Need some help deciding safeties, and chance me please?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Well, nobody was helping on my other thread, so here is another
Hey all,
I plan on doing premed, then moving on to Biomedical engineering. I want to get a general idea of my chances at:
1)Stanford
2)UC Berkeley
3)UC San Diego
4)UC Irvine
5)Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
6)Yale
7)Brown
8)Johns Hopkins
9)Rice
10)Cornell
11)Santa Clara University
12)University of Southern California
13)Purdue
And please tell me if I should get rid of any, and what safeties I should add.</p>

<p>I am a male Pakistani Muslim, and go to a very competitive public high school in the Silicon Valley. We send about 11 or 12 to Stanford alone, and last year, about 17 out of 83 were admitted. Many other students go to renown institutions such as Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard, Princeton, etc...
Weighted GPA: 3.40 (Low, I know...Sophomore and Junior Years, averaged form transcript, no PE)
Unweighted GPA: 3.20 (Sophomore and Junior years, averaged from transcript, not sure if includes PE)
Class Rank: Our school doesn't do this</p>

<p>ACT Composite: 33
Breakdown: Eng 32 Reading 34 Math 35 Science 32 Writing Subscore 8</p>

<p>SAT: Verbal 650 Math 710 Writing 760
Total: 2120</p>

<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Biology M: 720
Literature: 730
Math Level 2: 800</p>

<p>AP Tests:
Biology: 3
Spanish: 3</p>

<p>Extracurricular: Student at an Islamic school sine grade three, and graduated in sophomore year, and now I am a part of the staff, and help the teachers teach, and will move on to teaching there when I go to college. Also, I started a non-profit religious community service organization with a friend, independent of my parents. We have only done one project though, which was to help the senior citizen neighbors of a local mosque(mostly non-Muslims) around the house for a day, and do things for them that they would find difficult on their own. I am also a member of the Muslim American Society, and will enter a leadership position when I graduate into college. I am very passionate about all of this, a you can tell. (I may sound boring right now, but rest assured my essays will be about my true feelings.)</p>

<p>Volunteering: I volunteered for about a year weekly at a local Blood Center.</p>

<p>I don't know if you need anything else to be able to help me, but just let me know.</p>

<p>OH:
Senior courses: English Honours, AP Psychology, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, and BioTech.
I want to major in biomedical engineering.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance
-T</p>

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<p>You should have no problem getting into UC schools, since you are instate.</p>

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<p>You are going to have a tough go at the very selective, private colleges you have on your list. Those colleges are super reaches for everyone and your stats are low for your plans and for those schools. I also wonder if you are truly prepared to do this at some of those high powered schools if you should get into them. Premed at JHU, for example, is a tough gautlet. If you were my kid, I would suggest a school like Santa Clara to help you successfully get through the tough premed regiment so that you can get into a medical school.</p>

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<p>Hey, thanks everyone
To tell you the truth, premed is actually a last resort, and I will do that overseas if I have to, since I can get an MD there as a surgeon in 5 years instead of like 10 here with the same qualifications. I am more focused on biomedical engineering, and am very confident I can excel. I was actually very good at biology, and the reason I didn't get a 5 on the AP exam was because my math class was one of the most rigorous in the bay area, and I was stupid enough to take it with a heavy courseload. And, in my biotech class, I am, according to my teacher, the cream of the crop, and I am enthusiastic and everything about it.
Thanks again</p>

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<p>Also, what are my chances for Northwestern? Because that has Bachelors, Masters, and Doctorate for my major, and I planning on going all the way through. Not even Stanford has this. Thanks again.</p>

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<p>Dude... seriously. Northwestern is ranked within top 20 in the country. Your GPA is low and you have very little ECs outside of your religious community. Your scores are however decent for a lot of the schools. </p>

<p>I'd say reach to most schools on your list... You should look into Cal States and Lower tier UCs as safeties.</p>

