GPA: 3.6 UW 4,1 UW
Class Rank: Top 10%
SAT: 2270
APs: 4 in Biology, 4 in Chemistry, 5 in History, 4 in English, currently taking Gov, Lit, Enviro, Calc BC
SAT IIs: History: 770, Chemistry: 690.
ECs:
Vice President (of the Executive Board), was Secretary my Junior year.
Treasurer of the Spanish Honors Society Junior year
Parliamentarian of the National Honor Society
Treasurer of the Debate Club
Mock Trial (Lawyer this year)
Swim Team all 4 years will most likely be Captain
Track Team first two years
Lifeguard for over 600 hours
Worked my Sophmore and Junior, until this past September at a local deli
Shadowed a doctor for 20 hours
I was also in the National Latin Honor Society my Sophmore year
Recs: The recomendations I have are really good. Should I ask my boss to write one as well?
Essay: My essay and supplements I think are pretty good, especially my common app essay.
Colleges:
Boston University
New York University
Rutgers- New Brunswick
Temple University
Fordham
Stevens
Northeastern
Boston College
RPI
The College of New Jersey
Tufts
Cornell
I want to study either Bio-medical Engineering or Molecular/Biochemistry
Looks like you will get in many if not all. Why are you applying to Temple and Montclair? I would take off RPI and replace it with University of Rochester.
Boston University Accept
New York University Accept
Rutgers- New Brunswick Accept
Temple University Accept
Fordham Accept
Stevens Accept
Northeastern Accept
Boston College Accept
RPI Accept
The College of New Jersey Accept
Tufts Reject (unless ED, “Tufts Syndrome”)
Cornell Waitlist
Need more reaches. You’re top 10% with a very high SAT. Don’t sell yourself short.
Add:
Brandeis
WUSTL
Rochester
Chicago
CWRU
@AStern@soze thank you so much for you repliess! You guys are making me reconsider my options and to apply to more schools. Any other schools you would suggest for Biochemistry? Once again, thank you.
Chicago, like UChicago, 4th ranked university last year? That is too much of a reach. But I agree, you have a great set of mostly matches identified (refreshing to see on the Chances forum). Have you run the net price calculator on each school’s website yet? That is an important step to do before going much further.
If you’re interested in life sciences you should be really looking very closely at Brandeis, Rochester, WUSTL and CWRU among all the schools mentioned.
soze provide extremly poor advice- The college of New jersey is the #1 ranked public college in the north as ranked by
the very well followed USNWR. The also have a tremendous bio-med and chem program as well as the top business program in new jersey. Stevens is at least double if not more and is better known for engineering alone. Seaton Hall–
123, Rutgers honors program is also good but TCNJ is a smaller more personal school and has a higher quality student body. Most refer to TCNJ as a public IVY . Soze--is at best misleading , possible ill informed
To compare TCNJ to NYU, Brandeis, Rochester, let alone WUSTL and CWRU is ridiculous. Let alone comparing it to Tufts and Cornell!
I am not saying that TCNJ is not the right fit for many, or doesn’t give an adequate education, but please understand what these USWNR rankings are. They have tiers, and TCNJ is NOT in a national university tier, so their “USNWR ranking of #1” is only as valuable as who is #2 on that same list, etc.
Just to give another analogy, Stony Brook is #89 on the National University list. #1 on that list is Princeton. #2 on that list is Harvard. Penn State is #47 on that list - does that mean it is worse than TCNJ by far??!!??!
hey rhandco, if you could read the current listing you would know that Villanova is ranked #1 and providence followed at #2 and Tcnj #3 overall!(tied with both Bently and Loyala-each cost double tcnj) Youre misleading again. Also TCNJ is the only public to make the top 10 . Your #2 is in fact #14 overall, hahaha.
here’s more facts–TCNJ is ranked as a regional university because its focus is on undergraduate and gives more than 50% of degrees outside liberal arts. Thats’ it. Thats all there is too it. Since we are adivising undergraduate candidates its wholly inappropriate to dismiss a school that absolutely and by every measure excels at it! More facts- Barrons (you’ve heard of them?) Rans TCNJ as one of the 75 MOST competitve schools in the country. By money mag- a top 73 value in the entire country, #6 in graduate within 4 years in the country, One of the highest freshman retension rates
97% in the entire country and a 88% graduation rate put in the highest 10% in the entire country. As for the business program its ranked #63 in the entire country (rutgers is #123 and seton hall well below that) as per bloomberg rankings.
Also was just ranked as 20th accounting program in the entire country! \
Facts are if the schools were all ranked on basis of undergraduate programs alone and not graduate and phd work and research, TCNJ is a true standout and a fantastic value for anyone who can get in and wants a smaller NESCAC like
personal school.\
Oh and i forgot its the top 1-2 in teaching degrees program in the entire country as well as a top nursing program in the entire country. But you go ahead and keep knocking it…hahaha
@soze@rhandco This year the middle 50% for TCNJ in the ACT was higher than every school in NJ except Princeton. The average ACT was a 28 for the Class of 2019.
Seton Hall was a 25 average going as low as 22 in the middle 50%. TCNJ was a 27 at the bottom of the middle 50%.
Boston University-Admit
New York University-Admit
Rutgers- New Brunswick-Admit
Temple University-Admit
Fordham-Admit
Stevens-Admit
Northeastern-Admit
Boston College-Waitlist
RPI-Admit
The College of New Jersey-Admit
Tufts-Rejected
Cornell-Rejected
Villanova-Admit (Probably with a boatload of merit money-your stats are really impressive!)
oh and programs like the 7 year premed are wildly acclaimed and very difficult admissions just like that of Cornell or Tufts , maybe even tougher standards.