What are my chances for Emory?

iceskater19
Sun, 18 Sep 2016 04:56:16 +0000

Baylor University, UT Austin, and UT Dallas are my safety schools. (Brown, Columbia, and WashU are my reach schools)
I want to major in political science and/or neurobiology. (I know that we just have to have the pre req’s done for pre-med)

-I know Emory has a great neuroscience major and a good political science minor.

What vaguely are my chances of getting in? Are there any schools that I am not considering?

-SAT Score: 2130 (690 read, 730 math, 710 writing)
*planning to retake the new SAT
-GPA Unweighted: 3.69/4; Weighted 4.55; this is not very good, but I messed up in my math class freshman year, my rank was 127, and then I nearly halved that my junior year, where I stand at about rank 60 (top 10% of my class)
-planning on taking new SAT and SAT subject tests in math 2 and literature
-Officer of NEHS
-Officer of Red Cross
-playing in orchestra for 8 years, made all area-region this year
-participant of science fair for 13 years, got my twelve year award this year
-went to city science fair 3 times
-received a special award from Houston Academy of Medicine for my sci project
-volunteered 100+ hours at Texas Children’s Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine
-attendee of Youth Medical Summit in Rice University (hosted by Houston Health museum)
-tutored children for 2 years
-took 6 AP classes so far, got a 4/5 on all, going to take 4 more this coming year
-end of senior year, I would have taken 12 AP classes in high school.
-Presidential Award for Volunteering

I know Emory is great and they have a lot of opportunities for interning/researching on on-campus medical facilities. I also love the environment - much better than UT Austin (a little to widespread) for me.

**Also Emory has Scholars program, where they offer financial aid based on merit. The deadline is sooner than the regular decision but if I don’t get into this, do you know if that will have any impact on my holistic review?

Rice is a great university, but I don’t think I can get in based on my GPA. It’s also quite expensive, and I don’t know if my parents are willing to pay for that for undergrad, especially since for premed undergrad doesn’t really matter. I really want to go out of state (TX) and I think that Emory would be worth the price if I get in.