<p>@daem0n I’m fairly new to College Confidential so what does URM mean @trips22 that video was amazing thanks for showing it to me, and I am definitely going to use/integrate that idea into my college essays. Also I am going to do an arts supplement along with my apps so would I send in videos of our the orchestra tour along with my own solo videos? If you don’t know this it’s fine.</p>
<p>Some other things I forgot to mention:
-Have volunteered over 100 Hours at YMCA and received the Community Service Award which was given to three people in my grade
-participated in the Chemistry Olympiad but have yet to find out whether or not I have been admitted into the next round
-Delians/National Honors Society for all three years of High School and next year
-In my school the students are divided up into 5 “houses” and I am an official in the S-House Leadership Advisory, I have helped put together several events which brought many students together, and I also helped/led with the painting of a mural at the school-this brought many students together to kind of unify the school
-For the Essay Portion on the SAT I got a 10</p>
<p>I was also wondering if this was a good schedule for my senior year for the schools I want to go to:
-Orchestra
-Track
-AP Gov
-AP Bio
-AP Calc BC
-(if my school allows me) AP Physics and if not AP Psych</p>
<p>Lastly, besides the schools that I wrote down do any of you guys know what other schools have good pre-med/neuroscience programs?
Thanks!</p>
<p>A URM is an under represented minority, for example African-American. Being East Asian would make you a ORM, or over represented minority. Colleges want diversity, so it’s generally easier for an African-American female to get into Stanford than for an Asian-American male.</p>
<p>Your schedule looks fine. JHU and Brown (PLME) have THE best premed programs.</p>
<p>JHU is down for legacy. Their program is still very cutthroat, being (in my opinion at least) the best premed school.
As for you being Persian, that’s a bit iffy. Officially, Persian is Caucasian (for the government at least), so that may or may not make you an URM.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m 15 years old and am currently a junior. I have a 3.5 gpa and took the ACT for practice/just to see how it’d go with no prep in December and got a 25 (( I am retaking it again and hope to get a 28-30 hopefully! I am Junior Class President, heavily involved in Student Council, Part of NHS-going to be an officer next year, actively involved in Key Club and voleenteer countless hours. I am also an active voleenteer in my church. I was selected for leadership in my states’s conference. I have taken challenging classes my whole high school career and took 2 AP Classes this year and am taken 4 next year. I also job shadow my dentist. I want to be a dentist or an oral surgeon and am applying for UIC this June early admission. Do you think I can get in with my current stats? I am praying so because it is the only school that tuition is reasonable and yet offers a strong medical field. I have also been on varsity tennis for 3 years and varsity track for 3 years. I hope to appear well rounded. Thank you for reading this and taking the time to answer, I appreciate it very much as I come from a middle-class family and do not have many options for college due to my low gpa and only a couple schools offer pre-dental in Illinois and their tuition is well out of my range. Thanks once again!</p>
<p>Generally, your application will be good. However, I think you need to add a bit more “umph” to your stats/EC’s. Your stats are good enough for schools like NYU, Northwestern, maybe U of Chicago, but your SAT is a little bit low for the Ivies (especially after this year! oy!). Your EC’s are cool, but definitely show your passion for music, and that will make the difference for you. Definitely pursue music in college, regardless of whether or not you want it to be your career. This way, you could be recruited.
