Chances/suggestions for improvement please :D

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, please chance me. I realized that I still have some time left for improvement so please give me any suggestions you can! Thanks! </p>

<p>-Asian Male
-from Southern California</p>

<p>GPA:
WGPA = 4.11 (w/o freshman year = 4.4)
UWGPA = 3.5 (w/o freshman year = 3.81818)
4 AP Classes in junior Year
Fairly large upward trend throughout high school</p>

<p>SAT:
2180 SAT 1
800 SAT Math 2
780 SAT Chem
670 SAT Bio (self-studied)</p>

<p>Activities
-Robotics Team for 2.5 years (programming vice-captain)
-Piano for 7 Years, MTAC Level 10 (last level) Certificate of Merit
-Played in Honors Recital
-1.5 year hospital volunteer 250+ Hours
-Yearlong internship with neurologist (learned how to use really expensive equipment)
-Summer internship at NIH(very hands on)</p>

<p>Recommendations
-Most likely good one from counselor
-Most likely good one from AP Computer Science teacher
-Good one from neurologist
-Likely good one from scientist/mentor at NIH
-Most likely good one from supervisor at hospital (might not submit this one)</p>

<p>Essays
-Good essays ( or so i've been told)</p>

<p>Schools I Want to Go to:
-Johns Hopkins (will apply ED) I'm dying to get into JHU =/
-UCSD
-all other UC's but especially UCSD
-University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
-Carnegie Mellon</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Well... Your GPA excluding freshman year is pretty high, and I think many colleges (not sure about JHU) put a strong emphasis on sophomore/junior year achievements, and plus, they look for trends in grades, so you should be ok!</p>

<p>Although it seems somewhat expected of Asians to be in some sort of music, achieving the last level in a Piano performance thing is impressive.</p>

<p>Your ECs look pretty good, but your SAT score has some room for improvement - at 2180, you're just at the median score for JHU. Since your GPA isn't that high, you'd want an SAT score at about the 75th percentile of the school, which would be a 2280. As hard as this may seem, you have a whole year ahead of you to prepare, so go for it!</p>

<p>So yeah, that's the breakdown. Here are my predictions at the moment:
JHU - reach
UCSD - match/safety
UCLA/UCB - match/slight reach
UCI,UCR,UCM,UCSB,etc - safety
UMich - sorry, no idea ^^
Carnegie Mellon - match/safety</p>

<p>IF you can get your SAT score up to a 2280, I'd say:
JHU - match/slight reach
UCSD - safety
UCLA/UCB - match/safety
Other UCs - easy safeties
UMich - again, no idea ^^
Carnegie Mellon - safety</p>

<p>I might be going a bit too leniently, but that's what I really think ^^ As for what you can do.... Make sure you get straight As this year! Raise your SAT score. Get a bit more leadership and get awards/honors (? you didn't list any). My two bits for ya ;-)</p>

<p>PS. Do keep in mind that 2280 is no "magic number" that will grant you admission... Just do your best, if you get it, good for you, if you don't, don't worry, that one number alone won't cause a school to reject you! As I listed above, your SAT isn't the only thing to raise, so just try to work holistically, not only on the SAT. Hope I helped and didn't disappoint you or anything!</p>

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<p>cheeseman557:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Match
UCSD: Safe Match</p>