Chances of sophie davis or brown's 7 year program

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m an Indian child from NY, and I’m currently a Junior in HS. My financial situation is in the upper middle class.

PSAT: 1250
SAT (no essay): 1450

ACT (no essay): TBA

extracurriculars:
-National Honor Society Member
-Spanish Honor Society Member
-Science Honor Society Member
-Math Honor Society Member
-Social Studies Honor Society Member
-Pre-Med Club Member
-Model Congress (Debate Club) Member
-Ethnic Awareness Club Member
-Marching Band Member
-Volunteered at a hospital for about 100 hours: 2017
-Volunteers at a church every week for 3-4 hours: Present

AP Physics: TBA
APUSH: TBA

Regents:

Algebra: 90
Living Environment (Biology): 93
Geometry: 100
Global Studies: 96
Earth Science: 98
Spanish 3: 94

Subject Tests:
-Plans on taking:
Physics
Math 1
Chem

GPA (as of right now):

Unweighted: 94.5
Weighted: 101.3

Other Qualifications:
-Deeply passionate about medicine and being a doctor, particularly a surgeon
-Honor Roll Student since 9th grade
-Accepted into a summer program for Columbia University
-Member of the National Society of High School Scholars
-Selected to be my school’s representative for the National Youth Leadership Forum for Medicine
-More than 25 hours of Tutoring for various subjects

The Plan: Become either a doctor or a position in law enforcement (Officer, Detective, etc.,)

Majors: Trying for Biochem, Bio, Criminal Justice or ideally a combined BS/MD or BS/DO.

Reaches:
Sophie Davis
Cornell
Brown
Berkeley
Johns Hopkins
UCLA

Ranges:
Stony Brook
Geneseo
NYU
NYIT
Notre Dame

Safeties:
Hofstra
Adelphi
Boston College
Binghamton
Fordham
UCSB

I need to know what chances I have of getting into Sophie Davis, which is my top school. Also, does anyone know if the SAT and ACT for Sophie need to be with or without the essay?

Thank you.

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Nothing extraordinary about your application. Seems pretty average compared to other chance threads on here. I would say that UCSB and BC are not safeties, most likely ranges, given that you’re out of state and your SAT score isn’t super high.

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what would a better SAT score look like? and what would I need for my app to be a little bit more extraordinary?
Thanks for the honest input btw

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“what would a better SAT score look like?”

For an upper middle class NY Asian STEM student? For your reaches, 1560-1600.

“and what would I need for my app to be a little bit more extraordinary?”

Some indication that you really have a passion for STEM and don’t just like the idea of being an MD.

That would include:

Taking advanced science and math classes.
If offered by your HS: APBio, CalcBC, AP Physics C M and E&M
If not offered by your HS, by self studying those APs or by taking classes at universities nearby.
After BC, wouldn’t hurt to go on to Multivariable or further.
Columbia SHP was a nice start, but not going beyond that doesn’t help.

Research at University or Med School preferably resulting in a project submitted to a major science fair that wins semi-finalist or higher.

Participating in (and hopefully doing very well at) things like Science Bowl, Science Olympiads, Math competitions, etc.

As an upper middle class Asian, particularly having been exposed to SHP, the presumption will be that you are aware of and have access to the enormous range of resources for curious STEM kids in NY. Not taking advantage of them when so many other do will not help your chances at highly selective schools.

Would add Binghamton to @GoBears2023 list of not safeties.

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My current schedule is like this:
Band, Chem R, Chem R, Spanish 4H, AP Physics, AP Physics, English R, APUSH, Algebra 2 H.
Next year I plan on taking AP Bio, AP Phys C, and AP Calc AB, AP Gov and maybe AP Psych.

Does this change anything?

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@hipleasehelp

Courses that you take won’t be a major factor. From what I can see, you will definitely have the rigor that they want, which is good. However, this won’t change too much in terms of your chances of getting in super reaches since almost all seniors take challenging courseloads like this, so you would just be average.

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“Deeply passionate about medicine and being a doctor, particularly a surgeon
-Honor Roll Student since 9th grade
-Accepted into a summer program for Columbia University
-Member of the National Society of High School Scholars
-Selected to be my school’s representative for the National Youth Leadership Forum for Medicine
-More than 25 hours of Tutoring for various subjects”

Honor roll - don’t put this on the common app
Summer Program at Columbia - intriguing, which one?
NSHSS - Please, I’m begging you, DO NOT PUT THIS ON THE COMMON APP
NYLF - This email is given to a lot of students. If you score I think in the 90th percentile SAT / PSAT wise, they send you this.
Tutoring - not enough hours to make colleges think this is significant

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The summer program was for neuroscience but I couldn’t attend due to the enormously high price. Not to sound arrogant, but why shouldn’t I put the Honor Roll and the NSHSS on the App?

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NSHSS is pretty much a scam that makes you pay, but doesn’t really give any value.

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Your application doesn’t have an aspect that will make the readers say wow. Don’t get me wrong. You are clearly a competitive candidate, but you need to demonstrate something else to make them say yes, and that is outside the boundary of just stats, meaning ecs, Letters of rec, personal statement etc…more subjective strengths is the term we’re looking for.

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What are some potential aspects that would give my application this “wow” factor?
By the way, these are great suggestions, thank you for them.