What are my chances of getting into Johns Hopkins RD?

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<p>these are my statistics:</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Sitting 1: CR=690, M=780, W=780 (E=10)
Sitting 2: CR=750, M=740, W=670 (E=11)
Superscore: CR=750, M=780, W=780 (2320)
ACT: none
SAT II:
Freshman yr: 690 Bio M
Soph yr: 740 chem, 740 world history
Junior yr: 800 Math II, 800 USH, 780 Bio M
Unweighted GPA: 95.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 3%; I go to a very competitive specialized high school in NY (bronx science)
AP (place score in parenthesis): world history (5)
also took English Composition, Biology, and US History this year
IB (place score in parenthesis): none
Senior Year Course Load: AP spanish, AP Comparative Government, AP Chem, AP Calculus AB, AP Lit, Post-AP Biology, Math and Bio Research
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Gold Medal at a Math fair, possible Intel semi-finalist</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Bio Journal (Editor), Lector and Alter Server at local church, Volunteer at Learn to Swim Program the last 6 years, Debate Team (1 yr)
Job/Work Experience: Intern at Memorial Sloan-Kettering the last 2 years.
Summer Activities: Internship, researching for intel project
Essays: working with a professional
Teacher Recommendation: English--should be very good
Bio Research--also has potential
Counselor Rec: I think it will be good.
Additional Rec: Probably from my Msgr in the church or my Intel Mentor</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Large Public ~5800 students
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 100-120k+, no FA is all i know really
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation college (none of my parents went to school, they are immigrants to this country)</p>

<p>Please help me with
Reflection
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
Possible Schools I may get into and why:
Schools I should look into:</p>

<p>I am currently a junior who will likely choose a science (biology) major.</p>

<p>THANK YOU!!</p>

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<p>Good, but very light on the leadership roles. Volunteer Service and Leadership are two separate categories. In your senior year there will be few openings in significant leadership roles in NHS and Key club if you have not been participating with those peer groups since you were a freshman. </p>

<p>Let every teacher and counselor know you are looking for any vacancies Secretary to President. Strongly consider leaving a legacy by founding a club as a Charter Member and President. You will need to 3 or four officers each year, President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer (think grants). That should at least assure 4 members from each cohort Senior, Junior, Sophomore, and Freshman a total of 16. It will create leadership slots for each successive class. If you think about it how many clubs have much more than 16 active participants. You get the credit for founding the club, leading the club, and creating a legacy. Do you have a Model UN Club, a Spanish Honor Society, or even be creative like the NYC Culture Club or Nutrition Club. The key is to secure information about and existing national club not at your school and secure a sponsor (Teacher or Director). The model UN club would find the interest of geography, govt, or history teacher. As you may be aware many of these teachers are already committed to an existing club, but I’ll bet the Director of the cafeteria is available. Act fast because it is a hot topic in NYC at the moment, just look what Mayor Bloomberg has championed, or even Michelle Obama. The hook is to get 4 members from each class. Write a 5 page proposal that outlines the focus, the benefit to each member, and the benefit is a legacy of leadership slots to be filled by successive class leaders. I like the nutrition idea because it contributes a solution, likely sponsor readily available, ready pool of members, and potential for grants. Call your school now, don’t wait till summer Is over, and get the cell phone number of the director of the cafeteria - recruit him.</p>

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<p>Dude your stats are great really impressive. Your pretty much a shoe in to any school you apply to. Just make sure your college essays are strong, and show your strong character qualities, and your passion for what you want to study. I got into JHU, and Cornell with a full ride scholarship along with an extra $2,000 dollars :), just letting you know so what i say has some credence. Great job, and when your done with your essays if you want i’d be happy to help you out and give you some advice.</p>

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<p>lol i hope so. but my extra curriculars seem to be lacking. how much will that take away from my application in general?</p>

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<p>Im sure you can join like the National Honors Society, National English Honors Society, National Science Honors Society, that would help, and if your school doesnt have one of these you can start the chapter at your school and automatically be president. At my school some friends and I started a premedical honors society.</p>

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<p>Superman, how did you manage to start a premedical honors society? How many members does it have? What do y’all do?</p>

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<p>All you gotta do is get a teacher to sponsor the club. My school has a really small number of seniors around 93 and more than half were in the club. We set up the requirements that you have to have a “science GPA” which we calculated using their records, of a 3.5 or higher. And we volunteered at local clinics after school sometimes and maybe one Saturday a month, for meeting we talked about some of the newest medical advances, read some scientific journals. We offered tutoring for any science course. We brought in some guest speakers we had a medical admissions director from one of the local University’s medical school, he talked to us about how to be competitive candidates. Their are plenty of things you can do. We were going do a state or national competition on Anatomy and Physiology but sadly we did not get to.</p>