Chance Me for Top Schools

Chance Me / Match Me
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State-NJ
Unweighted GPA: 3.8
Weighted GPA: 4.5
11 APs
Bio-5; Chem-Taking; Cal AB;5 Cal BC-Taking; Lang-4; Lit-Taking; Economics-5; Statistics-4; Psychology-5; US Gov-5; Political Government-5
SAT 2: Bio-780 ; Chem-780 ; Math 2-800 ; World History-800
ACT-35
My School is SUPER competitive and does not rank

EC’s:
Published DNA clones in Rutgers Waksman Science Program. My clone was published in their Molecular Biology database. In this club we did research and conducted multiple labs using advanced technology (9-12)
Volunteered over 300 hours at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital in Rutgers (10-12)
Shadowed Doctors for 100 hours (9-12)
Award of Excellence for delegate at Congress for Future Physicians and Medical Leaders
Organized and spoke at multiple Tedx events on modern day issues for high school students (9-12)
Created a non profit that helps teach financial literacy to underprivileged students (10-12)
President of Finance Club in School (11-12)
Participated in many prestigious art competitions and won many awards, I love art
Received the Williams College Book Award
Played Varsity Soccer and Volleyball

Was a referee for youth soccer in underprivileged areas. Helped develop kids soccer skills and provided mentor ship and guidance in their lives (10-12)
Created a club called “Mentor Them” for students at my school, gave opportunity to my peers to provide leadership to younger kids. In this, high school students could teach unprivileged kids on topic they are passionate about. (10-12)
Small Things like NHS and Student Council as well

Summer:
Research Internship for 6 weeks after sophomore year at Rutgers, conducted research in Biology
Research Internship for 5 weeks after junior year at Temple, conducted research in Biology
Attended Finance Camp for 3 weeks at UPenn.

LOR from Professor at Rutgers, Professor at Temple, Biology Teacher, Soccer Coach and Doctor at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital

Major: Finance/Economics but I will be doing Pre-Med

Essays are strong also, wrote about love for soccer, life lessons I’ve learned and how they’ve motivated me to help others-as a result, i started my nonprof and my club

Schools I’m Applying to:
UPenn,Tufts, Georgetown, Swarthmore, Middlebury, Bates, Bowdoin, Cornell, USC, Emory, UMich, Rice, Uchicago, NYU, Penn St, UT Austin, Colgate, Colby

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What is your budget?

What schools do you consider to be safeties?

3

You have competitive stats but you still need safeties. None of the schools on your list are safeties for anyone.

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I am very fortunate as I can attend any university regardless of cost, and forgot to include safeties which are: Rutgers, Wisconsin, Bucknell, Maryland and Villanova

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I’d be surprised if you didn’t get into any of the schools

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With these stats and ECs if any school rejects you, it is their loss.

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@nomansisland are you talking about my target schools or my safety’s?

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both

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What do you guys think about Rice, it’s my ED2?

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You can’t ED2 to Rice.

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Lol sry I meant early action

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You can’t EA to Rice, either. It’s only one round of ED.

I suggest you do a bit more research. It’s a great school and I think you’d thrive there, but they do consider interest.

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“LOR from Professor at Rutgers, Professor at Temple, Biology Teacher, Soccer Coach and Doctor at Robert Wood Johnson Hospital”

You’re going to need another teacher letter, preferably from a humanities/social science teacher since you have biology. Schools like Rice usually want a rec from stem, one from non-stem and your GC. Do not send the others, adcoms will think it’s superfluous and either not be happy you sent them or not read them or both. IOW, you’re going to have to show your fit with only what the college wants to see, and your competition for places like Rice will do that.

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For Maryland, the more popular programs like biology are limited enrollment . It’s a good backup, but as OOS, not a true safety unless you apply by priority deadline. NJ kids I know think they can use it as a safety,so they apply later, then get accepted, but not into the LEP programs. Do your research , even for the backups.

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Should get into most of your schools.

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RE what @theloniusmonk said–have one rec from STEM, one from arts/humanities, and one from your GC. Only include ONE additional rec if you are SURE that it’ll show off an important part of your personality/passions/etc that isn’t visible in your other recs.
(FWIW, I did submit an additional rec from a coach. I talked (at least briefly) about my sport in all of my Rice essays, especially the Common App and perspectives essays.)