Help me reach my goal by critizing and offering advice! (Sophie Davis Biomedical Program!)

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I am currently a starting my junior year in High School, and I wanna to fix and get ready for the future so I would like the help of Fellow members of society for help!

My top, top, toppppp Priority and dream is to be able to get into the Sophie Davis Biomedical Program!

Grades:

PSAT:1120/1600 (did not study, and had just started algebra 2)
SAT: Yet to take

Regents:

Algebra 1: 85

Geometry: 75 the first time, 80 the second and I replan on taking it. I must say this was the hardest Geometry regents ever given by NY. FWI: it was the june 2017 regent, then retake was august 2017.

Algebra II :80 Also plan to retake

Living Enviorments: 93

Earth Sceince: 86

Global History: 94

My GPA fluctates so I can’t say for now but definatley above 85.

Loaded with ap classes won’t know ap score till after but currently taking

AP Physic

AP Chemistry

AP Lang

AP US History

Pre Calc- Plan to take AP Stats, and possibly AP Calc AB

Spanish- Note I faled one qaurter of spanish in one year but my previous spanish grades have been great and I hope to achieve AP Spanish during my senior year

Other School Stuff

Clubs:
Model UN - Basically an Internation Debate Comitee, got verbal recognition by Columbia at that conferance

Students for a better World- Volunteer club

Honor Society

Academic Team

Student Council- During freshman Year I was elected President

                         During Sophmore Year I was Elected Secratary

                         Hopefully Will reun for president again during my senior year.

Plan on entering Leadership Club
(PLAN TO START THE FIRST MEDICAL CLUB AT MY SCHOOL)

Other:

Attended informational events:

Legislator Conferance

Justice Courts Mock Trial Thing

TED talk Leadership conferance

International NYC MUN Conferance

Sports:
Played JV Lacrosse 9th Grade
Played JV Tennis 10th Grade
Playing JV Tennis 11th Grade

Outside of School:
Plan on Shadowing Cardio Surgeons and cardiologil
Volunteering at Hospital

So any future advice, things I can improve?
Please don’t say that I’m better of going somewhere else. I want to know what I need to improve and I will do my best. I still have approx 1 year worth of time left to build up.

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Hi there! I got an interview+waitlist for Sophie Davis (but didn’t get accepted because I probably didn’t do well on my interview) but I can certainly give you advice on what you need to overcome the first hurdle of getting an interview. First of all, your extracurriculars are impressive, and hopefully the plans you made about things such as shadowing surgeons, starting a medical club, and volunteering at a hospital do come to pass. It’s very important to have backgrounds and experience in medical areas because those are the main extracurriculars they look for. It’s also good to see that you are taking APs, and hopefully you do well on them because those also help your application. Subject SATs are also good things to take, which I did. They are important in helping your application competitiveness.

Your PSAT I must say is not very good. I strongly suggest that improving your SAT score becomes one of your top priorities for the future because you have to work towards raising it to at LEAST the mid-1300s (approximately). Remember that the applicants for Sophie are very competitive and have very impressive scores. But you are still only a junior so you’ve got time to improve on that. I also strongly suggest you work hard at improving your GPA. The average for all Sophie matriculants is around a 95-96.

The strongest advice I can give you which is the MOST important is doing a REALLY great job in your essays. That’s what shows the admissions office your personality and your values, and that’s what differentiates you from all the other hundreds and hundreds of applications they receive.

BEST of luck!!!