<p>Please note that I am not yet a senior. I am making a few assumptions here, all of which are in my extracurriculars.</p>
<p>I want to study Biology or Biomedical Engineering.
General Information:
High School: One of the top 20 in the US.
Sex: Female
Location: NY
Ethnicity: White</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: approximately 90 (it's very good in context of the school I go to)
Rank: School does not rank.
SAT: 2180 (CR: 700, M: 720, W: 760 [12 Essay])
SAT II's: 800 Math IIC, 720 US History, 760 Bio M
ACT: 32</p>
<p>Significant Extracurriculars:
Math Team: 4 years (Captain during Jr. Year)
Engineering Team: 3 years
School Newspaper: 4 years; Positions held: Staff writer, Senior staff writer, Publisher (basically 2nd in command :D )
Internship at a prestigious cancer research lab: Spent over 360 hours here during my sophomore year summer, and will spend all of my junior year summer there as well. I will probably publish a couple papers this summer.
Chorus: 3 years
Sports: I've done sports every season of every year in high school (mostly track/cross country)</p>
<p>Significant Awards:
- Likely National Merit Semifinalist (PSAT: 224)
- School Fellowship ($3,500): This is one of the things that makes my application unique. The fellowship that I won is awarded to one student in my grade every year, and it's extremely competitive. My fellowship has a lot to do with my focus on cancer research, and I will be going to the pacific rim to pursue it.
- I will be applying to the Siemens-Westinghouse competition.</p>
<p>Schools that I'm interested in:<a href="This%20list%20does%20not%20include%20every%20school%20I'm%20considering--just%20the%20ones%20I'd%20like%20to%20be%20chanced%20for">/U</a>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (legacy)
University of Pennsylvania
Duke University
Brown University
Cornell University
Rice University
Tufts University</p>
<p>i think you have a good shot at your last 3, but you'd definitely have a shot at MIT if you display your passion for bio/cancer enough! and certainly 360 hours at internship is pretty awesome. Penn, duke, and brown are probably a bit of a reach, but apply anyways and spend time on your app--you never know!:)</p>
<p>I had a profile very similar to yours (yours is somewhat better), and I was waitlisted at Brown and Cornell. I think you have a very good shot at these two. Not sure about others</p>
<p>gpa not THAT good unless it like puts you in the (approx, I know you dont rank) top decile, and being from NY doesn't help =/</p>
<p>Good EC/Awards, Decent scores (SATIIs strong, SATI/ACT average for those schools) Def apply for the top schools (brown, duke, mit, upenn) though, scores aren't everything and you have a good shot. Just that NY and super competitive school =/ Is it private or public? Public probably hurts, private probably helps</p>
<p>It's a private school. I've seen the data and our average admit to Cornell, for instance, has a GPA of something like 88 or 89. Maybe this will help everyone understand how difficult the grading is :)</p>
<p>Also, I forgot to note that I will be applying to MIT EA and Brown ED.</p>
<p>Thanks for the comments, everyone. Any more opinions are welcome!</p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (legacy) 30%
University of Pennsylvania 40%
Duke University 10%
Brown University 50%
Cornell University 50%
Rice University 70%
Tufts University 70%</p>
<p>Massachusetts Institute of Technology (legacy) - i'm not exactly sure given your legacy (i don't know if MIT counts that)
University of Pennsylvania - reach (for everybody)
Duke University - mid-reach
Brown University - slight reach
Cornell University - match
Rice University - match
Tufts University - match</p>
<p>tufts syndrome is dangerous...beware of that...ur SAT is kinda low mite wanna bring that up....a lot of reaches....but every1 summed up everything pretty well for u</p>