All in all, I think that your stats are nice, add a bit more, but don’t be too hard on yourself because Ivies are always a crap-shoot :]</p>
<p>I agree with my posters before me. Your GPA is good and your EC’s are good but your SAT and no-hook status seems to be a problem. Honestly I think that NYU, Northwestern, and UChicago seem to be the most realistic schools.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m 15 years old and am currently a junior. I have a 3.5 gpa and took the ACT for practice/just to see how it’d go with no prep in December and got a 25 (( I am retaking it again and hope to get a 28-30 hopefully! I am Junior Class President, heavily involved in Student Council, Part of NHS-going to be an officer next year, actively involved in Key Club and voleenteer countless hours. I am also an active voleenteer in my church. I was selected for leadership in my states’s conference. I have taken challenging classes my whole high school career and took 2 AP Classes this year and am taken 4 next year. I also job shadow my dentist. I want to be a dentist or an oral surgeon and am applying for UIC this June early admission. Do you think I can get in with my current stats? I am praying so because it is the only school that tuition is reasonable and yet offers a strong medical field. I have also been on varsity tennis for 3 years and varsity track for 3 years. I hope to appear well rounded. Thank you for reading this and taking the time to answer, I appreciate it very much as I come from a middle-class family and do not have many options for college due to my low gpa and only a couple schools offer pre-dental in Illinois and their tuition is well out of my range. Thanks once again!</p>
<p>Click on the link I posted, then look right above the posts to the left. There’s a button that says “new thread”. Hit that, and you’ll have your own thread.</p>
<p>Hi, I’m 15 years old and am currently a junior. I have a 3.5 gpa and took the ACT for practice/just to see how it’d go with no prep in December and got a 25 (( I am retaking it again and hope to get a 28-30 hopefully! I am Junior Class President, heavily involved in Student Council, Part of NHS-going to be an officer next year, actively involved in Key Club and voleenteer countless hours. I am also an active voleenteer in my church. I was selected for leadership in my states’s conference. I have taken challenging classes my whole high school career and took 2 AP Classes this year and am taken 4 next year. I also job shadow my dentist. I want to be a dentist or an oral surgeon and am applying for UIC this June early admission. Do you think I can get in with my current stats? I am praying so because it is the only school that tuition is reasonable and yet offers a strong medical field. I have also been on varsity tennis for 3 years and varsity track for 3 years. I hope to appear well rounded. Thank you for reading this and taking the time to answer, I appreciate it very much as I come from a middle-class family and do not have many options for college due to my low gpa and only a couple schools offer pre-dental in Illinois and their tuition is well out of my range. Thanks once again!</p>
<p>@roxi0428
-click on Discussion Home which is beneath Discussion Home at the top left corner
-scroll down to “What are my Chances?” and click
-near the middle of the lower middle of the page it gives you the thing with all the threads/page numbers you can go to if you look directly to the left of that, there is a button that says: “CC New Thread” CLICK IT!</p>
<p>You’re welcome!</p>
<p>Back to me…does anyone else know of good premed programs and also others EC’s I can take up that look good for college?</p>
<p>My mom is a Neurologist. She went to a 6 year Med-program at Union College and Albany Medical School, and because it wasn’t an Ivy filled with super competitive geniuses (not that there is anything wrong with that), she did really well (was actually valedictorian) and was able to take her pick of any residency after that. She did her residency at Johns Hopkins.</p>
<p>You might want to see if they still have that program, because it may be a good choice for you. Apparently some of my mother’s other classmates got really amazing residencies, as well, and are now all super successful.</p>
<p>If you are interested, maybe I could ask her for some suggestions of other similar programs.</p>
<p>She actually was able to get me an amazing neuroscience internship this Summer in a lab with a legit certified genius researcher. I don’t even plan to go into neurology (or medicine for that matter; I prefer business), but I am so frickin’ excited for the summer! It’s gonna be a great opportunity to learn so much!</p>
<p>I recommend you do something similar to show interest in medicine, particularly in your field. My mother also serves on the Admissions Board at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and always tells me that that is KEY for someone looking to go into medicine: clear demonstrated interest!</p>
<p>I am definitely interested in other programs, please ask her! Ask her if there are any other programs like the one you are doing because I would really really really want to do that.</p>
<p>there are a number of prior threads about arts supplements, including over at the sub-forum, for Music Major.</p>
<p>Generally, unless you are a playing level where you could be majoring in music, or attending a music conservatory, it is not helpful or a ‘hook’</p>
<p>I would not recommend including a video of the orchestra at all.</p>
<p>If your individual playing is at a high level, then it can be included.</p>
<p>often the college websites specifically answer this question about arts supplements, and give guidelines about sending anything, what to send, format to send it in, length, etc.</p>
<p>@Platypus26 I’ll ask her tonight. As for the programs, you can find them at almost any local college/university/hospital/research facility. Some places have actual programs, but those can cost up to $6000, not including airfare & costs of living for the summer.</p>
<p>Instead, try to find a mentor (like I did. My mom also found mentors for 3 other kids in my Science Research class). Look around for contact information on websites of anyone working at any of the places I mentioned earlier. If their work seems interesting to you, shoot them an email explaining your interest and asking if they have any room for a high school intern this summer. It may be a bit difficult at this time of the year, as some people fill up as early as December or January, but if you keep trying, you’ll definitely find a mentor within a few weeks! Actually, you don’t even have to try locally if you pay for airfare/living arrangements (in rare occurrences, the institution they work at might even offer pay for these). But without the cost of an actual program, the airfare/living costs probably won’t be all too high.</p>