<p>Please rate each college (Only ones that you have researched or know sufficient information about) using the following categories. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.</p>
<p>1-Weeding (1 relaxed - 10 cutthroat and serious weeding of pre-meds)
2-Biology Department (1 worst - 10 best)
3-Research opportunities (1 no opportunities - 10 many opportunities)
4-Pre-med advisory services (1 not helpful at all - 10 very useful and helpful)
5-Breadth of Biology major courses (1 little depth and detail - 10 great amount of detail and breadth)
6-Environment and other students (1 cutthroat competition - 10 relaxes and friendly. I personally like a balance of both)
7-Financial Aid for sub-$25,000 income OOS applicant (1 horrible or no financial aid - 10 100% financial aid guarantee and no loans for very low income students)</p>
<p>University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Emory University
SUNY - Stony Brook
University of Maryland - College Park
Tufts University
University of Massachusetts -Amherst
Johns Hopkins University
University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
University of Michigan
Cornell University
Duke University
University of Southern California
University of Washington - Seattle</p>
<p>My basic stats:
-GPA
---Unweighted: I calculate it to be 3.8 with no weight given to APs and honors. Official GPA to be announced in coming weeks.
-Ranking
---Ranking will be announced in coming weeks. I expect at least the top 15% with a pessimistic estimate and top 10% with a more optimistic estimate.
-SAT: 2180. Will retake.
---700 Reading
---710 Math
---770 Writing
-Classes:
---8/9 Total APs classes.<br>
---Senior Year: AP Physics, AP BC Calculus, AP US Gov, AP Eng Literature. This is as much APs allowed due to a new limit on the total amount of periods of classes I can have. The four aforementioned AP courses and a single period Gym class add up to 7 periods per day which is a limit for seniors (I'm not sure if the limit also applies to lower grades)
-Extracurriculars:
---Piano (10-12)
---Mountain Biking (9-12)
---Teacher Assistant at my church on Sundays (11-12)
---Key Club (10-12)
---FBLA (10-early 11) I left after deciding business was not for me.
---Health Occupation Students of America (12) I joined after I finally decided my future goals will be in pre-medical then medicine not because I wanted to pack my application.
---Tutor students in school and online (11-12)
LOR:
---Great letters of recommendation from teachers.
---Autodidact in the Asian languages of Japanese and Chinese(11-12). Each day, I learn more words and grammar rules. With Mandarin Chinese, my theoretical grammar is intermediate leveled based on my Cantonese abilities.
---Constant reader of political, medical, and technological news? It's more of a hobby to be honest.</p>