<p>General: Rising Senior, Female, New Jersey.
Ethnicity:Asian.
Career Interests: Computer Science + Biomed,
School Stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 Unweighted. 4.15 Weighted.
AP : Junior Year - AP Chem(4), AP US History(3), AP Lang(4), AP Calc AB & BC (5)</p>
<p>: Senior Year - AP Biology, AP European History, AP Economics, Physics
Hons, Multivariabe Calculus.</p>
<p>: Took two courses in C from Stanford University EPGY Program
: Took Phyisics course at Community College</p>
<p>Taken Toughest courseload offered.</p>
<p>Rank: Our School doesn't Rank</p>
<p>Standardised Testing: </p>
<p>ACT: 33
SAT II: Math II level 1 - 760; Math II 2c - 800; Chemistry - 790</p>
<p>EC's:
Tennis part of the high school girls team
Swimming a member of the X-cel Swim Team, Princeton
Golf member of the varsity golf team in school
Red Cross a beneficial program at high school
REBEL making a difference within schools
Literary Magazine writing and sharing literature with those who
have a similar passion
Math League
Community Helpers at the middle school, traveled to nursing homes and soup kitchens to help the needy
Volunteer Services at two different hospitals
( more than three years, 350+ hours todate)</p>
<p>Research:</p>
<ul>
<li>Attended a Summer Program in Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University</li>
<li>Did a cancer research for 5 weeks in Medicincal Chemistry at Rutgers
University</li>
<li>Doing Internship at Johns Hopkins Medical School/Biomedical Engineering (Summer 2008) for 8
weeks</li>
<li>Did lot of "C" programming and MathLab work</li>
<li>Very passionate about working in Biomedical + Computer Science Area</li>
</ul>
<p>I don't see anything seriously wrong with your application based on the information you provided, so, yes, you have a realistic chance and are probably a strong applicant. That said, even though Caltech seems to be a lot less arbitrary with admissions than a lot of other top schools, I'm not shocked when I see students with much better stats be rejected. Your ECs and research are definitely your strong points. Excellent recommendations and compelling essays will put you in very good shape.</p>
<p>Also, your class ranking and individual grades are a lot more useful than the GPA to adcoms. If your GPA corresponds to the top 5% in your class, you're fine in that department. B/Cs in math and science classes will hurt a lot more than B/Cs in humanities classes. Same with the ACT score -- a 33 could be good or bad depending on the subscores.</p>
<p>ACT's a bit low, GPA's a bit low, can't see your passion for biology; the fact that you don't know that it's spelled "matlab" indicates that you had no idea what you were doing and had connections to get research posts.</p>
<p>And the fact that she left out the r in multivariable clearly means she only knows algebra. That or you're jumping to conclusions, anonymous... no need to be inflammatory.</p>
<p>To answer the original poster, I agree with Antiquark. Sometimes I don't even know why I bother posting--he/she has usually given a more informative and accurate answer than I would have anyway :P</p>
<p>No, that is a simple typographical mistake. "MathLab", on the other hand, means she is not familiar with the software suite, as the camelCasing and the addition of an 'h' requires thought. It'd be like typing "Multivariable Calculators" instead of multivariable calculus.</p>
<p>I don't think it's nearly as bad as "Multivariable Calculators" especially given that the product is "MathWorks Matlab". I could definitely see myself typing "Mathlab" on a really late night... </p>
<p>I'm not saying you aren't correct, I'm just saying we should give the OP the benefit of the doubt.</p>
<p>By the way, why did you quote my statement as Antiquark's?</p>
<p>Yes, that's a reasonable score. You can't do too much better in math. Actually, I think I got in with a 32. But then again, I didn't provide my ACT's.</p>
<p>Oh, and I use Matlab all the time, and until now, I'm not sure I have ever thought about how to spell it.</p>