<p>Hi, I'm an Asian American rising junior at an extremely competitive public high school in NYC. Although I'm not completely certain, I think that i want to go premed for college. However, my school is very much humanities-centric, and my ECs are debate, key club, editor of a creative writing magazine, and Model UN. I am fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese. I am conversational in Korean and Spanish. My grades are not exceptional, I have a 3.7 GPA because I got a C in Phys. Ed. and B plus in Chemistry. All of my other classes are A minus or above. I am part of my school choir and my neighborhood choir, and I have played piano for 11 years(passed grade 8 ABRSM) and violin for 3. My sister went to an Ivy League school, so my family here and in Asia seem to think that it is not as hard as it actually is to get into the Ivies. I don't know anything about the college application process, but can any of you guys tell me what I need to do to improve in junior year and also what prospective colleges I should be looking into? Do I still have a chance Cornell or Brown(my dream schools), and what non-Ivies have good premed programs that i could get into? Money is not an issue that should be considered. I only recently considered becoming a doctor which is why my stuff is very humanities centric and I am a history buff, but I really want to know how someone like me can go premed with my ECs and grades, and whats schools I should be looking at. Oh, I forgot to mention that my SAT practice scores(from tests in the Blue Book) are around 2200 right now. Thank you guys so very much!</p>
<p>i think that you have a pretty good chance of getting into an ivy league college…cornell is the easiest i think… grades are only a part of the picture also… you need to have serious extracurriculars are excel at something outside of school (preferrably something unique)</p>
<p>Start shadowing doctors now. Go to the library and read Michelle Hernandez’s A is for Admission. Plug your GPA, SATs, class rank based on school size and see your chances of ivy admission. Since there are 5 times as many Val’s and Sals as ivy spots, they are asking science majors to also have real research or be a Siemens science finalist.</p>
<p>Go to Cornell summer school this summer to take bio college courses for HS Juniors and Seniors. You must apply Jan or Feb since those classes fill up fast. They take a small percent (perhaps around ten percent ?) who get A’s in the summer and are in the top ten percent of their graduating high school class.</p>