I Need Your Help!!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Alright, this is my first post on this website, so I basically have no idea what I'm doing, but PLEASE chance me:</p>

<p>Currently Junior in Summer
Male
Southwest Indian heritage (Kerala)
Public High School- rarely sends grads to top schools
Current Family Income is about $130,000</p>

<p>SATI's: 700 CR, 740 Math, 770 Writing, so 2210 total
SATII's: World History 780, Biology E 740, US History 760, Chemistry 770
NYS Regents Grades: Earth Science 94, Biology 96, Math AB 97, Chemistry 99, World History 97, Math B 97, Spanish 100, and English 100</p>

<p>Current GPA: About 96.5 unweighted (don't get weighted 'till next year)
Rank: haven't recieved official yet, but about 7/210 (with unweighted GPA)?
APs: World History: 5, Biology: 5, waiting for US History, Psychology, Chemistry, and English Literature scores. Will graduate with 9 APs total, hopefully high scores on all! :D Also took some classes sponsored by state colleges: Science Reseach (97 Avg), Spanish (97 Avg), will be taking another year of Spanish next year and a year of English
Honors Courses: Earth Science, Math A, English 9, Bio, Global Studies, Math AB, English 10, Chemistry, Math B, Calculus</p>

<p>EC's (+ means continuing next year) (not in order)</p>

<p>Played Keyboard 9th-10th grade
NYS Math League for 3+ years
Local Math League for 1+ year
Model UN for 3+ years
Cultures Beyond Club for 3+ years (Treasurer- but club practically dissolved this year)
Mar Gregorious Syrian Orthodox Student Association for 2+ years (a youth group I helped found in our church, Secretary, Regional and National Church Representative)
Academic Team for 2+ years
Vice President of Class for 2+ years
Yearbook- Co-Editor of People and Editor of Index in 9th grade (stopped after 9th)
Took JHU CTY summer Genetics course @ Sienna in 2005
Took JHU CTY online course for AP Bio (Got a 5)
Went with People to People to Japan in summer of 2006
Science Honor Society 2+ years
Spanish Honor Society 2+ years
RHOKAPPA Social Studies Honor Society for 1+ year
Math Honor Society for 1+ year
English Honor Society for 1+ year
National Honor Society for 1+ year
400+ Community Service Hours for Altar Boy at local church (if you haven't guessed, I'm very church-focused)
Will be taking an internship this summer @ a psychiatric center- very intense, 7-5 everyday</p>

<p>Awards: (not many don't worry)
Several Course Awards (for highest grade in class)
National Merit (195 on PSATs, yea its a wonder to me 2)
High Honor Roll for 3+ years
idk... i guess that's it for awards... </p>

<p>COLLEGES:
Reach: Johns Hopkins U. (first choice), Georgetown U., Columbia U., Stanford U., Harvard U. University of Pennsylvania
Range: Miami U., Boston U., New York U., Rutgers U., Emory College, Princeton U.
Safety: SUNY Binghampton (need more)</p>

<p>Okay, I know I have to narrow my list. My mentality is, for each stratum, to apply to 1 pre-med school, 1 psychology/clinical psychology school, and 1 international relations school. The thing is, I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO RANK THE SCHOOLS!!! I don't know which schools are better, like for example, will JHU have a better pre-med program (yea I know, no such thing, just do your best at the courses you can in a college you fit in) than Harvard? for primary care? Will it get me into the graduate school I want? I don't know! I'm even more lost for the psychology schools and the international relations schools. PLEASE HELP ME!!! </p>

<p>I would really appreciate posts from Bigredmed and bluedevilmike. JHU is my first choice because I really feel like I fit there, and I need to know if I'll get in there. </p>

<p>If you guys can suggest any others schools in pre-med, psychology general, or international relations for each stratum, IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!! also, please give evidence for your suggestion!!!</p>

<p>once again, thank you SO MUCH for your time, I sorry to waste it...</p>

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<p>anyone? please?</p>

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<p>don't understand how Princeton is in the "range" category??</p>

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<p>oops. that's supposed to be reach... </p>

<p>still, PLEASE HELP ME</p>

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<p>You'll get your range and safety schools, and about half of the reach colleges. You have nice ECs, SATs, and GPA.. but.. but NO MATH IIC ?!? YOU'RE A BAD BOY!</p>

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<p>thank you very much! really? a math 2 is necessary?</p>

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<p>Well math is one of the easier (IMO) subject tests to get an 800 in.</p>

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<p>oh... do you think if i take the test in november i can still make it for early action/decision? </p>

<p>and if i changed my reaches to: Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Rice, Georgetown, and Johns Hopkins, what do u think my chances would be? I'm also considering (again) Cornell and Columbia and maybe UPenn</p>

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<p>First, I think your chances are pretty decent for Johns Hopkins. Your SATs are all in their middle 50% and your GPA/rank are great. I really think that's more of a match/high match for you than a reach.</p>

<p>Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Cornell, Columbia, Penn...all reaches. But they are for everyone. You're certainly an above-average student, but everyone applying to those schools has credentials that are miles above the ordinary. It won't hurt to apply, seeing as you certainly have a chance at one or two acceptances from that list, but just make sure you don't put all your eggs in that basket.</p>

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<p>thanks! see, my dream career, so to speak, is to become either a psychiatrist or a neuroscientist (maybe neurosurgeon) and join Doctors without Borders (a.k.a. Medicins Sans Frontieres). So i wanted to get the best pre-med/psychology education I could. Any suggestions? I know that basically there is no such thing, that you just have to do good at core science classes and have good advisors and stuff... but still. Stanford has the best psych. dept. in the nation, I've heard, and JHU is like a powerhouse of med students, and the others are something of a compromise in between, or so I think. Please correct me, offer suggestions if u can. Thanks!</p>