chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Chances for </p>

<p>Penn (first choice)
Dartmouth
Cornell
JHU
Carnegie Mellon
NYU</p>

<p>*** that is a list of my “reach” schools</p>

<p>I want to major in biology and maybe go to med school after I graduate. </p>

<p>Sex- male
Ethnicity- Indian
Location- New Jersey
School- large public school, about 400 in my class – many graduates go to Ivy League schools or equivalent
Grade- just finished 10th grade and will be going into 11th
GPA </p>

<p>9th grade – unweighted 96.5, weighted 99.2</p>

<p>Algebra II Honors – 95
Band – 96
English Honors – 98
Physics Honors – 95
World History – 100
Spanish 3 – 96</p>

<p>10th – unweighted 91.1, weighted 95.1</p>

<p>Precalculus Honors – 89
Band – 95
English Honors – 89
AP US History – 89
AP Chemistry – 92
Spanish 4 – 98</p>

<p>*** I know I messed up really badly this year, but I plan on working really hard to get good grades next year</p>

<p>Junior year schedule</p>

<p>AP English
AP Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP History
AP Economics
Spanish 5 Honors</p>

<p>I’ve taken the hardest possible courses possible at my school. By the time I graduate, I will have taken 12 AP classes and I think I will get mostly 5s, some 4s.</p>

<p>Class Rank- somewhere between 4 – 10, top 1-2% </p>

<p>PSAT- didn’t study at all so hopefully I’ll score a lot higher when I take it in 11th grade – 204
critical reading- 72
math- 67<br>
writing- 65</p>

<p>SAT- taking fall of junior year, probably between 2200-2400 – based on practice tests</p>

<p>EC:</p>

<p>Marching Band – 9, 10, 11, 12 (hope to get a leadership position in 12th)
Varsity Swimming – 9, 10, 11, 12 (will probably be captain 12th grade, not good enough to be recruited)
Science Olympiad – 9, 10, 11, 12 (18 medals at regional and state competitions, hope to do even better over the next 2 years)
Science League
Founder + President of Model Congress club (10, 11, 12)
Hoping to do research at Rutgers or Princeton for Intel STS</p>

<p>Volunteer-
I volunteer at the local hospital (~100 hours) and at the library (50 hours)</p>

<p>Essays and recommendations should be good.</p>

<p>Chances? Suggestions?</p>

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<p>first of all, w/o even looking at ur stats i see that ur reach schools are incredibly different. i mean JHU is nothing like NYU which is nothing like dartmouth. what are you looking for? first i'd suggest research colleges a little more. looks to me like ur just looking for a big name. ok now to the good stuff.
you're only a junior man. you've got plenty of time. junior year is the most important year. PSAT score has nothing to do w/ SAT score (atleast it didn't for me). your courseload and EC's look fine though. come back in another year. it's too early to give you meaningful chances</p>