Ivy Leagues and combined med

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>What are my chances at the IVY leagues and combined med programs (6,7,8 year) and also for northwestern, washU, and chicago?</p>

<p>Standardized Tests:
ACT: 34 (36 M 33 S 33 R 33 W 10 for the essay)
SAT I: 2220 (770 M 690 CR 760 W 10 for the essay)
SAT II: Have not taken yet but taking Chem and Math IIC and hoping for a 700+ on both
PSAT: 201 didn’t do my best but I got national merit and will probably get commended</p>

<p>School:
GPA: 3.999 unweighted
Class Rank: About 10 of 300-400…good chance of going up though
Taken all AP and honors classes offered at school along with a couple classes at a university including the following APs:</p>

<p>AP Biology: 5
AP Chemistry
AP Psychology
AP English Language (or whatever the writing one is called)
AP Literature
AP Calculus</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Tennis: 4 years with varsity letter 2 years - Played #2 seed junior year and will likely play #1 seed senior year
Speech Team: 4 years and advancing to state every year in every event
Amnesty International: 2 years
Harmony (Program that encourages diversity and acceptance at our school) Core Member 2 years
Robotics Club: 3 years
Sophomore Leadership
Junior Leadership
Senior Leadership
Karate: Brown Belt and one step away from black belt
Model United Nations: 3 years and top in group several times
Basketball: One year
Hotline (Television show run by students) 5 years and will be director next year as a senior
Future Problem Solving: 5 years and advancing to state 4 years
Autonomous Learners Program for the Highly Able (Gifted and Talented Program) 5 years
Spanish Club: 2 years Vice President as Junior and running for President as senior
Science Bowl Team: 3 years
Boy Scouts of America: 8 years
Member of High School Orchestra: 4 years</p>

<p>Summer Camps and Programs:
Summer before 9th grade: Attended 3 week summer program taking high school classes at a university
Summer before 10th grade: Attended same camp
Summer before 11th grade: Did research for 6 weeks at a university working with a professor of Neurobiology and wrote a research report Title of research: Analyzing the Effects of Age, Sex, and Neurological Mutations on Locomotion in Drosophila Melanogaster
Summer before 12th grade: Attending Harvard University Secondary School Program for 8 weeks and taking Harvard courses</p>

<p>Honors/Awards:
2nd highest score in school on AMC 12 test
Eagle Scout Boy Scout
Order of Arrow for Boy Scouts
Presented research at state science symposium JSHS
Brown Belt in Karate
Several regional awards, trophies, and medals in Karate
Some regional awards in tennis
Honor Roll 2004-2007
Awards for grade point average and being in top 5% at school
Awards for robotics team
Several speech team awards in events including lettering 2 years
Awards in Future Problem Solving
along with several others</p>

<p>Service Hours:
Many service for Boy Scouts including at least 18 hours needed to advance in rank
Put together, supervised, and participated in a service project to get volunteers for CPR program at a local university 25 hours
Volunteered at a Local Hospital 10 hours
Worked for Order of the Arrow Service 12 hours
Volunteered for leadership clubs 15 hours
Aided in weeding and fixing up local tennis courts 2 hours</p>

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<p>good chances
good luck</p>

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<p>bump???</p>

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<p>Reaches: HYP, Columbia, Med Programs
Low Reaches: Brown, Dartmouth
Matches: WashU, Nwestern, Chicago, Penn, Cornell</p>

<p>You need major safeties, although you’ll probably get into a few of your matches and maybe 1 of the others. Med programs are REALLY big on scores though, and I don’t think they’re big ACT fans. Everyone I know who got into one this year had at least a 2300.</p>

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<p>Wow. Better than I could achieve so far. I think that ‘s snack’ just about nailed it:</p>

<p>Reaches: HYP, Columbia, Med Programs
Low Reaches: Brown, Dartmouth
Matches: WashU, Nwestern, Chicago, Penn, Cornell</p>

<p>Yup I agree. and I also agree that you don’t have a single safety. Get at least one (one that you want to go to) or maybe even two.</p>

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<p>Oh, sorry I have safeties I just didn’t list them. My safety is the University of Iowa and I feel I have a reasonably good chance of getting in. I just wanted to know what my chances are of getting into some other schools. Is there anything I can do to improve my app so I have a better chance? I really was looking into those combined programs and they look really appealing.</p>

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<p>oh I also forgot to add boys state to my list…idk if that means anything at all but i figure i might as well put it in there</p>

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<p>Well, hopefully you’ll get into at least a few of those schools, but I would really suggest some more match type schools just to broaden your opportunities. Maybe some good LAC’s and schools like Tufts, Emory, Duke and Vandy.</p>

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<p>Most Ivies don’t have combined med programs. You might add Rice to your list.</p>