Chances?

<p>Please rate my chances for the following schools:
Yale, early action
Harvard
Brown PLME
Brown regular (same application as PLME)
Duke
Columbia (Fu Foundation School of Engineering)
Northwestern
Georgetown
University of Michigan
Boston College
Rutgers</p>

<p>Likely Majors: biomedical engineering or molecular biology</p>

<p>Bio: Rising senior, Asian male (boo), immigrant (legal, i swear), US citizen</p>

<p>School: New Jersey Public School
Rank: 4/300+
GPA: 4.63 W, no clue UW</p>

<p>Course Load (hardest possible in school, while still maintaining Band):
Freshman - English 9 H, World History H, Earth Science H, Biology H, PhysEd/Health, Band, Geometry H, Spanish II H
Sophomore - English 10 H, US History I H, Chemistry H, Biology AP [5], PhysEd/Health, Band, PreCalculus H, Spanish III H
Junior - English 11 AP [5], US History II AP [5], Physics H, Research in Molecular Biology (AP weight), PhysEd/Health, Band, AP Calc [5], Spanish IV H
Senior - English 12 AP [?], Creative Writing, Physics AP [?], Chem AP [?], PhysEd/Health, Band, AP Calc [?], Spanish AP [?] </p>

<p>Standardized Testing:
SAT: 2400, one sitting, first try
SAT II: 800 Math IIC, 800 Physics, 770 Bio (only princeton and harvard, i think, will see the third score)
ACT: nah.</p>

<p>Extra-curricular, school-based:
-2-year Drum Major of a 93-member, championship-caliber marching band (marched all 4 years, obviously)
-French horn player, member of advanced band
-Undecided (specifically speaking) editor position of the school newspaper near the top of the food chain. Editor position three years, member for all four
-FBLA, webmaster, member for three years, state finalist in the two years i know of, hopefully yet again this upcoming year
-Science Olympiad, various state/regional awards (couple of first places in regionals; placed in all events in states, except for one)
-Key Club, two year member
-Spring Musical, pit orchestra (french horn), three year member
-Percussion Ensemble, mallet percussion, two year member
-Jazz Band, trumpet, emergency replacement for one year (some guy dropped out early on...had to catch up with an instrument i hadn't played for 4 years)
-Men's Ensemble, tenor/bass, two years
-FIRST Robotics, assistant drafting captain for one year, member for two (the advisor had to leave =T)
-National Honor Society
-Spanish Honor Society
-Spring Track, one season</p>

<p>Extra-curriculars, community service:
-Key Club, two years (as mentioned above)
-American Cancer Society, 40 hours a year for two years
-Painted a fire hydrant for the community. It was fun. (stained my pants though. oh well.)</p>

<p>Extra-curriculars, personal:
-12-year piano player (stereotypical, i know): Passed Grade 8 of the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music board examinations, several regional competition awards that would just bore you (a couple second place, a couple first place...etc.)
-Watercolor Painter (it's actually not half bad, won a couple of local competitions)
-Website designer (made 900 bucks for a commission for a now-defunct NYC DJ)</p>

<p>Extra-curriculars, professional/out-of-school:
-paid summer intern at the Structural Biology Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health ($3800 =D)
-two-years paid summer intern at Rutgers University's WINLAB ($900 both summers)
-member of SET (google it alongisde Johns Hopkins for more info)
-three years at Columbia University's Science Honors Program</p>

<p>Recommendations: I have them, don't worry</p>

<p>Essay: Can't say how good they are, but they're there</p>

<p>Last Questions for you, the responder: Any ideas for more safeties I can look into? </p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

<p>You don't need me to tell you that you have excellent stats. Your ECs are also pretty good as well, not jaw dropping but still pretty good. You know you will get into some excellent schools. As for each school:</p>

<p>Yale, early action-Low Reach, but very attainable
Harvard-Low Reach, but very attainable
Brown PLME-Reach, even though you have great stats 770 in Bio will hurt you for the most selective MED program in the country (my bro as a frosh got 780 and he doesn't want to become a doc)
Brown regular (same application as PLME)-High Match
Duke-Match
Columbia (Fu Foundation School of Engineering)-Match
Northwestern-Match
Georgetown-Low Match
University of Michigan-Safety with some merit
Boston College-Safety with some merit
Rutgers-Full ride</p>

<p>I would advise you add Cornell and Penn engineering to your list (both matches). Also, have you looked into JHU's biomed program (low reach and a match for JHU itself)? I think you have enough safeties so you should go on the attack. You may want to apply to MIT and Caltech, low reach and high match respectively. The Asian thing will work against you but still, I think you are one of the most competitive applicants on CC for '12 and that says something. You are an excellent applicant and you make your fellow New Jerseyan proud. </p>

<p>Please chance me at:
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=361246%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=361246&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>If you didn't get in everywhere something is wrong.</p>

<p>maybe it would make sense to take the ACT...;)</p>

<p>wow, you have great stats! i think you have a good chance anywhere, but hopefully your essays conveyed a passion for something? i can't pick out what exactly you love from your ECs (but don't worry, they're really strong anyways!).</p>

<p>i would have thought music was obvious, but i guess not? =P</p>

<p>you're chance is so strong everywhere good luck to you.</p>

<p>well, yeah, but some kids are brilliant but don't really like whatever they're doing. i mean, it's not hard to figure out that you're passionate about it (:)) but it'd be good if you wrote about it in your essays . . . just to show how important it is to you and that you really love it! :)</p>

<p>You could potentially get into any of them, but the Ivys and other top schools are always reaches for everybody.</p>

<p>yeah. totally agreed. it's really a roll of the dice =T</p>

<p>Your stats look amazing, and you absolutely owned the SAT. </p>

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even though you have great stats 770 in Bio will hurt you for the most selective MED program in the country

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<p>psh, doubt it.</p>

<p>Georgetown in!</p>

<p>btw it looks like you are applying to Northwestern, but are you applying to Northwestern HPME as well?</p>

<p>*even though you have great stats 770 in Bio will hurt you for the most selective MED program in the country *</p>

<p>SAT2's are basically +/- 30 so they would probably consider his 770 to be an 800...</p>

<p>not HPME at n'western. i didn't take the chem SAT2, which is required.</p>

<p>community college of morris for you.</p>

<p>Yale, early action - Reach
Harvard - Reach
Duke - Match
Columbia (Fu Foundation School of Engineering) - Match
Northwestern - Match
Georgetown - Match
University of Michigan - Safety
Boston College - Safety
Rutgers - Safety</p>

<p>Sorry I have no clue about Brown.</p>

<p>Chance me back please? <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=374098%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=374098&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>i know lots of people (including myself before all this madness) love to know the results to stats, so here are mine. may these offer hope to someone out there :]</p>

<p>Yale, early action - EARLY ADMIT
Harvard - REJECT
Brown PLME - ADMIT
Brown regular (same application as PLME) - ADMIT
Duke - ADMIT
Columbia (Fu Foundation School of Engineering) - ADMIT
Northwestern - ADMIT
Georgetown - ADMIT
University of Michigan - ADMIT
Rutgers - ADMIT</p>

<p>You suck. :P</p>