Chance for upper level schools!

<p>Hello!</p>

<p>SAT: 2170 (retaking and trying for 2250+)
SAT Subject Tests (taking soon)
Chemistry
English
Math II
US History</p>

<p>GPA 4.3 (including freshman year when no weighted classes were available)</p>

<p>Top 10% of class (we are given a specific rank anymore but last year I was 11/650)</p>

<p>Classes:
Freshmen Year
IDEA Biology A
IDEA World History A
English I Accelerated A
Acc. Alg. II with trig A
Tennis team A
Chinese II A
*IDEA is slightly more difficult than accelerated classes </p>

<p>Sophomore Year
AP European History (5) A
Honors pre- calc A
Acc. English II A
Tennis Team A
Chinese III A
IDEA Chemistry A</p>

<p>Junior Year (this year)
Ap Calculus BC B
Ap us history A
Ap comp A
Ap chemistry A
Ap Chinese 5 A</p>

<p>Senior year projected schedule
Ap art history
Ap government
Ap lit
Ap bio
Ap psychology<br>
Ap stats</p>

<p>ECs
Key club
NHS (technology chair)
Academic decathlon
Science Olympiad</p>

<p>Volunteering (over 800 hours)
Various fundraisers, donation drives, school functions
Work at two hospitals each week and on the student board for one of them
Community service group vice president (outside of school) also VP two years ago</p>

<p>One summer I had an internship at a local hospital for three weeks where I observes surgeries, ran errands, and prepared kits for the following day</p>

<p>Accepted into bank of America student leader program for this upcoming summer </p>

<p>Major: biology (pre-med)</p>

<p>Colleges I am considering:
ivy leagues
Stanford
UCLA
John’s Hopkins
BC
UVA
northeastern
U of Chicago
Notre dame
Duke
Tufts
WA in St. Louis
Etc etc</p>

<p>Thank you so much!</p>

<p>Your SAT scores are a bit too low to be competitive. Some of the lower schools (JHU, WUSTL) should be low reaches. The Ivies and Ivy-peer schools are huge reaches because of your lack of meaningful ECs. What’s your intended major?</p>

<p>Intended major is most likely biology to continue on to medical school.
What do you mean by my ECs not being meaningful?
Thanks for the input!</p>

<p>Any other opinions? Thanks! :)</p>

<p>Bump! Bump!</p>

<p>Academics/ECs are a little weak for Stanford, Duke, and Ivy League level schools with the possible exception of Cornell which isn’t the greatest for pre-med. Everything else is within grasp but some of them (JHU, UChicago, WashU) aren’t overly so.</p>

<p>Okay thanks!
Anyone have some ideas on how to improve my ECs? Also I feel my academics are pretty strong… Is there any area in which I am lacking? (Other than SAT as I already am working to improve that)</p>