Need Help!!!!

Applying to College
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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>I'm currently a senior, and I'm completely done with all my college apps. But now I'm worried. I'm a little anxious so I just wanted to know what my chances would be for the colleges that I applied to. So here are my stats:</p>

<p>GPA(the killer): 3.56 (UW) (Screwed up bad in freshman and sophomore year but 4.0 in junior and currently 4.0 too ) 4.0(W)
SAT: 2370 (M: 800 CR: 800 W: 770) Super Score: 2390 (took it twice)
ACT: 35 (M: 36 S: 35 R: 35 W:35)
SAT II: Math II (800) Chem (800) Bio (800) Physics (720) Lit (770)
AP: Bio (5) Chem (5) Stats (5) Lit (5)-(huge surprise) US (3)
Classes this year- AP Lit; AP Physics; AP Environmental; AP Psych; AP Econ; AP Calc BC (yea you may think I'm trolling but this is like the typical schedule for everyone I know)</p>

<p>Well those are my grades and tests and now to the ECs:</p>

<p>USABO Semi Finalist</p>

<p>Summer Medical Research at UCSF (published and letter of rec from professor)</p>

<p>Water Project in India (With a help of a water purification company, I went to some villages where my parents grew up and established a water purification system. I had I job of building 5 water purification tanks, convincing the politicians there to pay for the project, and educating the people living there why it was necessary to have clean water)</p>

<p>Those are my top ECs and here are my rest:</p>

<p>Around 50 hours of aiding autistic kids at my Mom's school (letter of rec from teacher)</p>

<p>Around 240 hours of hospital volunteer</p>

<p>I shadowed a interventional cardiologist for around 40 hours</p>

<p>I played B-ball for like 2 years and Track for 2 years</p>

<p>I went to Jamaica over Winter Break this year to do a internship there. (Amazing experience highly recommend this for anyone who wants to go into the med field)</p>

<p>Letters of Rec:</p>

<p>AP Bio Teacher, English Teacher, AP Physics Teacher, US History teacher (I think this was crap), AP Chem Teacher</p>

<p>Water Purification Director, UCSF professor, Cardiologist, Doctor in Jamaica, Autistic Volunteer Class Teacher.</p>

<p>I think my essays were pretty good. My AP Lit teacher helped me out cause we're hecka chill and I got help from this Ivy Max Program for college apps (I know you guys prob think I'm nooob right, but it was actually really helpful)</p>

<p>Well that's pretty much it
And here are the schools I applied to:</p>

<p>UChicago
Stanford
Cal Tech
Johns Hopkins
WUSTL
Boston 7 year med
UMKC BS/MD
Northwestern (BS/MD) (but I wouldn't mind going even if I didn't get BS/MD)
UCLA
UC Berkley
Brown
UCSD (BS/MD)
Harvard (I know I got no chance, but my mom told me to)</p>

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<p>Did you apply to any safety schools? The schools on your list are very selective & hard to predict for any qualified applicant. If your essays and letters of recommendation are strong, I think you have a chance to be admitted to some. But if you were my child I would also have a less selective school on the list.</p>

<p>There’s a website called parchment where you enter your stats and schools and it calculates your likelihood (%) to be admitted compared to other applicants.</p>

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<p>You have a 3.56GPA and you didn’t apply to many middle tier schools.</p>

<p>UChicago :Reach (Cares too much about GPA)
Stanford :High Reach (Cares too much about GPA)
Cal Tech :High Reach (Cares too much about GPA)
Johns Hopkins :Reach (Cares too much about GPA))
WUSTL :Low Reach
Boston 7 year med : Reach/high Reach (Highly selective programs such as this one don’t consider anyone below 3.75GPA)
UMKC BS/MD :High Match
Northwestern (BS/MD):High Reach for BS/MD, Reach for Regular (Cares too much about GPA)
UCLA:Match
UC Berkley: Reach (Cares WAYYY too much about GPA)
Brown:High Reach (Cares too much about GPA)
UCSD (BS/MD):High Match/Low Reach
Harvard (I know I got no chance, but my mom told me to): You got this right ,No chance</p>

<p>Who helped you come up with this list, you may get into one of these schools but you are risking so much by applying to so many reach schools!! What a position to be in. And you have NO safeties ??</p>

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<p>It looks like the OP is a California resident. If so, the safety school is probably the closest CCC because after two years there, the OP will have preference to transfer into the UC system. With a CCC as the safety, the OP doesn’t have to apply until after getting the admissions results from all the places on the list.</p>

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<p>First of all thank you guys so much for the honest chances. And happymomof1 your absolutely right about CCC and transfer into UC. But the schools I listed above are the schools I applied to for RD. I already got accepted to Emory as EA, so thats probably going to be my safety school. Now I’m just trying to see if I can get into any better school than Emory.</p>

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<p>^Emory is a great school.</p>

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<p>Your right drac313, but the thing is that my dream schools are university of chicago and WUSTL. I like emory too, especially the campus, but I still wanted to try and see if I could get into either one of those. As for the other schools, except for UCLA, UCB, and UCSD, I just applied because they were top ranked. Like I would seriously go to WUSTL, UofC, or Emory over everyone of those schools (except for Harvard, maybe ;))</p>

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<p>bump!!!</p>