Chances please!!! (HPME or Biomed)

Colleges & Universities Northwestern University
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<p>Thank you for taking the time to read my thread. I might apply to HPME (although I know my chances to that would be low) or try Biomedical Engineering. I am also considering Financial Economics at Kellogg. So I haven’t really decided yet, but here I go. </p>

<p>Here are some of my stats:</p>

<p>White Male (came from Europe right before 7th grade, I have dual citizenship)
First in family to attend college in US</p>

<p>SATs
Math IIC: 800
Chem: 770
will take the French SAT II next time</p>

<p>ACT with writing: 35</p>

<p>GPA UW: 4.0
GPA W: 5.0
Rank: 2/610</p>

<p>AP Chem 5
AP Stats 5</p>

<p>Most rigorous schedule possible.</p>

<p>Senior year schedule:</p>

<p>AP Biology
AP Calculus BC
AP English
AP US Government
AP Physics B
AP French
Honors Spanish 3</p>

<p>I can almost speak four languages (since I lived in Europe for 13 years)</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>Hospital Volunteer - about 150 hours doing it for 2 years
Chess Team (co-captain) 4 years
National Honor Society 2 years
Mathematics Honor Society 2 years
French Honor Society (treasurer) 3 years
National Merit Commended (i think)
Scholastic Bowl 2 years
Math Team 4 years
Math Tutor
Gold Caddie past two summers
Have done a fund raiser for My Lai Peace Park in Vietnam
Various other jobs (the more significant one is one that I have been goind for 3 years but only requires 2-4 hours a week)</p>

<p>Awards:
1st place in Math team conference at junior level
Student of the month for various things
Other school awards</p>

<p>There might be other things I can’t remember right now.</p>

<p>My recommendations should be excellent and he essays should be pretty good too. </p>

<p>I will apply RD.</p>

<p>Thank you very much for the help.</p>

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<p>I mean, obviously your stats are amazing, I would say you are as close to a shoo-in as it gets to the engineering program. I really have limited experience with HPME other than that i know it’s very competitive, someone who has experience might be able to give you more information.</p>

<p>PS how is it possible that you’re salutatorian with a 4.0 UW 5.0W? does your grading scale go above 5.0?</p>

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<p>You have a pretty good shot at NU. I can’t really say anything about HPME because its really competitive and unpredictable at times. You have to be 100% sure that you want to be a doctor. Why do you want to do the Financial Economics certificate if you want to be a doctor?</p>

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<p>^^money. money. and more money.</p>

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<p>elsifdl - I’m the salutatorian because the person ahead of me leads by less than .05 :(. The scale is: A worth 4 points, and then each honors/AP class adds .2 to the the GPA for the semester taking that class. So I had 4 honors classes as a freshman and sophomore and 5 honors and 2 AP as a junior. After three years the W GPA came out as 5.0</p>

<p>eternity1115 - I’m debating between doctor and finance/economics because I 'm not sure if I will not be able to pay for the 7 or 8 years of school it takes to become a doctor (and I would not like to leave school with 100K or more in debt). </p>

<p>Thank you for the responses so far.</p>