Chance a robotics premed girl for Brown ED and other misc schools [3.88uw/4.49w, top 1% of class, 33 ACT]

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Demographics

  • US domestic

  • State/Location of residency: Ohio

  • Type of high school (or current college for transfers):Public non competitive

Intended Major(s): Health and Human Bio for Brown, microbiology/biochem and public health/sociology at all other schools (interested in infectious diseases & biostatistics)

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.88

  • Weighted HS GPA: 4.49

  • Class Rank: 6/330

  • ACT/SAT Scores: 33 ACT (36 E/R, 32S, 29M) my weak point :stuck_out_tongue:

List your HS coursework

(Indicate advanced level, such as AP, IB, AICE, A-level, or college, courses as well as specifics in each subject)

  • English: Honors English 9, Honors English 10, DE comp 1, DE comp 2

  • Math: Honors algebra 1, Honors geometry, honors algebra 2, honors precancerous, ap calc ab

  • Science: honors bio, honors chem, DE chem, honors anatomy+physiology, biotechnology I, DE biotechnology & bioethics, DE lab safety and regulatory compliance DE biotech careers, AP bio, APES, APCSA, DE Public Health

  • History and social studies: world history, US history, DE US government, DE intro to psych, DE intro to sociology, DE environmental ethics, DE lifespan human development, DE personality psychology, DE abnormal psychology

    Language other than English: Spanish I, II, III

  • Visual or performing arts: Drawing & Painting I

  • Other academic courses: DE medical terminology, DE fundamentals of IT, DE fundamentals of web development, financial literacy

Awards:

  • FIRST Tech Challenge Deanā€™s List Finalist (super prestigious individual robotics award)
  • Robotics awards (Inspire Award x3. Think Award @ State x1. 10 awards total. 2x tournament winner)
  • Doxable state environmental awareness competition 6th place (selected from 100 teams)
  • Local VA hackathon winner, designed medical device for mental health patients
  • Collegeboard school recognition award

Extracurriculars

  • Robotics: team lead and former programmer, led documentation, 15k raised for team funding
  • Robotics outreach: 250+ hours of outreach/65+ events. Served as tournament director for tournament hosted. 25K+ people reached in 13 countries/23 states.
  • Hospital internship: shadowed over 20 different professionals and observed procedures while volunteering,
  • Robotics advisory council: promote robotics funding & equity to state officials for all FIRST teams
  • Aforementioned environmental comp: Designed community-wide initiative & donated 250 beeswax wrap kits to foster sustainability. Saved ~62400 Ziplocs from becoming waste!
  • Work: work at target, pretty unremarkable, pick & package 200+ items / day for shipping & pickup
  • Summer shadowing program: shadowed a bunch of medical specialties, became CPR & stop the bleed certified
  • Work 2: barista @ coffee chain, make over 300 drinks a shift
  • Other medical shadowing program at local hospital: shadowed a bunch of specialties
  • Knitting: i knit & crochet on the side and design patterns/taught my friends how to

Essays/LORs/Other
Essays should be pretty good, wrote about robotics outreach in personal statement that I am very proud of & for brown wrote about Plague.inc, going to the library, making tea, and the zombie apocalypse (among other things). LORs should also be strong, especially my counselorā€™s.

Schools

  • Extremely Likely: UCincinnnati (EA), Penn State (EA), Ohio State (EA)

  • Likely: UW madison (EA), University of Rochester (RD)

  • Toss-up: Case Western (EA), Northeastern (EA)

  • Lower Probability: NYU (RD), BU (RD)

  • Low Probability: Brown (ED), Cornell (RD), Emory (RD), Harvard (RD), JHU (RD), Northwestern (RD), Yale (RD)

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First of all, best of luck. How do you chance someone on a 5% school?

Apply and see. But since you want to know- Iā€™d guess no to Brown given the ACT below the 25th percent and no calc BC. Doesnā€™t mean Iā€™m right.

Rochester and UW may be toss ups although Iā€™d lean in.

Your three for sure are for sure.

Given pre med, you may be better anyway at a place you can stand out. Your GPA and MCAT will matter, not Brown or Bowling Green.

Great list if all are affordable and I think you chanced yourself well. With med school you are talking $800k ($400k at Brown) unless you have need so make sure your folks can swing that. Your stats could get you low $20s at very good schools.

Hope you get into the ones you really want.

Best of luck.

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If your list has not solidified, some of these schools may be of interest based on your predilection for Brown:

Lots of students who apply to Brown apply to Wesleyan, for example, and a school such as Hamilton offers a data science major, through which you could combine your interests, excellent robotics facilities and a notably flexible curriculum.

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Exactly!

I actually think you did a good job with this list. Apply to your reaches and see.

Good luck!

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I think that this is a good list as long as you can afford to both pay for four years at Brown and also pay for four years of medical school without taking on any debt for undergrad and only taking modest debt for medical school (if you end up getting there).

I think that Brown is indeed a reach. It is not obvious to me that your chances of ending up in medical school will differ in any meaningful way regardless of whether you end up at Brown, tOSU, or at one of the other very good schools on your list.

I think that your safeties are very good universities, and that you have a chance at your reaches. Best wishes.

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