Johns Hopkins? Any safeties/matches?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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If you could suggest a safety/match for me, I will love you forever! :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2370 (CR 800, Writing 800, Math 770)
ACT: 35 (Math 33, English 34, Sci 35, Reading 36, Writing 11) - from June freshman year, will hopefully improve
PSAT: 235 (CR 80, Writing 80, Math 75)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86 (should go up after this semester)
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), US History (5), Psychology (5)
Junior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Comp Sci, AP US Gov, AP Calc AB, AP Biology, H Spanish 3, H English
Senior Year Course Load: Will take AP English, Honors Calc 2 (my school doesn’t offer AP Calc BC), AP Chem, AP Econ, and Internship
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing of that caliber but made it to DECA International Conference and Destination Imagination Global Finals (got 19th at DI)

Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS- 2 years, DECA (cluster leader)- 3 years, Students Without Borders- 3 years, HOSA- 1 year, Piano- 7 years (# of years counted at end of high school, so I have currently done -1 of all those numbers)
Job/Work Experience: Going to have a summer job (entry-level, probably Taco Bell lol)
Volunteer/Community service: NHS & Students Without Borders, volunteering at children’s museum, maybe at UMich this summer (depends on a lottery)
Summer Activities: Summer school for past few summers (grad requirements and once to redo a class I got a B in), this summer hopefully either SEE at UMich (engineering camp, 50% acceptance) or RISE at Boston (research internship, 19% acceptance)
Essays: my writing is usually eh 7/10
Teacher Recommendation: probably generic, am not close with any teachers
Counselor Rec: Generic

Other
State: Michigan
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian subc.)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: upper middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nope

If you chance me, thank you!!

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If you retake any of those scores you will only hurt your application. You are a extremely one sided from the looks of it. Almost no ECs, GPA is good, but those test scores might make up for it. Mediocre recs and bad to okay essays can hurt you big time.

I’m sure you already know, but being a high scoring low EC Indian applicant is VERY stereotypical and a lot of the schools like turning down high stat applicants (HYP caliber schools accept about 1/5 36ers).

You need to stop worrying about scores;your scores are STELLAR. Work on doing things in your community e.g. not neccisarily academic summer camps just stuff thay shows you’re involved in the community.

Side note, June after freshman year is part of sophomore year I think.

UWashington has a great med school… UCSD, WUSTL(more of a low reach), Wake Forest, IUB, and Emory would be good places to look at.

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JHU: low reach.

One of important things for applying to top schools is that you have to have some significant relationship with your teachers. If your recom letters is nothing more than: XXX is a good student. than it’s hard to know what kind of person you are…
Also, don’t retake SAT/ACT. They are good as they are now.

What’s your major?