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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chances as a somewhat belated Christmas Present? </p>

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<p>Ethnicity: Asian</p>

<p>college plans: pre-med and biomedical engineering</p>

<p>home state: Maryland</p>

<p>Full-IB diploma
GPA: 3.83 (UW) / 4.55(W)
SAT: 630 CR, 730 W, 770 M
Rank: 27/412
SAT II: Math 2 (770), Bio-E (680)*
APs: Calc AB (4), Physics B (4)
IBs: French B SL (4)</p>

<p>ECs:
Swim team: clubs and school (all throughout high school)
Science Academic Team: 12th grade
Academic Team: 11-12th grade
National Honor Society: 11-12
Science National Honor Society: 11-12
National Math Honor Society: 11-12
National English Honor Society: 12**
National Society of High School Scholars
French club
Chinese School (2008 graduate)
Clarinet and Alto Sax: since 4th grade
Tri-M Music Honor Society: was nominated but induction ceremony is not until April</p>

<p>Awards:
Highest Honor roll award (from my school): all throughout high school
Johns Hopkins CTY state award: 7th grade</p>

<p>Work Experience:
Internship at Qiagen: 10th grade
Internship at NCI: 11th grade</p>

<p>Misc:
Did a poster on my research at NCI and presented it during a convention held at the Bethesda campus</p>

<p>Used that same research and wrote a report which was entered in the Intel STS</p>

<p>IB extended essay on ethics of human embryonic stem cell research</p>

<p>Classes:
all honor classes except the electives, which don't have any levels
-IB English HL: A
-IB Math HL: B***
-IB Chem HL: A
-IB French SL: A
-AP Physics B: A
-IB Comp Sci SL: B</p>

<p>Senior Year (doing pretty well so far):
-IB English HL
-IB Math HL
-IB Chem HL
-IB History of Americas
-IB Theory of Knowledge
-AP Physics C***
-Student Service Learning
-Concert Band</p>

<p>Community Service:
biggest ones are: SAT Math teacher and SAT CR & W Teacher's Assistant</p>

<p>many other small ones:
-Science Fair judge
-Carnival set up
-Chinese School service</p>

<p>*Due to my school's weird scheduling system, I could not fit an AP Bio class in my schedule and IB Bio isn't enough for SAT II. So I studied the whole curriculum by myself (yes this is true), and my teacher told me a 680 is very respectable especially since I studied independently. I will also be taking the AP Bio test in May 2010, studying on my own again.</p>

<p>**The National English Honor Society was not available in my school until my senior year</p>

<p>***IB Math HL is, according to my teacher, the hardest math class offered in the county and also possibly THE hardest overall class in the county. Same goes for AP physics C, but it's probably not as hard as IB Math HL.</p>

<p>Schools:
-UPenn
-Wash. U. in St. Louis
-UChicago
-Duke
-Johns Hopkins
-UVA
-UNC Chapel Hill
-Michigan
-Cornell
-Emory
-Northwestern
-U. of Wash.
-UMD, college park</p>

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<p>Maths HL is insanely difficult as well as Physics HL. I was going to take the harder Maths, but the only teacher qualified retired, hence stuck with SL. IB Bio is sufficient for the SAT II if you do HL… some of my friends took it and got 700+, but 680 self study is commendable. </p>

<p>You have very strong Objective stats and diverse ECs that show commitment.
I will chance you on the schools that I know.</p>

<p>-UPenn- Reach: they have a very strong BioMed department, its difficult.
-UChicago- Low Reach: no engineering, mind you
-Duke- High Match
-Johns Hopkins- High Match
-Michigan- Match
-Cornell- Low Reach
-Northwestern- Match</p>

<p>Good Luck! You have a great chance where you applying.</p>

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<p>-UPenn - reach
-Wash. U. in St. Louis - match
-UChicago - match
-Duke - match
-Johns Hopkins - high match
-UVA - match
-UNC Chapel Hill - match
-Michigan - match
-Cornell - reach
-Emory - don’t know enough to chance, sorry!
-Northwestern - match
-U. of Wash. - don’t know enough to chance, sorry!
-UMD, college park - match</p>

<p>Good Luck! You’re stats are really impressive and IB is a tough/recognized program. Your EE sounds really interesting, btw :). </p>

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<p>thanks everyone. And yes, Math HL is HARD. The class itself is torture, but our teacher says we’ll thank her once the exam rolls by and in college. I only hope she’s right.</p>

<p>Physics HL is probably the hardest IB exam in our school, but I don’t take it because our Physics teacher sucks. His class is TOO easy, and everyone ends up failing the exams. Last year, he even PREDICTED that everyone was going to get 1s and 2s.</p>

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<p>i can only chance you for the schools I know…
UPenn-mid-reach
-Wash. U. in St. Louis-match
-UChicago-high match
-Duke-high match
-Johns Hopkins-reach
-UVA-match
-UNC Chapel Hill
-Michigan-match
-Cornell
-Emory-match
-Northwestern
-U. of Wash.
-UMD, college park</p>

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<p>i thought your stats were quite impressive and so were your ECs. best of luck!
-UPenn - reach
-Wash. U. in St. Louis - match
-UChicago - match
-Duke - match
-Johns Hopkins - low reach
-UVA - match
-UNC Chapel Hill - match
-Michigan - match
-Cornell - low reach
-Emory - match
-Northwestern - match
-U. of Wash. - match
-UMD, college park - in</p>

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<p>i woild say you have pretty good chance at most of them except for Upenn and Uchigaco especially Upenn they are very selective and not that easy…Good luck though </p>

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<p>-UPenn - reach
-Wash. U. in St. Louis - low reach
-UChicago - low reach
-Duke - match
-Johns Hopkins - low reach
-UVA - match
-UNC Chapel Hill - match
-Michigan - match
-Cornell - high match
-Emory - match
-Northwestern - match
-U. of Wash. - match</p>

<p>please chance me back!</p>

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<p>idk about IB Bio in other schools but all of our IB classes are pretty bad here, primarily because this program came to our school like 5 years ago and all of our teachers are still kinda getting used to teaching it.</p>

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<p>upenn=reach
duke=reach
unc=high match, low reach
uchich=reach
johns hopkins=low reach
cornell=low reach
northwestern=low reach
others=matches or lower
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<p>reaches: penn, duke, uofchic
lower reaches: cornell (depends a lot on school), hopkins, northwestern
matches for the rest! good luck!</p>

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<p>Low Reach
Good Luck!:)</p>

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<p>great list of schools. another very good pre-med school is Holy Cross-easier to get into than Duke, Hopkins.</p>

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<p>true but at this point I’m not 100% sure I want to go to med school, so I need schools that are not strong a only one particular field of study. But I know I’m going to do engineering as my undergrad degree.</p>

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<p>-UPenn - reach
-Wash. U. in St. Louis - low reach
-UChicago - low reach
-Duke - Low Reach
-Johns Hopkins - High Match
-UVA - match
-UNC Chapel Hill - Low Match
-Michigan - low match
-Cornell - high match
-Emory - match
-Northwestern - Match
-UMD: CP - In
-U. of Wash. - In</p>

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<p>lol, all reach?</p>