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<p>Hi, I previously posted these stats, but my senior year grades were higher 4.2 W and 3.6 UW.</p>

<p>Are my stats high enough to get into college of engineering, majoring in biomedical engineering? If I’m not admitted, is there any other options available?</p>

<p>Bay Area, California
Female
Dual citizenship US and UK, but born in US (don’t know if that matters)</p>

<p>SATs: 1920 M: 640 V: 600 W: 680
SAT IIs: US: 630 Bio M: 600 French w/ Listening: 570 Math II: 600
ACTs: Not taken
Took AP US History (didn’t take test though); currently taking AP French
Rank: Unavailable
GPA: W: 3.95 UW: 3.42 (w/o freshman year)</p>

<p>Activities:
Water polo: 9,10,11,12 (JV: 9-10; Varsity: 11-12) awards: Most Improved (12th) Played club during summer
Swimming: 9,10,11,12 (JV: 9-11; Varsity: 12) awards: Coaches Award (9th) Swam with club winter through summer (basically when I wasn’t playing water polo)
Community service: about 22 hours Junior year at old middle school; school clubs: Mu Alpha Theta, CSF, CI
Attended leadership conference Freshman year
Work fours hours a week at swim and racquet club year round; also lifeguard at club during summer
Traveling: mother was born in England, make lots of trips back there to visit family; also visited France, Spain, Wales, Ireland</p>

<p>I’m hoping to study biomedical engineering ; will being a women help me at all?</p>

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<p>My high school GPA is basically identical to yours (around 3.4 over all and 3.6 senior year), and your extracurriculars are much stronger than mine (I did 4 seasons worth of varsity sailing over 3 years) and I basically didn't do any clubs, our community service hours are pretty much the same, and so are our work and summer activites (I worked at a summer camp). I have only taken 1 AP (Comp Sci). My SATs were 2010 total, 680 math, 700 verbal, 630 writting. My SATs were 690 bio and 610 math I. Finally, I live about an hour out side of Boston and I'm a male.</p>

<p>All that said, I got in early decision to Bio Med Eng. The engineering school has the lowest female to male ratio, but of the available programs, BME has the highest so I'm not sure being female will help you a ton. What I think will help you more is that you're from California and travel a lot. In my opinion, I would be suprised if you didn't get in, especially with your very strong set of extra curriculars. The only pitfalls I see is the fact that your course choices and SAT scores seem to suggest that you're stronger in writting, history, and languages than you are in math and science.</p>

<p>I wish you the best of luck, and hope to see you next year!</p>