<p>I'm Bangladeshi.
HPME is the direct medical program at Northwestern.
PLME is the direct medical program at Brown.</p>
<p>4.0
2370 (800CR, 800M, 770W)
800 Chem
800 Math Level 2
790 Bio
1st of about 500
230 PSAT</p>
<p>Sophomore:
AP Chem
AP Euro</p>
<p>Junior:
AP Stats
AP Bio
AP Calc BC
AP Lang
Physics
Weight Training</p>
<p>Senior:
AP Calc BC
AP Psych
AP Physics
AP Lit
AP Gov</p>
<p>EC:</p>
<p>This Summer, I'mdoing medical research at a local university (hope to enter siemens/YES or something with my findings)</p>
<p>Freshman Football
JV Football
Varsity Track and Field
Fall Play Crew</p>
<p>Founding Officer of Math Club (Current President)
Varsity A Quiz Bowl (+Historian) (Our team came in 3rd at States)
French Club (Publicist for 2 years)
National Honor Society
Very Likely President of Science Olympiad, Senior Year</p>
<p>+300 Volunteer Hours (Local Hospital, Red Cross, Paralyzed Veterans, Salvation Army, will do 100 more next year)
Member of City Youth Council (We do things like set up movie marathons to discourage drug use)
Member of Local Youth Health COmmittee (We once set up a health fair for local mobile home kids)</p>
<p>Awards:
National Semifinalist
USA Biology Olympiad Semifinalist
Chemistry Olympiad Participant
Local Youth Assistance Award (2 years in a row, signed by congress members)
Local Optimist Club Awar/Scholarship ($500)</p>
<p>great (P)SAT, great SAT II's, excellent gpa and rank. leadership, lots of volunteer hours, national recognition/awards. i'd say you have an excellent chance. however, HPME and PLME are both very selective. so even though your stats are excellent, you still need amazing rec. and jaw dropping essays to get in. why? because there will be a lot of others applicants with similar stats as you (+ or - some of your awards)</p>
<p>good luck:)</p>
<p>thank you very much for the reply. i'll do my best to write amazing essays and get great recs.</p>
<p>Definitely a good chance, as much as anyone.
But obviously, those programs are very selective so you're not guaranteed, and the rest of your app will need to be good, like you'llsee... said.</p>
<p>if your research works out-instant improvement in your chances. get one of those congressmen to write a rec?</p>
<p>Getting congressmen to write recs is absolutely useless. They obviously want to be re-elected so they'd gladly write your recs. I'm sure admission officers know this. What is this "going to participate in siemens" thing? You haven't won anything yet, so if your research is not very strong, "going to participate" means absolutely nothing. Just fyi, only a summer of research won't get you very far in Siemens.</p>
<p>wow, great rank and scores. Your ECs are good/generic, so it will come down to your rec, essay, and love of med. Good stats will get you consideration though..(I want to go to PLME over HPME)</p>
<p>Arrgrhgr i wish i had gotten some patents or articles published or something.</p>
<p>Yeah, just a heads-up: research takes years to find anything. You're probably not gonna have anything to enter YES or Siemens.</p>
<p>Of course you're going to discover something previously unknown but it is not gonna be submit-worthy. Right now I'm interning at NIH and have found out that a certain mutation (a mutation that we created) of a protein doesn't have a his-tag. Sure it's something new, but it's not worth submitting anywhere.</p>
<p>I too dreamed of curing cancer and all that during the summer. Unless you're lottery-level lucky, you won't find anything useful.</p>
<p>Anyways, I'd be better to post this in the combined medical degree forum since most people here don't know about the level of applicants for HPME and PLME.</p>
<p>I'll probably be applying to both and have some similar stats as you, but yours look much better to be honest except my research continues through my senior year (half-day at school and the rest at NIH).</p>
<p>In case you're wondering what I mean by similar, here are my relative-to-you-mediocre stats:</p>
<p>780 W
770 M
680 CR
(I'll probably retake the SAT to get my CR higher as well as my Math to 800)</p>
<p>800 math II
790 chem
770 bio M (did you take bio E?)</p>
<p>60 hours volunteer at hospital.
President of chemistry club
USABO Semifinalist (see what I mean by similar?)
Won 3rd place at one event in UMD's chemathon competition for Maryland high schools
2nd place at honors physics level in Final Frontiers montgomery county
Tutor at Science NHS</p>
<p>hey, thanks for the input. discouraging, but puts things in perspective. can you tell me more about your research? as in, when you started and when you will finish, etc.</p>
<p>by the way, youre stats are awesome, good luck.</p>
<p>(oh, and I took M, how about you?)</p>
<p>I took M. My research started in the second week of June and will end in May of next year. However, most people who intern at NIH during HS only stay for the summer. I'm staying until May of next year along with 20 or so other HS students (they work in other labs though).</p>
<p>oh, i see. well i have no problem volunteering well into senior year, so i guess i'll be doing the same. how do you feel about your chances at HPME and PLME? i wish info on these programs were more readily available/reliable.</p>
<p>So, any more chancers? Id appreciate it.</p>
<p>wow, whether its good or bad, I saw a lot of myself in you two... </p>
<p>i dreamed of my research going awesome and soon learned how hard it is to get results regardless of how "hard" you work. I have been working in a lab since the summer after sophomore and like you guys said, its cool and I found out new stuff, but it's not great for submitting.</p>
<p>I think I will submit my act (34) since my sat's aren't as good (2220). My rank/gpa isn't as good as you chanceme, but our ECs are similar. Guess it'll come down to the essay!!!</p>
<p>Good lucky..!!</p>
<p>good luck to you both.</p>
<p>I think it helps for PLME to be preppy haha. That seems like the typical brown student with a sweater vest and clean yet messy hair.</p>