Pls chance me for Stanford, Ivys, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Thank you so much for your time! If you have good ideas of good reach and match schools for me, please let me know also

ACT: 34 (34M, 35R, 34E, 34S)
SAT II: 740 in Biology and 800 in Math 2
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.86 UW 4.26 W
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 20/487
IB (place score in parenthesis): IB Biology (6), IB Psych (5), IB History HL, IB Math HL, IB English HL, IB Spanish SL
Senior Year Course Load: IB History HL, IB Math HL, IB English HL, IB Spanish SL, IB Chemistry I HL, Physics D

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
HOSA (president and founder)
Cheerleading (Varsity for 3 years, freshmen for 1 year; runs social media for all 3 teams)
Math Team (4 years; won some competitions; director of the officer team)
FBLA (2 years; reporter)
Student Council (2 years; planned several events)
Cross-country (4 years JV; team leader for 2 years)
Tennis (2 years)
Science Olympiad (2 years)
Leflers Honors Cadre Mentorship (mentored a 6th grade for a year)
Girl Up Elementary School Leader (ran girl empowerment club for elementary schoolers)

Summer Activities:
NCMN STEM Summer High School Intern- Spent summer after my junior year at a paid internship at my local university studying mechanical and material engineering. Presented research at the Nebraska Summer Research Symposium and Undergraduate Women in Physical Sciences Conference.

State (if domestic applicant): Nebraska
Intended major(s): Biology
School Type: public school
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: >100,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM

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This is awesome. I hate to sound like 8034% of the other people on this forum in saying this, but a fabulous personal essay could potentially seal the deal at some of the schools you are thinking of (assuming good teacher recommendations as well). Good luck!

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Stats: Great, except that UW GPA may be a little low
ECs: average, you have a lot of cool clubs and organizations but no awards
Summer stuff: sounds like you were productive
Special stuff (hooks, state, etc.): URM, Nebraska is fairly underrepresented in terms of applicants (makes you even stronger)

Stanford: reach, lowish chance (this can always be based on luck though)
Duke: reach
JHU: low reach (i think you can get in)
Northwestern: reach

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I’m a current Stanford student and I think you have a great shot at all of those schools-- woman+URM+STEM= tons of acceptances as far as I can tell! Good luck!

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Although all are highly competitive schools for admission, I think that you have an above average chance at all of them.

Your intended major is biology, but your chances would increase if applying as an engineering major.

It would be interesting to see your list of schools in order of preference.

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Are you applying REA or RD to any schools?

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I applied REA to Stanford and am going to apply RD everywhere else