Looking for Target Schools and Realistic Reaches :)

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I am just looking for advice as to what safety/target schools I should look for. I am interested in biomedical sciences/biology and either double-majoring or minoring in international relations. (dream schools include Columbia, Georgetown, and Emory).
STATS
UW GPA 3.98 WGPA 4.67
10 APs by the end of senior year
APUSH, AP Gov, AP Chemistry, AP Lang, AP Psych …Senior Year AP French, AP Lit, AP Physics 1, AP Calc AB, AP Comp Gov, and College Molecular Genetics
Leadership-
Class executive board member
President of french honors society and UNICEF Club
Secretary of Applied Statistics Club and Lobbying Director of Girl Up Club
Red Cross Citizen CPR Leader
EC
National Honors Society (Science, History, English, and French honors societies as well)
3 yrs on girls basketball team
5 years of guitar
volunteer for Georgetown University Hospital
Birthday Cakes 4 Free volunteer
global health summer project
Lead editor of a student-run photo-blog
Thanks
(i’m also an identical twin, and grew up overseas)

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@sade123

SAT,ACT?

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ACT 32

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I have taken 3 subject tests (800 on Chemistry) and I waiting for my scores on the other ones (french and math)

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@sade123


Do you have any hooks? Which of the three are you applying early to?

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African American, born in Atlanta but grew up in Southern Africa, currently launching a global health initiative with my sister to help healthcare personnel in Sierra Leone

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I think Emory is possible, but Georgetown and Columbia are so competitive it becomes a crapshoot. However I don’t think it would be an immediate rejection from any of them. If you could get your ACT to a 34 you would have a solid chance at all of your dream schools. Other schools that come to mind that are similar in competitiveness (Wake Forest, UNC chapel Hill, UVA, Davidson, William and Mary, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Duke)

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What are you looking for in a school?

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Offers interdisciplinary studies as I want to pursue biomed and international relations, preferrably in an established city while also having a real “traditional” college campus at the same time, medium sized, study abroad, and I want to stay on the east coast.

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Johns Hopkins is super strong in both fields & they like hard workers.