Please chance me on Duke ED!!!

Hiiamint
Fri, 10 Jul 2015 20:22:13 +0000

Let me start by congratulating you on your stellar ACT score. I doubt that your GPA will be too big of a problem, especially with your increasing trend and still a pretty fine GPA, (Impressiveness of top 10% would vary according to your school; maybe you can start by where your school’s last year’s top 10% got accepted?)

As for your ECs, I am less sure; they seem rather diverse but scattered, and unrelated to your major (except the research, but not sure how impressive that is/if its related to medicine). You have to remember the medicine is the subject that attracts the best of students, and that a lot of them are Asian. Your essays/recommendations have to be good in order to set you apart. As you seem like an extremely talented swimmer, maybe you should write about them in your essays, and connect it (somehow) to your passion for medicine? That seems like something that not many other applicants will have.

Overall, you are a very competitive candidate overall with high scores and a fine GPA (check top 10% of last year’s graduating class; if some of them went to schools such as Duke, I wouldn’t sweat about your GPA. Even if they didn’t, your increasing trend should be more than enough to cover up your bad 9th GPA) Applying ED seems like a great idea if you are sure that Duke is your first choice, and I’d say that Duke is a Low Reach/High Match for you, depending on your essays. Even if you get rejected (Let’s hope not!), always remember that application at a school such as Duke is too random to be too sad about it.

Good luck, and thanks for chancing me!