Match Me: Neuro/Pre-Med, 3.95 UW, 1570 SAT

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics

  • US Citizen
  • State/Location of residency: west coast
  • Type of high school (or current college for transfers): Competitive Public (my school’s average sat is literally a 1400)
  • Other special factors: N/A

Cost Constraints / Budget
Full Pay

Intended Major(s) Neuro, Bio, Psych (pre-med)

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 3.95 (two Bs in one semester of science & math classes (happened in the same semester), both were A second semester though)
  • Weighted HS GPA: 4.66
  • Class Rank: Top 20% (not sure exactly)
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1570 SAT

List your HS coursework

12 AP Classes, all 5s so far, taking 5 this year

  • English: Honors 9 & 10, AP Lang (5), currently in AP Lit
  • Math: Alg 2, Precalc, Calc AB (5) (chose to take because of course load in other classes so I didnt want to skip), Currently in Calc BC
  • Science: Honors Bio & Physics, AP Chem (5), Currently in AP Bio & AP Physics 1
  • History and social studies: Ethnic Studies, AP Euro (5), APUSH (5), Currently AP Psych
  • Language other than English: Honors Spanish 2 & 3, AP Spanish Lang (5)
  • Visual or performing arts: AP Music Theory (5)
  • Other academic courses: 1 bio course at CC (A)

Awards
Regional violin awards (6) (and some of those “national/international” competitions that aren’t really that big)
Regional ice hockey awards (2) (all team-based, 1 championship, 1 based on academics)
National ice hockey awards (3) (all team-based, top 30 teams in us)
(womens ice hockey is not very competitive so these awards are not impressive the way a top 30 in volleyball or a larger sport would be, i also have no individual recognition)
PVSA (3) (1 bronze, 1 gold, 1 gold projected)

Extracurriculars
no exact numbers or details for privacy

  • paper (literature review in student journal related to major)
  • research internship/summer program (40 hrs/ week, 9 weeks)
  • hospital volunteer (3 hrs/week, 1 year)
  • non profit ( :roll_eyes:) (15 hrs/week, 4 years), about 50 active members and reached a few hundred people
  • healthcare service project (from a larger org) w/ leadership (6 hrs/week, 3 years) (minimal impact in terms of what the service was (just education & advocacy) but reached a few thousand people)
  • other volunteer thing (not very related to major) (6 hrs/week, 4 years) (also minimal impact (education & advocacy), taught a few hundred kids in it)
  • ice hockey captain (for 1 season) (10 hrs/week, 4 years, im not very good so not recruited, all my awards are due to my club team being good and just being on the roster tbh :sob:)
  • 2 club leadership (one related to major and one not related) (8 hrs/week, 4 years)
  • peer tutor in science (4 hrs/ week, 2 years)

Essays/LORs/Other
Personal Statement: 6/10 → representative of myself but a little boring

LOR
ap chem teacher: 8/10
ap lang teacher 6/10
violin teacher 8/10
one of my volunteer coordinators 7/10

Schools
I’m interested in small & mid size schools but not sure where i can realistically apply to

Current List:

Safety:
UC merced, riverside (i’m doing all the UCs) + guaranteed to merced/riverside because of top 9% CA resident

Target:
St. Olaf
UC Davis, Santa Cruz

Reach:
Case Western
Franklin & Marshall
The remaining UCs
Smith

I would like to get feedback on what is on my list so far and what I can add.

Also, if any of these are good for ED → Currently I’m considering Case Western or F&M since they are more realistic for acceptance for me than Smith.

Thank you in advance!

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I think you will get in everywhere on your list. Want to reach a little higher? Also, if you can go the recruited athlete route for women’s ice hockey, you might get in to any school as a recruited athlete, because, as you pointed out, women’s ice hockey isn’t that competitive.

You’d also be a valuable violinist at any school that doesn’t have a conservatory, but has an orchestra.

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You are a very strong student and will be a competitive applicant anywhere. You have the stats to apply to any school that interests you. Before doing that, you need to find out what your budget is and run the NPC at any school that you are considering so you can see if it would be within budget. I can’t chance you for the UCs as they are unpredictable. You should review the SCOIR/Naviance for your school and see how students with your stats typically fare (with the understanding that there are no guarantees). I don’t think Franklin & Marshall is a reach for you - it is more like a Target. The same goes for Case Western (although you need to show a lot of interest - they are afraid that students with your stats are using them as a safety). There are lots of small/mid-size schools out there - what are you looking for. If you give us some direction we can make some suggestions.

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