)
- Nation-wide competition; top 10% get honorable mention
- Statewide Science Fairs: 2nd Place (2014) and Honorable Mention (2013)
- Regional Science Fair: Honorable Mention (2013)
- Accepted into the New Jersey Governor's School of the Sciences
- Science research program at a college; only top 80 applicants selected in the state
- NHS & SHS inductee</p>

<p>IN-SCHOOL
- Student Council (Freshman year)
- Future Doctors of America (Co-Founder and Co-President)
- Future Farmers of America (First Place in the state)
- Academic Team (3 years)
- Varsity Tennis Team (Since freshman; will assume position of captain next season)
- National Honors Society (1 year)
- Spanish Honors Society (1 year)</p>

<p>OUT-OF-SCHOOL
- Private SAT Tutoring Business (1 year)
- Worked for and conducted an internship for a biochemistry business
- Helped them spread word about their product and planned how to spread their product into high schools in the<br>
state<br>
- Tennis Tutor (raised over a $1000 which I donated to a local charity to fund the education of orphan children in India)
- First Aid Squad (~6 by the time I apply to colleges)
- Shadow at a Private Pediatrics Practice (~40 hours)
- Tutor at a tutoring center (3 years)
- Temple Volunteer (3 years; ~200 hours)
- Hospital Volunteer (1 year; ~100 hours)
- Assisted Living Center Volunteer (~40 hours)</p>

<p>OTHER INFO:
- Asian Male
- Attend an extremely competitive public charter school (only 80 students per grade)
- Essays should be good
- Recs will be decent</p>

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<p>These are all fantastic schools and you have great chances at all of them. I think Georgetown is a high match, Nothwestern and Cornell are low reaches and the rest are reaches (except for 7 year med which I don’t know much about) but you should still apply. Good luck!</p>

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<p>How good would my chances be if did early decision for any of the following: Duke, UPenn, Cornell, Yale (Early Action) or Northwestern?</p>

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<p>If you’re smart enough to get a 2400, you should be smart enough to know that the following is true:

  1. You’re qualified for all the schools you mentioned.
  2. They reject 90 percent or more of qualified candidates.
  3. Some are easer to get into (Cornell, Northwestern) than others (Yale, Duke).
    I’m not sure what else you want anybody on this board to say.
    You’ve got good grades and scores, write some good essays, have some good interviews and see what happens.
    It’s pretty much a given you’ll get into somewhere “good”, will you get in everywhere? No, but so what.</p>
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<p>You’ll get into some and not into others.</p>

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<p>Legit academically, no standout ECs but ok- med ECs are sufficient for any BS/MD</p>

<p>If you applied ED at Duke, Cornell, UPenn (CAS), or Northwestern you would get in. Yale is a maybe but wouldn’t count on it. You should be able to get to interview stage at most accelerated BS/MDs if not all (NJMS, Drexel are guaranteed pretty much). Brown looks for different things in their selection process and tend to not like the typical academic asian type. Oh and they are an 8 yr program in case you weren’t aware. If you’re serious about BS/MD there’s a quite a few decent programs out there that you didn’t list. For one not sure if you knew (since you didn’t list it with the others) but Northwestern has a 7 year program, there’s also PSU/Jeff, BU, and UMiami. NU’s HPME is tough to crack but you should be able to get interviews at the latter three. </p>