<p>Asian Female
Virginia
GPA: 4.3ish -4.4ish W, 3.8-3.9 UW (depends on how I do this year)
SAT: 1420/2170 (retake will probably be higher)
5 APs Soph & Junior years, 5 APs Senior.
SATIIs: Projected 700-800 range.
Rank: 5%</p>
<p>EC's:
Violin - 7 years.
Ecology Club - 2 years. Will probably be president next year.
Envirothon Team - 2 years.
Creative Writing Club - 2 years.
Summer volunteer work - 100 hrs. (will do more)
Possible summer job.
Comic artist for newspaper - not in journalism; on own time.
Designed graphics for school webpage.</p>
<p>Awards - junk, mostly. A few arts and stuff, strangely.</p>
<p>Rec's are likely to be fair to good, essays likely to be good.</p>
<p>Really wanting to attend...</p>
<p>BTW, would like you to tell me if I've got a reasonable (non-delusional, as suze put it) list - I have them in order of preference.</p>
<p>1) JHU (ED) - reach.
2) UChicago (EA) - reach.
3) UVa (EA) - high match/slight reach.
4) UPenn - reach.
5) Duke - reach.
6) Carnegie Mellon - high match/slight reach.
7) UMD:CP - match.
8) William and Mary - low match/safety.
9) VTech - safety.
10) JMU - safety.</p>
<p>JHU ED - Match
Chicago EA - Match
UVA EA - Safety (In-State)
U Penn - Reasonable Chance
Duke - Reasonable Chance
Carnegie Mellon - Match
UMD - Safety
William & Mary - Safe Match
V Tech & JMU - Safety</p>
<p>You really have a low opinion of yourself...especially since JHU accepts over 50% ED and Chicago accepts 40% EA...</p>
<p>ED and EA for jhu and chicago and also cornell are extremely easy...also northwestern lol =D
edit: this is if you are not applying to bme
edit: however, your ec does seem a bit weak. I know jhu weighs ecs heavily...
edit: in terms of grades, you are exactly at the median of accepted students for jhu but i don;t know about your ec though gl! =D
edit: tip...jhu seems to go easier on people who have already done research in hs =D gl!</p>
<p>Not applying BME. No way.</p>
<p>As for EC's, I don't know what to do. I'll be volunteering with either the rescue squad or the local clinic soon, but aside from that, what can I do?</p>
<p>Research? How do I go about getting experience in research? Am I supposed to just waltz up a professor at JMU/EMU and ask, "Oh, hey, I'm a high school student, can I do research here?" What does that even entail?</p>
<p>JHU ED 45%</p>
<p>You should be fine, though I'm not sure if you can apply both EA and ED at the same time.</p>
<p>by the way, what's your major?</p>
<p>nu is 44% and i think both cornell and chic are really near those numbers also...yea...ed/ea for those schools seem to be extremely easy to get in
edit: and yes she can apply ed/ea at the same time, as long as it is not scea</p>
<p>darkhope, I like your nickname for University of Chicago: "Chic":) No offence, it's excellent school.</p>
<p>Chic is hardly an offense... But if Chicago is "chic", I'm definitely not the type they're looking for! :p</p>
<p>Looking to major in biophysics, though with leanings to the premed track. May minor in psychology. Heck, if things go a certain way, may major in psychology.</p>
<p>BTW, the 45% is my chances, right? Better than I thought! :D</p>
<p>45% is for ed applicants this year; last year the rd admit rate was 27%</p>
<p>I think you hav a really good chance unless:</p>
<p>1) JHU suddenly has a sudden increase in applicants...and they do like every 2~3 years for some reason...</p>
<p>2) There are many Female Asians from Virginia that have the same Ec's as you. JHU places a lot more weight on EC's than other schools. Getting a summer job is a very nice way of spending your summer -- even it means working as a cashier and making minimum wage. </p>
<p>Seriously, I worked for the experience -- and now I actually have respect for those people behind the cash registers. (I'm not kidding you I had to read a 100 page manual on how to work a cash register) You gain a lot of interaction experience -- and perhaps colleges value this. Try to work at a smaller market/pharmacy -- because you get more things to do this way. I would hate to stand in a register all day. FYI, I worked at CVS pharmacy.</p>
<p>Thanks. I'll have to look into that. A pharmacy would be a whole lot better than most of the other suggestions for jobs I've been given.</p>