freaking out over college admisson, please help a junior out.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I’m a junior. I’ve okay grades and pretty decent standardized scores, but I don’t have a lot of EC and no leadership position in those, and I’m really worried that’s going to hurt my chances. Please chance me for ivies and similar level schools.
Asian Female (probably not going to help), immigrated at age 11
Family income – below 60k, need financial aid
GPA- 3.9 UW/ school does not weight- I’ve very high grades in science and history, (which I love) decent in math and foreign language (French) and lowest in English
Rank – school does not rank, should be top 10%
I go to a competitive high school in NYC that requires entrance exam which sends large amount of students to ivy league every year.
PSAT- 231 (should qualify for national merit scholarship semifinalist)
SATI- 2360, M- 760, V- 790, W-800, single sitting, first time
SATII – Biology M (freshman yr) – 780, Chemistry (soph yr) – 800, to be taken, US history, Math II
APs- European History- 5,
taking US history and Bio in May – expect 5s,
Senior yr – planned, AP Chemistry, AP Psych, AP BC calculus, AP Gov
College classes in the sciences at CCNY
Honors classes in math and science every year, no honor classes offered in English, AP history except freshman yr (not offered), 3 yrs of French - up through AP
Electives - math team, genetics research, human disease,
Doing research at Mt. Sinai hospital on the effects of histone variants
Extracurricular and Others
USABO – 2009, national finalist
Science Olympiad (9,10, 11)
School newspaper and year book photographer (9, 10, 11)
Asian Performance Organization (10, 11)
ARISTA- national honor society (10, 11)
Internship at American Museum of Natural History (summer after soph yr)
Columbia Science Honors Program- taking classes at Columbia
Camp Rising Sun (LAJF) – international leadership camp, requires interview, participation counted as granting a scholarship
Tutors at prep school – help kids with high school entrance exams and other tests
Volunteering at hospital (summer after freshman and soph yr)
Over 200 hours of community service
Recs – first teacher – really good, science teacher, she had me for 2 yrs and loves me
Second teacher – should be pretty good, had me for history, and I did well in her class
Guidance – she seems really nice, and she’s writing my rec based on the info I provided
Essays – will write in the summer, should be decent. </p>

<p>I have a passion for science and for helping others. I want to be a doctor (I know it’s very Asian, though my parents are very against it). I want to major in biology and go to med school eventually.
Chance me for
Columbia (ED) – I love the school and I really want to go there
Harvard
Cornell
MIT
Duke
Georgetown
Northwestern
UC Berkeley
NYU
John Hopkins
Washington University at St. Louis
I know these are ambitious, and I do have safeties, I’m just curious at my chances for these colleges. THANK YOU and I will chance back.</p>

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<p>I think you have just as good as chance as anyone at all of your choices. You have really good ECs and a good UW gpa. As long as you don’t screw up, I think you’ll get into several top schools. Best of luck.</p>

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<p>Your credentials are wonderful! You should be very proud of yourself with what you have accomplished thus far. Doing research at Mt. Sinai is a huge plus to your application, especially since you have a passion in science. Colleges will definitely take note of that. </p>

<p>You have a great chance at all those schools. Keep up the good work!</p>

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<p>I mean, the best chance that ANYONE has at any of those schools is probably about 30% (with the exception of maybe Northwestern and WUSTL). You’ll probably get in to one or two of them, but don’t get worked up about it.</p>

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<p>If you apply at everything on the list with Columbia ED you will probably get into at least 2 of them but you should target a couple of safeties. The University of Rochester would be a very good fit for your interests. Lots of opportunity for undergraduate research there too.</p>

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<p>thank you for your responses. will the lack of leadership position really hurt me though? also any advice as to what i should do now? any responses are helpful.</p>

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<p>you’ll get in Columbia ED. (not a guarantee, but you have a great chance, and I have a good feeling :p)</p>

<p>ECs aren’t spectacular, but USABO, research at Mt. Sinai, and Columbia Science Program all show passion for science, and considerable commitment. Leadership is nice, but not everyone’s gonna be a leader anyhow.</p>

<p>Looks good to me. Good luck, maybe see you at Columbia :)</p>