My chances PLEASE :)

Applying to College
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<p>Chance me please! :)</p>

<p>Gender: M
Race: Asian (Indian)
State: New York
College Class Year: 2016
High School: Public
High School Type: Its not the best but it is definitely top 25 in NYC.
Major: Pre-medicine
Income: 80,000 (I have 2 older sisters who are both in medical school)</p>

<p>My ACT score is 33
MY SAT score is 1900 but I'm not going to send it.
SAT Subject tests: Math 2= 750
US History= 730</p>

<p>School doesn't do ranking but I'd be top 10 percent of my Senior Class (900 people)</p>

<p>unweighted GPA-9th grade: 3.7 weighted- 4.0</p>

<p>Special Program:
I'm in a special program in my school called Carl Sagan. Its a Math and Science program, ranked 1-2 in NYC.
I went to a city competion from thousands who applied.</p>

<p>Sports:
Varsity Volleyball 2 years</p>

<p>Math:
Math Team 4 years</p>

<p>Honor Societies:
National Honor Society 4 years
Arista</p>

<p>Misc:
Key Club 3 years
Red Cross Club 4 years
Environmental Club 2 years
President of Chess Club</p>

<p>Volunteer work/ research:
40+ hours Hospital Internship</p>

<p>Others: Almost trilingual but definitely bilingual. </p>

<p>6 AP classes- Biology, World History, US History, Calculus BC, Art History, AP Government</p>

<p>Recommendations will be from my AP Biology teacher. I'm very chill with him. My other recommendation is from my Spanish Teacher who I'm best friends with. She also works at a Community college teaching spanish.</p>

<p>Here are my top colleges:
John Hopkins University
Dartmouth College
Cornell University
University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
NYU
George Washington
Northeastern University
Penn State - University Park
University of Chicago</p>

<p>What are my chances?</p>

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<p>What is your GPA NOW, since you only listed 9th grade?</p>

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<p>sorry i meant from 9th grade. my cumulative gpa is a 3.7</p>

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<p>Cornells a reach NYU is a match. But you know there’s a whole host of other factors that make these type of stats sheets almost completely useless except for predicting the “range” of colleges you’ll be in.</p>

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<p>IMHO</p>

<p>JHU - Reach
Dartmouth - Major Reach
Cornell - Reach
UofM - Reach
GW - Match
Northeastern - Safe Match
Penn State - Slight Reach
Chicago - Major Reach</p>

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<p>John Hopkins University- Mid reach.
Dartmouth College- Mid to high reach.
Cornell University- Mid reach.
University of Michigan: Ann Arbor- High match to low reach.
NYU- High match.
George Washington- Match.
Northeastern University- Safety/low match.
Penn State: University Park- Low Match.
University of Chicago- Mid to high reach.</p>

<p>If you wanna chance me back…(:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1211013”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1211013&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I think your ECs are a little thin and your course rigor may come into question for the most selective schools on your list. I think your chances are excellent for Penn State and Northeastern, your chances are good for Michigan, GWU, and NYU, while the other schools are longshots.</p>

<p>Make sure you have the financial considerations worked out for any OOS public schools you are applying to or any private schools-- that are not overly generous. Examples: Michigan, NYU, and others…</p>

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<p>Since your income isn’t high, and NYU, PSU, and UMich won’t likely give you much aid, why are you applying there?</p>

<p>What schools are your financial safeties?</p>

<p>BTW…for your other schools…I don’t think schools will take into account that you have siblings in med school for aid purposes.</p>

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<p>mom2collegekids, i did the aid estimate on the jhu website, it came out a total of 2100 dollars i need to pay for summester.</p>

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<p>*i did the aid estimate on the jhu website, it came out a total of 2100 dollars i need to pay for summester. *</p>

<p>Did you put that you’ll be the only undergrad? Or did you count your siblings as being in college?</p>

<p>And…what about NYU, PSU, and UMich…they don’t give good aid.</p>

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<p>i put that they are still in college.</p>

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<p>Often, siblings in grad/med/law school aren’t counted as being in college for FA purposes. You need to contact each school and find out their policies.</p>

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<p>Parth…</p>

<p>You said that you used JHU’s FA calculator. The JHU FA calculator CLEARLY states that you do NOT include siblings in graduate school.</p>

<p>Number of children in college (include student and other siblings who are attending a 4 year UNDERGRADUATE college or university). DO NOT include parents in college or siblings in graduate school.</p>

<p>You need to redo the FA calculator and ONLY count yourself as being in college.</p>