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<p>Hi, I was wondering if anyone could provide some input to help me with applying to colleges.</p>

<p>I'm a senior at North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
African-American</p>

<p>GPA: weighted 3.987
unweighted 4.675</p>

<p>SAT1: 1820 (690 M, 570 R, 560 W) I'm retaking it hopefully to get close to 2000 range
SAT2: I took Math IIC, Biology M, and Chemistry (I don't know the scores yet)
ACT: 27</p>

<p>Major: Music Performance and Biomedical Engineering (Biology possibly)</p>

<p>ECs:
Wind Ensemble (9-12)
School Music- Pit Orchestra (9-12)
All-District and All-State Participant 10-11
Track Manager (10-12)
Peer College Counselor-PCC, might sound strange, but it is a leadership position I have on campus in which I work with guidance counselors at my school to aid the students in choices for college, summer programs, scholarships, etc. 12 grade year
National Society of Black Engineers (11-12)
German Club Treasurer (11-12), hosted a German student this past month, I will be going to Germany next year in March for some studying.
Internship at Rockingham County Health Department-Pharmacy Student volunteer, +100 hours over the summer
Volunteer at Hospital-4 hours a week during school
-we aren't allowed to have outside jobs at school because our workload is tremendous.
Vice President of Interfaith Club
Member of National Beta Club-10th grade
Member of Tri-M Music Honor's Society(9-10)
Play a lot of Intramural Sports on Campus(11-12)
HOSA Finance Chair(12 grade), Medical Careers Club(11)</p>

<p>Classes from (1-12)
American Studies-B
Anatomy and Physiology I and II-A
Adv Evolution-A
Adv Chem-B
Pre-Calculus-B+
Mentorship Senior Research (1 and 2 Trimester)-A
AP Calc-A
Latin America-B+
Adv Physics-B
German 1-A
German 2-A
Mandarin Seminar-A
Wind Ensemble-A
AP Biology-haven't taken the class yet
Multiple and Differential Equations-haven't taken the class yet</p>

<p>For Mentorship-I work at NIEHS (National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences). I work in a lab with graduate students and professors to detect if a gene (Spanx-N4) affects cancer in patients, particular cancer research is prostate cancer.</p>

<p>Colleges:
University of Southern California
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
North Carolina State University
Cornell University
Johns Hopkins University
Carnegie Mellon University
and possibly UCLA</p>

<p>P.S. In 10th grade, I applied to go to North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics from my hometown school Rockingham County High School (small high school that didn't really have any challenges or prepare me for such a challenging school as ncssm) Will colleges take into account the change from one high school to another if they are on different levels of rigor and challenge</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>yes, you will get in everywhere because you are black.</p>

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<p>Get higher SATs and I'd say you have a rather good chance at cornell.</p>

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<p>University of Southern California: Reach
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: High Match
North Carolina State University: Match
Cornell University: Reach
Johns Hopkins University: Slight Reach
Carnegie Mellon University: Slight Reach/High Match
UCLA: Moderate Reach</p>

<p>I would look into some more science and math oriented schools too (Stonybrook, etc.)</p>

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<p>I have to agree with Luda, sats tooo low but urm status will help. That being said, UCLA isn't into AA, i don't think USC is into it heavy either, so i dunno how much it will help.</p>

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<p>Agreed with Karl, AA will help everywhere but UCLA, so you may experience the ostensible impossibility of being accepted at Johns Hopkins and CM but rejected at UCLA.</p>

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<p>University of Southern California: good chance
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill: good chance instate
North Carolina State University: In
Cornell University: Rejected
Johns Hopkins University: Rejected
Carnegie Mellon University: Decent chance
UCLA: decent chance</p>

<p>URM only helps so much. Try to get your scores up.</p>

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<p>Thank you very much for your imput, I also have another question...what do you mean by urm? I turned off my brain over thanksgiving, so I really don't know what you all are talking about.</p>

<p>I forgot to include 2 other colleges
Davidson and Duke</p>

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<p>URM= under-represented minority</p>

<p>African-American and Native-American are two prime examples of URM.</p>

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<p>And Latino.</p>

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<p>don't forget 1st generation students</p>

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<p>bandgeek5:</p>

<p>UCLA: Reach (out of state, Engineering)</p>