How are my chances for Premed/CAS? Early Action

Colleges & Universities University of Pittsburgh
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<p>Name: Vijon
Ethnicity: Indian (Asian)
Gender: Male
Financial Needs: None</p>

<p>GPA: 3.15 (Weak)
ACT: 25
SAT: 1800</p>

<p>GPA Trend: 1st/2nd Semesters
Freshman Year 2.8/2.4
Sophomore Year 3.0/3.6
Junior Year 3.2/3.7</p>

<p>Class Rigor:
Honors English 9
Honors English 10
Honors Biology
Honors Algebra II
Honors World Studies
Honors Pre Calculus
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
AP Language and Composition
IB Biology
AP Literature
AP Government
AP European History</p>

<p>Regular Courses:
US History
Chemistry
Economics
Physics</p>

<p>Electives:
Astronomy
Creative Writing
Debate
Health
Gym
Psychology
(SENIOR)
(SENIOR)</p>

<p>Extra Curriculars:</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Played High School Tennis for Four Years
Junior Varsity - Two Years
Varsity - Two Years</p></li>
<li><p>Part of High School Quizbowl Team for Four Years
Made it to states each year
Participated at states and other competitions before states</p></li>
<li><p>Debate Team for Three Years
First year was Novice Debate
Second and Third were Varsity Debates</p></li>
<li><p>Charity Program at School Two Years
Helped with fundraiser for St.Judes
Collected Money for Unicef
Participated in other activities</p></li>
<li><p>Multicultural Club at School Two years
Participated</p></li>
<li><p>Hospital Volunteering about 100 Hours
Worked in an Office
Helped with Popcorn Popping
Helped with sending Financial AID letters out</p></li>
<li><p>Medical Research
Researched Bone marrow Stem Cells
Participated in lab work</p></li>
<li><p>Campaigned and Canvassing for State Senate
Went Door to Door
Helped work in Democratic Headquarters of town</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Other:
Two positive letters from BU professors at a summer program at Boston University.
Will get good teacher recommendations from my AP Lang and IB Biology teachers.
Will write a great essay.</p>

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<p>I would recommend taking the SAT again and getting that up. Pitt is very numbers driven, from what I have observed. A smaller school might take a closer look at your extracurriculars.</p>

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<p>You’ve posted three ACT scores today - 24, 25 & 27. Which is your actual score?
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<p>I’m always very skeptical about the usefulness of “chance me” threads. Rather than rely on random opinions from random people, I think you should look up the admitted students profile for each school that you’re interested in and see how you compare. Many schools make this information readily available, and for those that don’t you can use College Board. On College Board you’ll also find the factors and their respective weights in the admission process for each school. </p>

<p>Just by looking at the information that you shared, I would guess that your best chances are with schools that give a lot of weight to extracurriculars and rigor of curriculum. This way you may be able to compensate for your rather weak GPA and test scores. Regardless of which schools you end up applying to, you should try to boost your GPA as much as you can during the 1st semester of your senior year. Also, rather than retake both the ACT and SAT, focus on the one that you feel you did better on and retake it–I would guess that’s the SAT since 1800 for the SAT is probably better than 25 for the ACT. Aim to improve your SAT score by at least 100-150 points. Good luck!</p>