Graduate school admission factors

ohnoes
Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:51:30 +0000

If this belongs in a different section, sorry - I assumed that the admissions forums are for initially applying to college, and there are no general graduate forums.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I didn’t really do much of anything in high school 9-10th grade. I’m a junior now, and although I’ll do some things (probably end up with ~100-200 hours of ECs, do Summer Ventures (a 4-week summer program oriented towards math and science students), and no sports on the account of the fact that I weighed 250lbs until the 10th grade, and now that I weigh 175 its been so long since I played sports I’m not really good at anything), I’m fairly certain I can’t get into any of the “elite” universities, and plan on attending a college like UNC-Chapel Hill (in-state).

But I disgress. My question is, what do colleges take into consideration when applying for graduate school? If I did well enough in my undergraduate years, how hard would it be to get into a graduate school such as Johns Hopkins or Duke (both obviously longshots)? Thanks.