Chance me for hypsm [NY resident, 3.94 GPA, 1550 SAT, neuroscience, pre-med]

Chance Me / Match Me
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note: these are projected stats but still pls take seriously as if it were real

Demographics

  • US domestic
  • State/Location of residency: NY
  • Type of high school (or current college for transfers): Private
  • Other special factors: *(first generation to college, legacy, recruitable athlete, etc.): First-gen but high income

Cost Constraints / Budget: no aid needed

Intended Major(s): neuroscience/pre med

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.94
  • Weighted HS GPA: idk, school doesn’t do weighted
  • Class Rank: N/A
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1550 SAT: 780M, 770R

List your HS coursework: Max rigor at school, around 5 ap’s, 4’s and 5’s on all. Taking a few senior year

  • English: Yes
  • Math: So far precalc, but doing calc bc next year
  • Science: ap bio, ap chem.
  • History and social studies: APUSH
  • Language other than English: French 4
  • Visual or performing arts:
  • Other academic courses:

Awards

  1. ISEF Finalist
  2. USABO Finalist
  3. MIT Think Semifinalist
  4. Scholastic gold key in writing

Extracurriculars
(Include leadership, summer activities, competitions, volunteering, and work experience):

  1. Research: 9, 10, 11:
    With a mentor on computational neuroscience, qualified for isef
  2. Internship at medical lab: 9
    Directly contributed to device prototyping and gained skills
  3. Lab research: 10, 11
    Conducted research done in a t10 med school lab, published in a reputable journal
  4. YouTube channel: 10, 11, 12
    Tutored different subjects, mainly bio. 10k-15k subs
  5. writer; blog: 10, 11, 12
    Blog with decent traction, on neuroscience and psychology. also got scholastic gold key from writing
  6. internship at niche medical company
  7. tennis team captain
  8. hospital volunteering : 110 hours
  9. piano, completed 8 levels of rcm

Essays/LORs/Other
essays: personal should be decent, supps probably a bit better. overall 9-9.5/10.
recs: expect super good: 9.75-10/10

Schools
(List of colleges by your initial chance estimate; designate if applying ED/EA/RD; if unsure, leave them unclassified)

If a scholarship is necessary for affordability, indicate that you are aiming for a scholarship and use the scholarship chance to estimate it into the appropriate group below; also, for colleges that admit by major or division, consider that in chance estimate.

  • Assured (100% chance of admission and affordability):
  • Extremely Likely:
  • Likely: Cornell, UPenn
  • Toss-up: Harvard(REA), MIT, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Princeton
  • Lower Probability: Caltech, Yale, Stanford
  • Low Probability:
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You are new here so here are a few truths:

You will not be chanced based on projected stats. Please report your actual accomplishments and metrics.

Every single school you’ve listed is a major reach. Cornell and UPenn are not likely for anyone. Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Brown, Princeton, and Dartmouth are not toss-ups (50/50) for anyone.

Please take some time to look through this forum to get some perspective on the current college application landscape. With what you’ve written here, you need a large dose of reality.

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Cornell and U.Penn are not likely. They are reaches.

MIT, Harvard, Columbia and Princeton are not toss-up’s. They are reaches. Caltech, Yale, and Stanford are similarly reaches.

There are no safeties on your list. There are no likely’s on your list.

You should figure that somewhere between 80% and 85% of applicants to these schools have stats similar to yours. You know what the acceptance rates are.

If you do get to attend MIT or Caltech you should be aware that you might be an average student at these schools. Your math SAT score is actually a tiny bit low for MIT and Caltech. There really are students at these two schools who did not see a single question on the math part of the regular SAT test that was remotely challenging. These students still find classes at MIT or Caltech to be challenging.

Make sure that you apply to safeties.

You can attend any of a few hundred colleges and universities in the US and have about the same chance of getting accepted to medical school. Yes the top schools do get a higher percentage of their incoming freshman to medical school. However, a lot of this, and some might speculate perhaps all of this, comes from the consistent high quality of the students who start at these top schools. There will be plenty of equally strong students in premed classes at any of the SUNY’s or any other “top 200” university, but there will just be a higher number of them at HYPSM.

And if you are serious about being premed (and your ECs make it look like you are), then you should budget for a full 8 years of university. It would be best if you can save some money in the college fund for medical school, or for some other form of graduate school.

One last thing that might be worth mentioning: Your stats are excellent. Your stats suggest that you are academically strong enough to get to medical school and do well. This is however a long and expensive and very demanding path. You need to be drawn to it. Determination and hard work and sticking with it for a full 8 years (plus residency) are going to be at least as important as academic strength.

And you need to apply to safeties. Depending upon how much you like your safeties, you might also want to apply to likely’s.

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I understand. Are the awards/ecs near hypsm level(I know there’s no formulaic way of assessing this; but just based on your intuition)?

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I think so, yes. I think that you are a competitive applicant for any university. The problem is that for the top ranked universities in the US so are the vast majority of other applicants to these schools. Admissions to schools at the HYPSM level is very competitive, very hard to predict, and not entirely merit based. It is just very hard to know how this will come out.

Also admissions is significantly more competitive and harder to predict compared to when I was attending university, which was a while ago.

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Nobody can provide any meaningful information based on what you believe may happen, and what you may achieve, courses that you may take, and grades that you may achieve on these courses.

If and when you have actually achieved the accolades and awards and GPA that you project that you will receive and achieve, you can return and ask the College Confidential community for advice. As it is now, it is meaningless and not helpful for anybody.

Closing the thread.

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