hopkins ED deferred... now a lost soul

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>hey guys, i just got deferred from hopkins, which i thought i'd get in. so now i'm basically lost and dunno what other colleges to apply to. want to do premed so prob major in bio or something. any comments & suggestions as to what colleges (reaches, fits, safeties) to consider are VERY much appreciated. thanx.</p>

<p>asian male
SAT 770v 730v (yes, my v was higher than my m :O ), single sitting
SAT 2: 730 bio, 720 math ic, 660 writing (ahhh!!)
attending a very good public hs (probably one of the best public nationally... not sure though)
working towards an IB diploma
school doesnt rank, but prob top 10%
gpa: ? As/Bs, took all honors in 9th&10th, IB in 11th & 12th</p>

<p>Science Olympiad: 10th, 11th, 12th (the team is great... 3rd, 3rd nationally last 2 yrs. individual awards: State 5th place and National 7th place)
Science Club: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Physics Olympics: 11th, 12th (multiple event captains, event 1st place)
Math Team: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
National Honor Society: 12th
Philosophy Club: 11th, 12th (president)
Student Council: 11th, 12th (rep to school board)
Stock Club: 10th, 11th, 12th
Extreme Outdoors Club: 11th, 12th
Track & Field team: 10th (Varsity Letter)
Indoors Track team: 10th (Varsity Letter)</p>

<p>tutoring: 11th
Volunteer at Hospital: 11th, 12th (<100 hrs though... ouch)
other volunteer stuff
= totaling at least 150 hrs
plus, for NHS we do volunteer projects every month (food drive, toys drive, collect money for charities...)</p>

<p>PVJSA – Premier League Basketball: 10th (placing 1st seed in the tournament; starter for team)</p>

<p>Pennsylvania Governor’s School of Health Care</p>

<p>research project on proteomics (summer between 11th and 12th grade)</p>

<p>awards: the usual stuff from school... "honor roll every quarter" award, a couple certificates of merit, nhs inductee, PHEAA top 5000 highest SAT/ACT scorer (got it in the mail yesterday)</p>

<p>my "hook" for app essays: have lived in 5 different countries, gone to school in 3 of them, speak (or maybe spoke? haha) 4 languages fluently, taking a 5th language for IB</p>

<p>can get excellent letter of recs from teachers and other adults that can "comment on my character"</p>

<p>o and finally, i think i might be considered as int'l student since i dont have permanent residency yet... and i probably need money</p>

<p>that's pretty much it... thank you for your time!</p>

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<p>well as a bio major your bio satII seems weak as do your math scores for a place like JHU. You seem more well rounded, maybe consider a school like northwestern.</p>

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<p>wow, you were deferred from JHU with those stats?
what was your exact GPA and courseload?
how were essays, recs, etc?</p>

<p>all I can say about your ECs is they were probably far too common. if you think about it, there are prolly numerous applicants of JHU who want to go into medicine/claim their good at math and thus their biggest ECs are like science olympiad, math accounts, etc. try getting involved in something outside of that, I dunno...i'm guessing there were just other applicants like you but with higher scores. so they took maybe the top 5% applicant with the science/math clubs over you b/c of your GPA. I don't see your SAT scores being the factor for your deferral, either.</p>

<p>the reason I'm surprised you were deferred is because the only two ppl I know, both friends of mine, who applied ED to JHU were actually accepted this past week. one I knew would get in b/c she still had an uw 4.0 with IB and whatnot and decent SAT scores. she wasn't a natl merit semifin. or anything, though (she was close tho). umm, I was shocked to hear the other guy got in. he's a real smart guy but I know he doesn't have perfect grades or anything. both of my friends are majoring in something like biology, too. perhaps their hook was not being involved in things like science olympiad and math counts. their ECs were more well-rounded, including debate, volunteering in general, I think some church activities for the guy, and so forth. one thing I do know is both had heavy hospital/medical-related volunteering (much more than 100)</p>

<p>anyways, don't give up on JHU yet. try your hardest and finish this semester strong enough since it could get you in RD.</p>

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<p>thanx for the comments... i'm thinking about applying to upenn and cornell too. what're my chances?</p>

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<p>ummm u should have gotten into JHU. with those stats u have a great chance at penn and cornell....unless ur essays/recommendations were bad. get those up and u will be a shoe-in</p>

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<p>wow what were those JHU people thinking?? you seem more than qualified.. though it may be easier for in-staters i guess (girl i knew got in last yr didnt have stats as good as yours lol) </p>

<p>i agree; cornell and upenn are good choices but you might also want to look at other selective schools like rice, columbia, etc. </p>

<p>good luck!! hehe im also asian and did much better in verbal than in math</p>

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<p>did you apply to BME by any chance?</p>

<p>because thats the only reason i can see them not accepting you.</p>

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<p>no i applied biology cuz i have my heart set on med school and i know that hopkins BME is really tough to get in to, and quite honestly, i wanted to increase my chances of acceptance as much as possible (because i love jhu soooo much), so i went the safer route and applied bio.</p>

<p>my essays & recs were great too (my english teacher said that the essay i wrote is one of the best that i've written)</p>

<p>i am REALLY starting to think that my status as an international applicant is what killed me... any comments?</p>