Chances (Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, Wellesley, etc)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Asian (South Korean and Bangladeshi) female, born in New York, schooled in Texas</p>

<p>Intended Major: Philosophy AND/OR Women's Studies (Pre med route)</p>

<p>SAT: 2230 780M/750C/700W
SAT II: 760 Math II, 730 Biology E, 720 Literature</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 5.7826 out of 6.0
Unweighted GPA: 4.0 out of 4.0
Rank: 4 out of 567</p>

<p>Public High School
--Member of its Medical Sciences Academy
--Most Rigorous Curriculum</p>

<p>Awards:
--1st Place National Champion, Health Occupations Students of America (11)
--2nd place National Runner Up, Health Occupations Students of America (10)
--National Merit Semifinalist
--Houston Youth Symphony
--1st Place HMTA Jazz Pop Festival
--99% Texas Music Theory Exam
--1st place District Finalist, Computer Science
--Hugh O'Brian Youth Region Leadership Conference
--Highest Average in grade level in: Computer Science I, French IV, Algebra II, World Geography
--2nd place Korean Scientists and Engineers Contest</p>

<p>Internships: (I'm guessing this is what makes me stand out)
--MD Anderson Cancer Center
--St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
--Neurosurgery/Neurology Internship at Southwest Memorial Hermann Hospital</p>

<p>Volunteer:
--PASSPORTS (taught 5th graders from 2 different schools how to speak French) 50 hours?
--Southwest Memorial Hermann Hospital (Human Resources) 200 hours?
--Colony Baptist Church 25 hours?</p>

<p>Extracurricular:
--Health Occupations Students of America- 10,11,12 Vice Pres (12) Parliamentarian (10), 2 varsity letters
--French Honor Society- 11,12 Vice Pres, Public Relations Officer
--Varsity Orchestra- 9,10,11 Concertmaster
--Piano- Headliner 6 consecutive years
--Solo band- composes and records demos, plays houseshows
--Instruments- Piano, Violin, Viola, Voice, Guitar, Bass</p>

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<li>more ECs that I don't feel like typing</li>
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<p>I am applying to:
Princeton [ED]
Dartmouth
Wellesley
Harvard
Yale
Vassar
Cornell
UPenn</p>

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<p>You are looking good for most places--although I don't understand why you would major in Philosophy and Women's studies if you want to go pre-med. (Trying to boost the college GPA?) </p>

<p>You need to take a lot of sciences for the pre-med program. A biological sciences or chemistry major makes more sense--especially based upon your internships. </p>

<p>A lot of these schools will think you are just trying to pad a resume (or choose a more likely major to get accepted into) if you apply for philosophy or women's studies. They would look at this and say--"Hey, this person is planning on getting in, and then will jump majors". Based upon this, they will turn you down as unethical. I suggest you either explain the majors, or switch the majors so that your application makes more sense--and so your chances will be improved.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>I'd say that you have a fairly decent shot at all those schools. I do agree with what the above post said about being pre-med. Also, what were your AP scores?</p>

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<p>haha NO, because I'm very much interested in it. A lot more people do a philosophy major and carry on to medical school than you think.</p>

<p>Plus...have you even seen doctors these days? They have no consideration for their patients and are stuck in the "science" aspects of medicine. They need to see things more from the ethical side.</p>

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<p>Although I think it's likely you'll get into Cornell, Vassar, and Wellesley, all the schools you've listed are either very selective or highly selective and are damned difficult to get into, even for kids with stats like yours. I hope you have at least a couple of other, good, but less selective schools on your list, and a couple of safeties. Considering how selective the schools on you listed are, it would not be out of the realm of possibility that you get rejected by all of them.</p>

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<p>oh don't worry lol.
texans in the top 10% are guaranteed admission into any state school.
so i have university of texas austin and texas a&m as guaranteed backups. =)</p>

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<p>i think your ECs are very impressive so i think u have a chance at all except HPY..if u raise ur SAT then ur chance at those schools will increase a little</p>

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<p>If you think doctors are so unethical that they either want or need a "philosophy major" to make them see the light, why would you want to be a part of such a group of losers? I would think that you would have gotten more out of all those internships than an arrogant attitude that at age 17 you know anything about medical ethics. Don't waste your talents in medicine - stay in the ivory tower. From over 16 years of being both an academic and private practice physician, I can say other physicians want to work with energetic, enthusiastic, bright young people, who want to use their smarts to actually help other people - really. It's not about money, by the way. We don't need you.</p>

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<p>^ uhhhhhhhhhhh</p>

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<p>LMAODFJKLFDS zulu you're hot.
i have a thing for cranky old men.
have my babies.</p>

<p>hiii gqunit
i know you from the princeton boards =)</p>

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<p>Most doctors I know (including my father, who is in fact a bioethicist (and doctor) currently working in Africa for the Gates foundation in public health policy) would disagree with that statement.</p>

<p>I'm going to have to agree here with zulu - you seem awfully sure of your overall assessment of physicians/your implied superiority to them for a high school student. Don't let that arrogance come through on applications.</p>

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<p>Great shot.By the way Calcruzer is wrong!! My best friends who got into the top 10 med schools mostly were non-science majors!!</p>

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<p>A lot of non-science majors do get into top medical schools, but if you're going to double major and take enough science stuff to know enough to get into medical school, you're going to realy have to cram it in!</p>

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<p>lol i LOOOVE your comments, keep 'em coming! =)</p>

<p>hmm i'm not sure i'll double major.
i was considering it, but perhaps it would be easier to just take the required courses for premed in addition to my major.
my surgeons and med teachers keep advising me that for medical school, you should major in something you enjoy and know you're going to excel in as opposed to whatever you think they "want" to hear from you.</p>

<p>meh a lot of the schools i'm applying to let you pick your major at the end of your sophomore year, so it seems i might have just a little more time =)</p>

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<p>I agree! Major in something you like, if you get into these schools it won't matter.</p>

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<p>Don't assume anything. Like that an experienced physician would be male. I am a female physician with two teenagers.</p>

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<p>ummm...lol where does gender stereotype come into all this? :confused:</p>

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<p>hahahahha omg well agressiveness does not suit you well!
it makes you seem rather butch =)
doesn't matter to me though-- i'd still do you.</p>

<p>hiii pkpkpkpk!!!</p>

<p>on a more serious note: what type of physician are you?</p>

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<p>oops i forgot to mention...since this is online you can't sense that this is all in fun.</p>

<p>i keeeed.</p>