Just for the heck of it

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Nothing too serious... I'm just curious about what y'all think so here goes</p>

<p>Ethnicity: Asian Indian from CA
Intended Concentration: International Relations/Poli-sci and Pre-med
Schools (just my top choices):</p>

<p>*Harvard
*Yale
*Stanford
*Dartmouth
*Brown
*Upenn
*Duke
*Rice</p>

<p>GPA: 4.0 uw... may become a 3.9something after midyear report (damn Calc)
SAT I: 2310 (770 CR, 740 M, 800 W)
SAT IIs: 770 Lit, 740 Bio M, 720 USH, 670 Math 2 (yeah i hate math)
AP Tests: Bio 5, USH 5, Eng Lang 5, Spanish Lang 5
This year I'm taking: Macroecon AP, American Gov Honors, Eng Lit AP, Physics Honors, Calc AB AP</p>

<p>EC's: </p>

<p>Student Government (9-12):
*Class President (12)
*Class Secretary (10,11)</p>

<p>Speech & Debate (9-12):
*Chair of Extemp Speaking (11,12)
*Class Rep (10)
*Numerous Awards - SCU champion (10), 12th in State (10, 11), 5th at Stanford tournament (11)</p>

<p>Student-Run magazine (9-12):
*Editor-in-Chief (11,12)
*Editor (10)</p>

<p>School Newspaper (10-12):
*Editor (11,12)
*Columnist (11,12)</p>

<p>Habitat For Humanity (10-12):
*VP (12)</p>

<p>Christian Fellowship Club (11-12):
*Cell Group Leader (12)</p>

<p>Hospital Volunteer (9-10):
*140 hours</p>

<p>Work experience:</p>

<p>*Doctor Shadowing/research on anti-aging medicine for 2 weeks (about 60 hrs)
*Doctor Shadowing at local hospital since 1/05... about 4 hrs/week</p>

<p>subjective stuff:
Essays: decent I guess... I emphasized my interest in medicine, and related it to a personal experience
Recs: good</p>

<p>hmm... did I leave anything else out? well anyway... don't hold back here... apps are already turned in, I can't change anything now... this is just for fun!</p>

<p>thanks everyone.</p>

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<p>JW...what are your safeties?</p>

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<p>I'm <em>hoping</em> that UCLA/UCB will be matches and UCSD/UCI are safeties... I also applied to a handful of other colleges for their combined medical programs, and though I doubt I'll actually get into the combined med programs, I should be able to get into the undergrads so if I had to fall back on something I'd have options.</p>

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<p>I don't know your chances...although you look like a strong applicant, but I'm wondering why you didn't apply to JHU?</p>

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<p>well.. I hear JHU massacres its pre-med students and then they dont even allow everyone to apply to med school. so even though 95% of students get into med school once they graduate... not everyone got to apply. so its like meh... screw it.</p>

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<p>Undignified:</p>

<p>UCB/UCLA: Safe Match
UCSD: Safety
UCI: Super Safety</p>

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<p>anyone bold enough to wager a guess about those other schools or are they all just too damn random? lol</p>

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<p>you are a very strong applicant i would say...only thing is ec's might be a little common but that's really splitting hairs...good luck!
i'm sure you'll get in somewhere very selective...it's always a tossup tho</p>

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<p>thanks thats encouraging.... but yeah im not too happy w/ my ec's either... I think if I get shot down at the top schools it will have been because I'm too similar to everyone else. meh whatever we'll see i guess.</p>

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<p>tough tough shot at HYPS or those leagues... ec's aren't the best. but good shot at the others!</p>

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<p>yeah I figured HYS was kinda out of reach... kind of sucks cuz I'd love to go to Harvard... but then again who wouldn't, right?</p>

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<p>ESSAYS ARE SOOO IMPORTANT FOR STANFORD. PERIOD. IF THEY STAND OUT OUT OF 2000 APPLICANTS, YOU COULD DO SOME DAMAGE!</p>

<p>sorry for the caps, i just know that's just really big with them. take it from someone who's been rejected already, and taken a look at some accepted people's essays. not everyone's scores are on the same level, and that's because it's not the make/break factor for them. essays play a huge part. i assume you've already turned in your apps, so there's no use worrying. just hope that your essays makes their eyes pop out.</p>

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<p>so I've heard... my long essay for Stanford wasn't too great, but that's okay cuz I don't really wanna go to stanford (I wanna go to the east coast!). But I think I fixed them up nice enough for the schools I care about (all of them except stanford lol).</p>

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<p>yeah, i dont know how much different east coast schools do their admission process</p>

<p>i haven't been rejected from those schools yet
[i'm more of a lab rat than a competitive applicant]</p>

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<p>UCSD is super safety.</p>

<p>UCLA/UCB: Safe match, you're pretty much in.</p>

<p>HYS UPenn: Slight Reach</p>

<p>All other schools: Match</p>