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<p>I'd say that Berkeley's also probably a reach; your GPA is way lower than the average (the average weighted UC GPA of those accepted at berkeley was 4.18), and while your SAT scores are above the average, I don't think they'd be enough to compensate.
Your ECs also seem a bit limited; all in your religious community and don't seem to have much to do with your intended major.</p>

<p>Stanford, Yale, and Brown are definitely reaches; I'd say your chances there aren't looking that great.
Northwestern too looks like a reach.</p>

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<p>Okay, thanks
I do have Cal Poly and Purdue as safeties, but any more?
UCSD is apparently a match, and I definitely would not mind going there</p>

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<p>I see a humongous gap between the levels of your schools. I honestly don't know anything about schools in Cali, but schools like Brown, hopkins, and cornell are all about on the same level... I think a school just teeeny below them would be necessary before like, USC comes into the picture.
I think youll get into rice.
and you are right about your scores and mine! they are like twins... and i just began learning arabic.</p>

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<p>Starbucks, are you sure you aren't my long lost twin or something?
I just began learning Arabic too!
What the heck?
Besides that, I know Spanish, Urdu, and obviously English</p>

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<p>1)Stanford - no
2)UC Berkeley - maybe/reach
3)UC San Diego - maybe
4)UC Irvine - yes
5)Cal Poly San Luis Obispo - yes
6)Yale - no
7)Brown - no
8)Johns Hopkins - no
9)Rice - no
10)Cornell - no
11)Santa Clara University - easy
12)University of Southern California - reach
13)Purdue - maybe</p>

<p>I think you should consider some more safety schools and technical schools like cal poly. Your gpa is what will be tough for admission, for instance a 2100 and 3.9 weighted with mega AP/honors and ec's of state championships in academic competitions from a school just as good as Saratoga or Palo Alto or wherever you go and that'll get you wait-listed at Northwestern, USC, and rejected at Brown, Yale, and Stanford. </p>

<p>Your best bet is cal poly or ucsd or maybe Cal/UCLA, their admissions are tough but unpredictable. besides for you it'll be all about your grad school not undergrad for bio engineering.</p>

<p>good luck!</p>

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<p>so i won't reiterate what the person above said b/c i believe what they said, but what i will say is embrace your culture in your essays, be grateful for the opportunity, be cheesy but don't make it obvious. how you do that is your style. do that and that will help at all places. </p>

<p>p.s. yeah to what the person said above, the competition to stanford from palo alto and surrounding areas: insane. literally i have friends with 4.0s who might not make it. apply anyways though. good luck</p>

<p>chance me, too <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/569604-so-last-one-had-too-many-errors-one-s-better.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/569604-so-last-one-had-too-many-errors-one-s-better.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thanks
Anyone else?</p>

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<p>p.s. yeah to what the person said above, the competition to stanford from palo alto and surrounding areas: insane. literally i have friends with 4.0s who might not make it. apply anyways though. good luck</p>

<p>--
this just depresses me.
I'm from Cupertino and applying to Stanford, so I know how that works.
They accept like 2 people out of the 039428093248092348092348 that apply from my school every year.</p>

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<p>Really?
They accepted 17 out of 83 from my school last year. And only 11 went.</p>

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<p>They really don't seem to like my high school.
It's very very very asian (70-80%) and I guess a lot less legacies than you get in Palo Alto.</p>

<p>I heard it was partially because it was some kids who apparently lied on their apps and got caught or something, but I don't know.
It's a mystery.
But yeah, every year some huge number of kids applies and only a couple get accepted and I think just about all of them go unless they get into HarvardPrincetonYale.</p>

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<p>Wow that sucks.
A couple of idiots ruined it for the rest of you.
Do you go to Lynbrook or something? I'm at Paly</p>

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<p>Close, at Monta Vista.
Like Lynbrook, only better.
haha.</p>

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<p>Nice;
I might know you, but idk. I know some people at MV lawl</p>

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<p>well, I'm not asian, so that probablynarrows it down a lot.
but I don't really know anyone at Paly other than this one girl who transfered there from MV frosh year</p>