New to This! Chance me!

tm1211
Fri, 30 Jul 2010 23:20:58 +0000

i made an account here just for this purpose. Johns Hopkins has always been a dream school for both undergrad and grad for med. i’ve been considering my chances, and cant get a very clear idea. Also, i cant decide which would help me more: applying ED or RD.

SAT: 1810 (690 math, 550 writing, 570 CR, definately retaking as this was my first time)
Subject tests: 800 Chem, 800 Bio, 740 Math II
ACT: still need to take
GPA: UW 3.5, do not know weighted.
AP: chem 5, bio 5
Rank: 12-17/102, very small public school and the school messed up ranks, but im between there.

intended major(s): neuroscience and/or biomedical engineering
Reccomendations: 4 total if needed, 1 absolutely amazing, 2 amazing, and 1 decent (3 from science teachers, 1 from counselor)

if it helps, i come frown a lower-middle class family and would be the first to be going to college, and i’m white.

ECs: very weak, sadly.
Interact Club member (extension of Rotary)
Tutor for past 3 years

HS Classes(all honors/scholars/whatever youd like to call them):

Freshman:
Geometry
Biology
French II
English 9
American Cultures I
Public Speaking
bio lab

Sophomore:
French III
Spanish II (took first year in 8th grade)
Algebra II
Chemistry
American Cultures II
English 10
chem lab

Junior:
French IV (AUDIT)
AP Chem
AP bio
Pre-AP English 11
Physics (we dont offer AP physics, but its exactly like AP Mechanics)
bio/chem/physics lab

Senior:
AP Calc AB
English 12
Organic Chem
Anatomy
Economics
AP US Gov’t
Stats
two periods I’ll be teaching and instructing AP chem and lab, most likely AP Bio as well.
Also, during second semester ill be taking Dual-Enrollment classes, either Organic Chem I or Intro to analytical chem

sadly, like i said before, i come from an incredibly small and relatively unknown public school. it, and its three surrounding communities, are slowly dying and there’s not much to do here to get involved. we barely offer AP classes like other schools, and only offer AP Calc AB, chem, bio, gov’t, and english. that, and my class rank, has me worried a great deal. my counselor already told me she will try and explain my class rank and transcript in comparision to our current valedictorian, but im still worried.

chances please? will return.