Chance Me Please!! NY Sophomore :)

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Sun, 10 Mar 2019 00:25:36 +0000

Looking for chances (as well as any advice to improve my application) of getting into moderately competitive schools like UCLA, UC Berkeley, NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western (I think schools like the Ivy Leagues are a bit out of reach for me)

Black
~$60K-70K a year
Mildly Competitive Public High School in Upstate New York
Prospective science major (probably biology or something like that) hoping to get into medical school after undergrad
Top ~4% of my class as of last year, I’ve probably moved up a bit (20/~500 as of last year)
PSAT 10: 1300 (Didn’t study at all, I’m working on getting this up)

8th Grade [Only Includes Advanced Classes Taken that are on Transcript]
Studio Art - A-
Spanish 1 - A-

9th Grade
English 9H - A+
Global 9H - A+
Biology - A+
Algebra 1 - A
Spanish 2 - A+
Band 9 - A+
Gym/Pool - A+

10th Grade [As of Now]
English 10H - A+
AP European History - A+
Chemistry H -A+
Geometry H - A (might be able to get this up to an A+ by the end of the year)
Spanish 3 - A+
Band 10 - A+
Gym - A+

11 Grade [Not Finalized]
AP Lang
AP US History
[Don’t know which science class I’ll be taking yet, hoping for AP Bio]
[Also trying to move up a math level over the summer or something so I don’t know about math classes yet]
[Also hoping to get into AP Comp Sci or a Science Research Class]
College Spanish 1
Band 11
Gym

12 Grade [Again, Not Finalized and Just What I’m Hoping For]
AP Lit
AP Gov/Politics
AP Physics
or
AP Chem (maybe both :0)
AP Calculus BC
College Spanish 2
Band 12
Health
Gym

Extracurriculars
Karate (3rd Degree Black Belt)
Marching Band (2 years as of now)
2 Jobs as a lifeguard over the summer
Self studied to close to fluency in Spanish over the summer
Music Production (80k+ plays online and performed at a few notable events e.g. music festivals and been featured in the radio and newspaper)
Key Club (1 year as of now)
Class of 2021 Club this club organizes and carries out class of 2021 events
Science Olympiads (1 year as of now)
~70 hours of community service so far
(Applied for a peer tutoring position in biology, hoping to be paired up with someone)
Hopeful for leadership positions in Marching band, Class of 2021, Key Club and Science Olympiads. Will most likely be accepted into Spanish Honor Society and National Honor Society

I wasn’t placed in honors math or science in 9th grade (despite having a 96 average in 8th grade science, I’m kinda mad about this and the fact that I didn’t talk to someone about it freshman year) and I’ve been a bit stressed out about having to apply with this as a prospective science major, I hope it doesn’t seem like STEM is my weak spot. I really wanted to improve the science part of my application and I genuinely love science and medicine. I was planning on getting certified as an EMT and volunteering through a program with my local ambulance service. As well as chances is there anything else I could do to improve my application specifically in terms if science (or in general)? Any suggestions would help, thank you so much!

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