hi all.
please rate my chances at: Brown (PLME), Caltech, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, MIT, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, UCB, UCLA, UCSD, UCR, UCD, UCI, U Penn, USC, and Yale.
im a rising senior from a highly gifted magnet program within a larger hs in los angeles, CA.
i volunteer 4hrs/week at a hospital. this is my 4th yr doing so.
here are my raw stats:
rank: 39/888 at the end of 1st semester jr yr. probably a bit lower. 50 at worst.
uc gpa: 4.067 at the end of 1st semester jr yr. probably a bit lower. 4.0 is expected.
-SAT I (new) Reasoning Test June 2005: 2210 (m 760, v 690, w 760)
-SAT I (new) Reasoning Test March 2005: 2230 (m 800, v 680, w 750)
-SAT I (old) Reasoning Test January 2005: 1590 (m 790, v 800)
-SAT II Subject Test December 2004: Math 2c 800
(need to take 2 more sat iis. expecting 750+ on them)
-PSAT: 221 (m 76, v 71, w 74) (2004) (National Merit Semifinalist Qualifying Score)
10th grade:
AP Physics C: Mech: 1
E & M: 1
AP European History: 3
AP Calculus AB: 4
11th grade:
AP American History: 1
AP Chemistry: 1
AP Eng Lang & Comp: 5
AP Calculus BC: 4
AB Subscore: 5
-Harvard Summer Secondary School (June 25, 2005 - August 20, 2005) accepted and attended. Class: Biology S 1 AB. Grade: (not done yet heh)
<p>unless your schools truly is highly comeptitive, your grades will sting a bit at the top schools. however, your test scores are very solid (if you noticed you have a 2360 combined). EC's make a big difference at the top schools, which could make some schools like Northwestern, Johns Hopkins, & possibly Penn matches if they are good, whereas poor EC's will leave them as reaches. Brown, Caltech, HYPSM, etc are reaches for just about everyone. But you are in the game, and certainly have a chance.</p>
<p>Clubs & Organizations:
-California Scholarship Federation (CSF) (2002-present)
-Junior Statesman of America (JSA) (2004-present)
-Science Olympiad (2002-present)
-Regional Science Olympiad 4th place medal in Cell Biology (indiv. event) March 2005
-Regional Science Olympiad 2nd place medal in Bottle Rocket (group event) March 2005
-Regional Science Olympiad 2nd place medal in Write It/Do It (indiv. event) February 2003
-weekly math tutor (2003-present)</p>
<p>Service/Volunteer:
-Catholic Hospital West: Northridge Hospital Medical Center Volunteen Program (2002-present): 400 + hours so far. shadow doctors in their daily routines, learned and observed from professionals in action (4 hrs/week)</p>
<p>Political Intern/Volunteer:
-worked for the John Kerry Campaign: 2004 presidential election</p>
<p>Honors/Awards/etc.:
-Harvard Summer Secondary School (June 25, 2005 - August 20, 2005) accepted and attended. Class: Biology S 1 AB. Grade: (not done yet heh)
-National Youth Leadership Forum in Medicine (June 27, 2004-July 6, 2004)
-Abstract on plant growth was selected and published in The Journal of Student Research Abstracts, Volume VIII, 2003</p>
<p>thank you al veyr much for replying. i appreciate it.</p>
<p>Kerry volunteer? I volunteered for the election last year, only for Bush. Guess who got the last laugh. lol. (not trying to start a fight, just couldn't help it.)</p>
<p>Your chances are quite good at UPenn and Brown, I see you in at USC, UCLA, and MAYBE UCB. Princeton and Harvard and Yale are so difficult for everyone. </p>
<p>If I were you, I'd visit Brown and UPenn, and apply early decision to one of those two. Your chances ED at either of these schools are very high, to say the least.</p>
<p>You should probably reconsider the AP's you are taking. If you cannot be successful on the exam, there is no point in taking it. It would be more worth your time to spend it on an EC relating to a special interest of yours. Keep in mind that at the schools you are applying to that nearly everyone will have amazing GPA's, class ranks, test scores etc..
A special interest EC will be what gets you in. It seems as though you're interested in medicine (becoming a doctor perhaps). It would look better to intern with a doctor than to take AP's that you are not successful on.</p>
<p>Just some advice I thought might be helpful.</p>
<p>If I'm an admissions officer looking at those numbers, I'd be led to believe that you were overachieving when you scored well on the SAT's. I'd think that you simply studied an endless amount. </p>
<p>I say this because everything is inconsistent</p>
<p>I agree with ravindra, except Johns Hopkins and Northwestern are not necessarily reaches for you</p>
<p>Oh..I hate HGM at NoHo
When I was a freshman, I tried to apply for it and since I had been in the US for only about 6 months, I asked them to give me a non-English IQ test. And then on the test day I found out that there's a English verbal part of my test. I didn't pass the test which required you to be like 99.9% (I got 97% since my verbal part is like 87%) Oh thanks! so people who don't speak good English are not smart??</p>
<p>sheema, I was wondering because I just graduated from the school down the street down by the overpass to the 134 (Oakwood). Best of luck to you in your application process. All you HGM Noho kids do well.</p>
<p>are 1's really that bad? like are they gunna mess up my chances? should i withold em? (i;m more than willing too, as long as it will help my chances)</p>
<p>and if anyone has more input on my position with the UC's i'd appreciate it a lot. (i'm mostly looking at berkeley, ucla, and ucsd and im nervous about them)</p>
<p>i'm applying to berkeley under the Molecular and Cell Bio (MCB) major, is it an impacted major? will this make it tougher to get in?
thanks a lot</p>
<p>are teh 1s going ot hurt me a lot? as in jeopardize my chances at the UC's? all i really care about is berkeley, ucla, and ucsd and i will withhold those 1s if they will marr may chances for admission.
is berkeley really a 'match' for my profile? i thought it'd be a reach for me and there was no way i could get in...</p>
<p>you are going to make all of the UCs most likely. you have good ECs and your gpa and SAT scores are definitely high enough. UCs dont care about AP scores so much.</p>