What are my chances and how can I improve them?

taurustorus
Mon, 20 Jun 2005 19:29:30 +0000

if you check, the OP didn’t just post his SAT scores. when i said “slightly”, i took his whole post into account. slightly = perfect SAT IIs (usually, 800SATIIC, 800 Writing, 800 of a science). “slightly” also referred to strong hooks… national merit finalist (so semi-finalist during admissions process; OP will probably be one too), intel/micron semi-finalist, presidential scholar nominees, etc. i’ll give a specific example of one guy. he has a 4.1 GPA at one of the top publics (4.0 unweighted, i’m guessing), perfect SAT/SAT IIs, is a national merit finalist, an intel semi-finalist (researches at NIH), has awesome volunteer record and strong leadership positions (i don’t want to get too specific in case he doesn’t want me talking about him). he was waitlisted from brown (comparable to dartmouth) and rejected from johns hopkins. he’s heading to baylor on a full-ride, and i’m praying that he gets off their 8-yr med program’s waitlist.