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<p>Here goes...</p>

<p>I'm a high school junior tentatively looking at Ohio State's Honors program, majoring in some biological science. I hope to go on to med school, so my undergraduate GPA is pretty important (classes can't be toooo hard). Since OSU is pretty much the only college I've looked at, and since I'm all but positive that I could get in if I had to, I was hoping that you, the CCers, could offer some suggestions of more "reachy" colleges that fit my stats and career goals. Thanks in advance!</p>

<p>Current Rank 3/351</p>

<p>Current GPA 3.98</p>

<p>Standardized Test Scores
ACT
Composite-35
English-34
Math-36
Reading-35
Science-35
English/Essay-30 (Yeah... I suck at timed writing)</p>

<p>SAT
Total-2210
Critical Reading-680
Math-800
Writing-730</p>

<p>Schedules of Classes
Freshman
Honors Physical Science: A+
Honors Algebra II: A+
Spanish II: A
Intro. to Media / Health: A / A
English 9: A-
World Studies: A</p>

<p>Sophomore
Honors Biology: A+
Precalculus: A+
Spanish III: A+
Newspaper Production I: A
Honors English 10: A+
U.S. History: A+</p>

<p>Junior
Chemistry C.P.: A+
Physics I: A+
A.P. Calculus B.C.: A+
Spanish IV: A+
Newspaper Production II: A
Honors American Literature / Expository and Research Writing: A+ / A+</p>

<p>Senior Schedule (Tentative)
Honors Chemistry
A.P. Biology
College Math (Not sure which, yet)
Newspaper Production III
A.P. English Language
American Government / Economics
Graphic Arts I and II</p>

<p>**Extracurricular Activities<a href="Pretty%20pathetic">/B</a>
Staff writer and page editor for nationally-recognized high school newspaper
First baseman and pitcher for high school baseball team
Played baseball year-round for numerous years (seasons during spring, summer, and fall; conditioning in winter)</p>

<p>Volunteerism
Tutor peers in math under direction of the math teacher I have had for all three years of high school
Helped build a pave-stone patio behind one of the area baseball diamonds</p>

<p>Employment
Summer 2007-Moved around my dad's work for about one hour per week
Summer 2009-Will have participated in the Cleveland Clinic's Summer Science Internship Program as a research assistant, working 40 hours per week</p>

<p>There you have it. I hope you can help! Don't forget to post a link to your own thread...</p>

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<p>12-hour bump</p>

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<p>Uhm if your looking for more reach type schools then there is always HYPS, MIT, the rest of the Ivies, WashuSTL, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Rice. Most have good biological sciences area, Duke and JHU have like the best Biomedical engineering programs (along w/ MIT)</p>

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<p>i def think you’ll get into ohio state honors. your academics are pretty high
johns hopkins has tons of research, so look into there</p>

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<p>19.75-hour bump</p>

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<p>Ha, to be honest, you can do way better than OSU Honors. Although your EC’s are rather mediocre, playing a sport year-round does take a considerable amount of time and you still managed to do a couple of things outside of that. Your academics and ACT is great as well. You should also take Subject Tests, you should do fine on those because you seem to be the type of person who tests well. You should definitely apply to Ivies, Duke, Rice and Johns Hopkins for great bio programs. Obviously there are others but I can’t remember all of them off the top of my head. Just keep up your good work and you will be golden.</p>

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<p>ya…your grades are great… I would say something like Johns Hopkins or any type of ivy league would be a good fit/reach for you. You should be fine wherever you go judging by that drive for success exhibited by your high school transcript.
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<p>And good luck wherever you go you’ll do great</p>

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<p>23.5-hour bump. Last one… maybe.</p>

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<p>Vanderbilt might be a good fit they have a good bio program. Your grades are really good and course load is good too. I wish my school still had A+ ( they took them away and then weighted AP’s) </p>

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<p>you’re good. probably could do better also.</p>

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<p>I hate school bump. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>you’re real good. you should find schools that are better than that like john hopkins!</p>

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<p>You should be able to get into the honors program</p>

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<p>Like above people have said, OSU Honors is too low for you. You have fantastic grades and great scores. If you bring up your SAT CR score to be more on par it would be even better. I know you said you wanna have a good GPA for med school admissions but think of it this way. Medical schools are going to look at your 4.0 from OSU differently than maybe a 4.0 from Harvard or somewhere similar. The quality of your education is just going to be different. Not that I mean to diss OSU or anything, it’s just a fact. Besides, many colleges are famous for inflating grades so if you’re that worried about your GPA, select one of those schools. To be honest, you may just have to work a bit harder to get the grades you’ve always gotten.</p>

<p>Most of the top schools have great departments all around. So you won’t have to search for schools that will want to take you AND have good science programs. Now you should just look for what kind of atmosphere you want at a college. You’ll inevitably find a college that fits your needs, both scholastic and extracurriculur</p>

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