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Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>i didnt really think i was gonna do this but i guess i couldnt resist succumbing to the temptation.</p>

<p>gender: male
grade: 12
race: indian
school: public in Illinois
ranking: doesn't rank</p>

<p>SATs: 2210 (750 reading, 790 math, 670 writing)</p>

<p>did not send this one for all my schools</p>

<p>SATII: really slacked off on these. 700 chem, 730 Math2</p>

<p>ACT: 35 (35 english, 36 science, 33 math, 34 reading, 9 writing)</p>

<p>APs:
-World History (4)
-European History (5)
-Chem (4)
-English Lang (5)
-Spanish Lang (4)
-Calc BC (4)</p>

<p>Senior Year Scedule
-ap bio
-ap physics
-ap english
-ap macro and finance
-ap psych
-calculus III (dual credit w/ u of i)</p>

<p>GPA:
-4.41 (weighted)
-3.8ish (?) (unweighted)</p>

<p>-ECs
-DECA (President)
-Science Olympiad (varsity and Vice President)
-Math Team (Varsity)
-Biotech Club (inaugural member, do a lot of advanced biotech protocols)
-speech team (varsity)
-student council (committee chair)
-tennis team (jv1, varsity this year)
-other minor ones like spanish honors society and robotics</p>

<p>Summer Paid internship at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
2 week biotech research project at NIU
Student Representative on Finance Advisory Board in local city gov
Camp Cardiac program at Northwestern
Young Scholars Program at UChicago
course at MIT
200 volunteering hours (most at local hospital)
other programs at universities/hospitals</p>

<p>and i won this scholarship from a local college and have taken 2 courses from them with college students in the evenings</p>

<p>awards
-national merit semifinalist
-AP scholar with distinction
-the usual honor roll stuff from my school
-won a bunch of awards at state and regionals and nationals for DECA, science, math, and speech
other misc ones</p>

<p>recs
-1 will be my anatomy teacher for last year and my ap bio teacher for this year (he really likes me so im sure it will be solid)
-english teacher one is really good
-additional one is from fermilab internship mentor (very good)
-counselor will be okay to good (havent read)</p>

<p>okay so that turned out to be longer than i thought. sorry.</p>

<p>my high reach schools are: stanford, duke, northwestern, washu, BU (med program)</p>

<p>my mid reach to match schools are: rice, vanderbilt, USC, case western, georgia tech, michigan, uwashington</p>

<p>my safeties are: UIUC, alabama</p>

<p>what do you guys think?</p>

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<p>does anybody have any ideas?</p>

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<p>please chance!! haha I spent too much time on this not to get any replies :(</p>

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<p>Woww man you are a truly impressive candidate! i believe that your chances are great at every school you mentioned, you’ve got everything you need so relax, write great essays and hope for the best. I’m sure you’ll get into somewhere great. Good luck.</p>

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<p>Apply to Northwestern’s med program if you’re interested in that stuff as well. I recommend only sending in your ACT score if you can…
You are a qualified candidate, but your unweighted GPA is a bit low. Make sure to write amazing essays, and you shouldn’t have a problem getting into most of these schools.</p>

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<p>Yeah I am applying to HPME for Northwestern and the med program at WashU but I don’t really consider that a factor since it is highly unlikely that I will get in there with the kind of competition they have for those limited spots. Haha also, I am kind of hoping that I do not get into Stanford or one of those combined med programs because I am doing ED at Rice and it would really suck to turn down one of those extremely prestigious programs since I will be committed at Rice. I know that there are ways that you can back out of ED claiming money but I’m not too sure how feasible that is.</p>

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<p>Man impressive stuff. I’d say you’re a reach at stanford and duke but the rest you have a great shot! Were you planning on retaking the Chem Subject Test? I know BU requires it for their med program so that could hurt you a little bit. Good Luck!</p>

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<p>in all except stanford.</p>

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<p>You definitely have a good chance at all of the schools you mentioned - Stanford is still a reach though.</p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>

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<p>stanford is a reach for everyone, all you can do is maximise your chances. would have been nice to see an athletic or musical EC in there somewhere, is the MIT course and edX one by any chance? your high reach schools are just that, everything else is a match. try and up your sat writing if at all possible, that would do you a world of good :slight_smile: </p>

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<p>Don’t commit to Rice.
Looking at your stats, i think you can get into better schools…</p>

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<p>Very impressive stats. Stanford admissions are ridiculous but there is no magical formula, and you have as good a shot as anyone. All the other schools I would say you have a really good chance for.</p>

<p>Chance me back</p>

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<p>You are a match for Rice ED. Ignore those who talk about more prestigious schools if you believe Rice has the best programs for you. Rice also has a terrific pre-med program and is right across from the Texas Medical Center, so there will be plenty of opportunities there for pre-meds.</p>

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<p>Thanks so much muckdogs. I was actually getting a bit panicky thinking that I made a mistake applying ED to Rice but then I remembered all the reasons why I like to so much. With the exception of duke and stanford, it has the best bioengineering program in the country on my list, right in texas medical center, great atmosphere, great campus, and a good value too. The only reason I would think of even backing out would be if I got a better deal at duke or stanford (which is highly unlikely) or if I got into a combined med program (highly unlikely as well). Especially for premed, I know too much emphasis is not placed on what your undergrad school is and it is even less it they are both top tier schools (like Rice vs Duke).</p>

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<p>So I got rejected (not even deferred) from Rice. How the **** did that happen?</p>

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<p>There is no hope for anyone then :(</p>

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<p>Obviously upper Ivies are tougher. Still, you seem like an extremely well-qualified candidate - especially your out-of-school ECs are impressive.</p>

<p>I’m sorry you got rejected from Rice :frowning: That sucks, man. Sadly, being well-qualified often isn’t enough. Luck plays such a heavy role. But you’ll find somewhere where you’ll be happy :)</p>

<p>Chance me back? :slight_smile: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1430767-i-swore-i-wouldnt-give-ask-chances-but-here-i-am-pton-rice-emory.html#post15191854[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1430767-i-swore-i-wouldnt-give-ask-chances-but-here-i-am-pton-rice-emory.html#post15191854&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>I got rejected from Northwestern, dont worry. chance me?</p>