Hello,
I understand what it looks like as it’s my first post and all, but my competitive classmates somehow compromised by old account username and I did not want any of this stuff getting out.
So here goes…
Trying to go into BME, pre-med is a fallback, violin performance minor maybe
Schools: John Hopkins, UMich, Northwestern, Carnegie mellon, Georgia Tech, Case Western, Cornell, UPenn, MIT
I go to a public school in Michigan. Asian Male. Charismatic, a little cocky, overall easy going and well liked (I dunno, maybe for interviews)
SAT I: N/A
ACT (breakdown): 36C 36R 36S 36M 35E 6 on essay lol
SAT II (subject, score): 650 chem (…) 750 Math 2, retaking Math 2 and taking Bio (expect 780+ and 730-750 bio)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7 on transcript, +/- .1 for small discrepancies
Weighted GPA: no clue, our school weights weird, honors/AP weighted equally
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 15% in class of 350 (worst part of my app)
AP (place score in parentheses):
Sophomore Year: APUSH 4 Bio 4
Junior Year: Chem 4, Gov 4, Stats 4, Calc AB 4
Senior Year: Calc BC, Phys 1, LangComp, LitComp, MusicTheo, EnviroSci
Max course rigor first three years
Senior Year Course Load:
AP Calc BC
AP Lang
AP Lit
AP Phys1
Orchestra
Econ/Health (school reqs)
Free Period/Early Leave (Kind of worried about this)
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): nope
Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AP Scholar wi distinct lol
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description):
NHS, 11/12, President
Orchestra, 9-12, President
Model UN, 11-12, President
Student Class rep
Gigging band, Violin, we do a lot of gigs and youtube stuff, run social media
Played with a huge international rapper on his tour, we tight
All State Orchestra, 11-12, 3rd chair in state 11th
Prestigious Youth Orchestra, 9-12, Asst Concertmaster 10 and 11, prolly CM 12,
Other Prestigious Youth Orchestra, 12
Writer for School Newspaper, 9-12
Math Club, 9-12, Maybe officer 12
Science Olympiad 9-12 (didn’t really participate in competitions bc of violin conflicts)
Co-cap frisbee club team, 10-12
Job/Work Experience: nope
Volunteer/Community Service: ~300 hours from local hospital, helping disabled children
Other Stuff: upload cover videos onto my own youtube channel with decent success (Probably not worth putting on the app), otherwise a self-proclaimed connoisseur of hair gel brands
Questions: I know JHU BME is insanely hard to get into and I know that you can’t transfer into BME easily from another major, is it worth applying on a premed track just to get in or should I just go for BME?
Also, for UMich, if I apply for the college of engineering, I can’t get into LSA if I’m rejected from CoE, correct?
Thanks!