2014: Columbia/Stanford and others

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Indian male looking to major in Chem/biochem etc.</p>

<p>ACT: 33 Superscores: English-35/Math-34/Reading-34/Science-34/Writing-8</p>

<p>SATII: Chemistry-760; Math 2-750
(I am retaking all of the tests listed above–90% sure scores will improve)</p>

<p>cont’d…
SATII: BioM-750; USH-700; WorldH-670
GPA: 4.0 unweighted
RANK: 1 of about 160</p>

<p>COURSEWORK: I took the toughest courses at my small-town high school; however, this only consists of 3 AP classes (Eng. Lang., Lit., and Calculus)</p>

<p>Extra-curriculars:
-Tennis
-treasurer of our NHS chapter
-Captain of quiz bowl team
-Junior Engineering and Technical Society
-Student council member
-Student council president
-Student Anti-tobacco mentoring program
-Mentoring young kids
-Shadowing doctor
-Commended National Merit scholar (probably)
-U-Cincy Summer Honors Institute in Medicine</p>

<p>I’m thinking about the following schools:</p>

<p>-Columbia
-Stanford
-Harvard (just to see)
-Northwestern
-Michigan (I live 15 minutes from the MI border; does this mean anything? I have heard sometimes in other schools if you are in a bordering county you have a lower OOS fee.)
-Ohio State (in-state)</p>

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<p>Eh. Not bad, but not outstanding for these schools. Push the small town thing and you might hit some niche appeal. Raise your test scores if you can.</p>

<p>Your ECs lack focus. Sure, you’re smart; plenty of kids are. But you need to “brand” yourself and show that you know what you’re doing in a particular field, not just spreading yourself so thin over multiple arenas.</p>

<p>Thoughts:
-Columbia - Mid Reach
-Stanford - High Reach
-Harvard - High Reach
-Northwestern - Match
-Michigan - In
-Ohio State - In</p>

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<p>I know this sounds like a stupid question but…</p>

<p>What do you mean by “push the small town thing”? Should I or should I not draw attention to it?</p>

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<p>you’re a low reach to match for all</p>

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<p>Well, how small is small?</p>

<p>If it’s 8,000 or less, (preferably rural), I mean that you should play up the fact that you’re from a small town, either in your application/essay or in interviews. Colleges will eat it up, as it further diversifies you, and distinguishes you from the herd, so to speak.</p>

<p>Small towns - rural ones specifically - seem to rarely send students to Ivies and the like, so this would make you unique in the application process</p>

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<p>I will do that pewpewpew</p>

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<p>wow 15 mins from MI border?
me too I live in Toledo</p>

<p>OSU yeah ur definitely in…
Michigan I’m sure ur in too
Northwestern…definitely
Im totally agreeing with pewpewpew
but the ivy league and stanford?
u never know
from what I’ve seen, all ur ECs and academics look like a regular Ivy applicant
but amazing essays really do the trick</p>

<p>Chance you!!
and very very very sincerely, Good Luck!!!</p>