<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>