DYING to know

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>What are some schools I should look at?</p>

<p>Female, Indian
relatively wealthy family
Junior, from a pretty highly ranked Public school in MA</p>

<p>GPA: 3.7
SAT: 2100 (taking them -November)
ACT: 29.5 (taking again next fall also)
SAT IIs: Math 2 - 710
Chemistry - 730
World History - 610
US History - 680</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
President of Science Olympiad club (10th, 11th grade)
Vice President of Student Council (11th)
Founder of our school’s chapter of the Science Olympiad Club (10th)
Secretary of Student Council (10th)
Model UN - chairperson twice, won 5 awards, 2 being Most Outstanding delegate awards, and one from an International Conference
Works as Dispatcher at volunteer ambulance (9th, 10th, 11th)
Secretary of Explorers club at Ambulance (10th)
Interned at Pediatric Cardiology department in hosiptal (10th)
Job: Counselor at camp by temple (11th)
Varsity Indoor and Outdoor track (8th, 9th, 10th, 11th)- hurdler and pole vaulter (2nd place at Sectionals for Indoor Track)
Flute (7 years) in Wind Ensemble
Piano (11 years) and participates in biannual Multi-piano concerts
National Honor Society (11)</p>

<p>Awards:
Semi-finalist of the Ayn Rand “Anthem” Essay Contest
Model UN (see above)
Honor roll recipient every year
“Sportsmanship” Award for Indoor Track (11th) - invited to Sports Excellence Banquet</p>

<p>Grades and Courses:</p>

<p>9th:
Global 9 - A+
Concert Band - A+
Biology - A
Studio Art - A
English 9 Honors - A-
Int. Geometry Honors - A
Spanish 9 Honors - A-</p>

<p>10th:
AP European History A-
English 10 Honors A-
Algebra II Honors B+
Chemistry Honors B+
Spanish 10 Honors A-
Concert Band A+
Anatomy I A
Anatomy II A-</p>

<p>11th:
AP Statistics B
AP Chemistry B+
AP US History B+
PreCalc Honors B+
Spanish 11 Honors B+
English 11 Honors A-
Wind Ensemble A+</p>

<p>12th: (what I’ll be taking next year)
AP Biology
AP Calculus AB
AP Psychology
AP English
AP Spanish
Regents Economics
Regents Participation in Gov
Physics Honors</p>

<p>How’s the situation looking? Just want to know what types of schools you think I should look at… any hopes for Ivy leagues? (I’m not really interested in Ivy Leagues necessarily, but I’m just curious to know). Thanks so much!</p>

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<p>ah realized something i forgot… since i work/volunteer at the ambulance, i rack up the hours pretty quick, so i have approx. 400 community service hours. my GPA that says 3.7 is unweighted, and our school doesn’t do ranking, weighted GPAs, or any of that stuff.</p>

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<p>does that GPA of 3.7 include your freshman year? many colleges tend to recalculate GPA without freshman year. the SAT score needs to be higher and the grades need to go up too. ivies will be tough. of course, i’m sure you’ll have a fighting chance at any top institution.</p>

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<p>yeah, it does include freshman year unfortunately. i’ve taken a million practice SATs, and my best score i’ve gotten so far has been 680 Critical Reading, 730 Math, 750 Writing, but those were just practice tests, so i figured a 2100 may be what i’m at right now (i’m taking the real SATs in June). thanks for the feedback!</p>

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<p>how are my chances for schools like… emory, tufts, university of virginia, carnegie mellon… if i was thinking about applying in biology or possibly biomedical engineering</p>