POSSIBLE chance..Please help meeee..REALLY want to go here

Colleges & Universities A-Z Johns Hopkins University
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<p>As of now, I know that theres no way I can get in here. But I am doing 2 rigorous SAT courses and am also cracking down by myself. But here are my CURRENT Stats:</p>

<p>1st gen to go to college</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA - 3.0 (yea i know)</p>

<p>SAT - 2130/2400
Math - 750
Reading - 690
Writing - 690</p>

<p>AP Psychology
AP Enviromental Science
AP US History
AP Economics
AP Political Systems</p>

<p>Rest are honors/gifted</p>

<p>ESSAY - I plan on writing about my GPA reasoning and motivation for college:</p>

<p>I wont go into extreme detail but I had a kidney removed at birth and a couple of years ago I found out that my other kidney was starting to fail as well. Due to my rare blood type and the unique situation of my kidney, I was at a low chance of finding a kidney donation in time. I had to drink a lot of water to keep it hydrated, but the more fluid I drank the more it burnt my urinary tract, so I was quickly running out of time. My doctor said the chances were low and that if we didn't find a donor, I would have about 4 years or 5 at best. I was a child and lost all motivation to try but my mom didn't know about the situation so she kept pushing me to take harder classes. AP classes + no motivation + pressure from mom = DEPRESSION. I spent 9th, 10th, and most of 11th in depression. This February however, we found a donor and the transplant was extremely successful. I decided I wanted to become a doctor to help people like I was helped and became extremely motivated.</p>

<p>EC's
- Debate Club President
- Debate Team Captain
- Philosophy Club Vice President
- DECA, BETA, FBLA, Interact, and International Club member.
- Mock Trial participant.</p>

<p>Laws of Life Essay Contest winner
Extemporaneous Speaking Contest 2nd Place winner
Literary Meet 2nd Place winner
Intern at hospital
Medical Conference (attending this summer)
250 hours of community service hours (medicine related)</p>

<p>OKAY so like I said, I know theres no way I can get in at the time. But I really want to go here. If I do really well my senior year (GPA) and get a 2300+ on the SAT, what do you think are my chances?</p>

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<p>I’d say your story is interesting enough that it could maybe compensate for where you lack elsewhere, and your ECs are pretty good. However, one might wonder: how did your mother not know about your situation? And how were you able to gain such prominent positions in ECs but unable to keep your GPA up?</p>

<p>1st gen. helps also.
Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks for replying.
I explain my mother situation in my essay, she has hypertension (high blood pressure) and is emotionally unstable. My father and I weren’t going to tell unless extremely necessary. And she knew about the kidney problem, just not the lack of time I had, so she continued to pressure me academically.</p>

<p>The ECs (which I also talk about)…were all revolving around interest which didn’t require any motivation. The reason I didn’t try academically was because I thought the chances of me living to go to college was unlikely and didn’t see a point. My ECs however was not intended to impress a college , but because I love writing/debating/philosophy. </p>

<p>Thanks again.</p>