<p>I need a stats evaluation. I live in Illinois and go to a regular public high school. My GPA is currently a 3.26 and will probably be up to a 3.4 ish by the end of this semester, that is my weighted GPA, unweighted is probably like a 3.15 or something. Yes, I know, it is really low. Mainly due to me not taking freshman and sophomore yeas seriously. I could have done so much better but I just didn't try I was too busy goofing off, well that's my own fault whatever. As for my ACT the first time I took it I got a 26 composite and a 8/12 on the writing. The second and most recent time I took it I got a 30 composite and a 10/12 on the writing. I'm thinking of taking it just one more time along with probably my SATs. I plan on going into pre-med and becoming a doctor.</p>
<p>Quick question does it make a big deal if Ididn't take my SATs when applying too colleges on the East and West coasts with only a ACT score?</p>
<p>EC:
Spanish Club
Ecology Club
Red Surge (Pep Club thing)
Mathelete
Scholastic Bowl Varsity
200 hrs of volunteer work at my local hospital</p>
<p>Another quick question is that when putting down my extracurriculars do I have to state for how many years I was a member?</p>
<p>Another big thing is that I have a job as a Partner working at my local hospital, this isn't a volunteer position, I actually get paid and do things that a volunteer would never be able to do, like I work in the ER and I take blood pressures, vitals, temps, and various other things. Will my hospital volunteer work and job help with my chances? A lot or a little?</p>
<p>My choices:
University of CaliforniaBerkeley
Carnegie Mellon University
University of CaliforniaLos Angeles
University of MichiganAnn Arbor
University of Southern California
University of CaliforniaSan Diego
New York University
University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign
University of Chicago
Columbia University
Brown University</p>
<p>What are my chances, anything I can do to improve my chances? Is ED a good idea? Abd also what does URM mean?</p>
<p>Oh and yeah I'm in all honors, AP, college required classes</p>
<p>At least for the UC's, you'll need a way higher GPA...being out of state makes it even more difficult. Then again, UC's only count Sophomore and Junior GPA, so that might help you raise it?</p>
<p>I would raise your ACT score. For the private schools, EC's and the other stuff will help you, but UC's are primarily number based. As finale said, start finding matches and safeties.</p>
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<li>Carnegie Mellon only looks and averages your sophomore+junior grades along with your midsemester senior grades so KEEP THEM UP.</li>
<li>ED will raise your chances a lot at CMU out of all those on your list. 2nd would probably be NYU.</li>
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<p>You do know that nearly all of your medical training will be done in grad school, right? Your work in the hospital is a nice extracurricular, but isn't going to really affect your chances of getting into an undergrad pre-med school that much.</p>
<p>I think your list is a little rediculous considering your GPA (low) and your scores (around average for the schools you're looking at). My school is very competitive and sends many people to Ivies each year. I put the lowest GPA of anyone accepted into the schools in the past 3 years in parenthesis. And consider these students may have higher scores or hooks that got them in. All of the schools you listed other than the UCs got many applicants from my school.</p>
<p>University of CaliforniaBerkeley- Reach (3.67)
Carnegie Mellon University- Reach but maybe possible with ED (3.23)
University of CaliforniaLos Angeles- Reach (3.42)
University of MichiganAnn Arbor- Reach (3.22, and we have a TON of applicants)
University of Southern California- Reach (3.3)
University of CaliforniaSan Diego- Slight Reach (3.46)
New York University- Reach but maybe possible ED (3.0 but big outlier, next lowest 3.32)
University of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign- Safe match (2.88)
University of Chicago- Huge reach (3.65)
Columbia University- Huge Reach (3.89)
Brown University- Huge Reach (3.37- but that was a huge outlier)</p>
<p>thebrown- My school has a program called TCCI Naviance that allows you to see lowest accepted, average accepted, and average applied SATs and GPA for each college.</p>
<p>Thanks that helped alot, and yeah I was brownman but I couldn't log back in and password recovery wouldn't f'in work. I do plan on taking the ACT again and hopefully increasinf my score by at leat 1 point. As for my SATs, if you haven't noticed I am applying to mainly West and East Coast shools, do I need to take them?? Would those schools accept me with an ACT or do I need an SAT score for them to even look at me? I could use some opinions and as for the ED thing, can I apply to more than one school with ED???</p>
<p>ACTs are fine without SATs. You may want to take SATIIs. I'm not sure if any of the schools on your list require SATIIs with ACTs, but if you can do well it would help you a lot. </p>
<p>You can only apply to one school early decision. If you are accepted into the school, you are legally bound to attend. Thus, you should only apply ED to your first choice and favorite school.</p>
<p>Okay that helped, and chocolateluvr88 due you have a list of average ACT/SAT scores for those schools, and are those averages only for students form your school?</p>
<p>IndianKid- those were not average GPAs, they were the lowest GPA of anyone accepted from my school. In other words, the chance of getting accepted with anything lower than that, let alone slightly above that, is quite low. Go to princetonreview.com and look up the scores to find 25-75% SAT scores. Aim for at least the 75th%. If you would like I can post the average SAT score for each school for applicants from my high school accepted into each college.</p>