KINETIC ENERGY IS RELATIVE!!!! Also, chance? <3

Colleges and Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>Entering my senior year at a private Catholic School in San Diego, CCHS. Your two minutes will be reciprocated with my utmost gratitude</p>

<p>LOCATION: San Diego, California
ETHNICITY: White as can be
MAJOR: Chem E., or the closest alternative</p>

<p>GPA
UW: 3.96
W: 4.45</p>

<p>SAT I Reasoning: 2080 (ugh). 690R, 720M, 670W
SAT IIs: Math II - 770, Chemistry 800
ACT: 34 Composite; 36 science, 33 math</p>

<p>Classes, omitting normals
Freshman:
No 5 point classes offered; notable classes are
Advanced English
Geometry(A)</p>

<p>Soph:
English 2 Honors
Algebra 2/Trig Honors
AP European (received a 3; basically a movie watching class taught by our V water polo coach. fond memories, non of which related to history)</p>

<p>Junior:
AP Chem (received a 5)
AP Enviro (received a 5)
Pre-Calc H</p>

<p>Senior Year planned schedule is as follows, omitting normals:
AP Gov
AP Econ
AP Phys B
AP Calc BC</p>

<p>ECs are mediocre
-Piano for 10+ years, Sax for 7 years, Tai Kwon Do 7 years
-Science and Engineering Club, 9th-12th grade
-USD Chemistry Olympiad Participant
-~150 combined service hours
-JETS 2011 team participant
-2011 Summer Internship at Fitch Even Tabin & Flannery Law Firm. I'm typing this from my desk atm, probably should get back to work soon.
-NHS, CSF, 50+ hours of official tutoring
-JV tennis junior year? Hah</p>

<p>Hobbies..... :I
-I make fireworks, man
-Dude, I build computers
-I play a lot of video games, this is the clincher</p>

<p>"Awards"
-Certificate of Merit up to level 6
-Bausch and Lomb Science Award (11th grade)
-Honors awards miscellanea</p>

<p>Essay will be along the lines of my growing experience from an anxiety disorder, or my passion for chem and tech. I'll make it work, idk</p>

<p>Let me know if you need more info!
Thanks for your time</p>

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<p>Yes or no will suffice</p>

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<p>I would say you stand a reasonable chance in ED if you are looking at the Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Dept. In regular, I think the odds are against anyone who applies. California is over-represented at a lot of top colleges and if you’re a boy, then the odds are even less if you’re looking at engineering. </p>

<p>ED: 40%
RD: 10%</p>

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<p>Thanks. Are you saying that I have even less of a chance for “regular”? Normally engineering colleges are harder to get into…</p>

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<p>Competitive. Would recommend not sitting SATs since they’re so much lower than your ACTs. </p>

<p>Also majors don’t matter for JHU (BME is the one exception). When you get to JHU you can major in anything you want that isn’t BME.</p>

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<p>However saying you want to be a science major while all of your extracurricular activities are in history will raise some eyebrows. Tell a story with your application. Take a chance.</p>