What are the chances for Engg/Premed schools - CMU, GA Tech, USC, RPI, CASE, Columbia, Washu etc ?

Chance Me / Match Me
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Basic: Female - Indian American - USA born - Illinois

Academic Information:
GPA: 4.00/4.00 unweighted, 4.4/4.4 weighted (Max Cap 4.4 in school)
AP Classes: Human Geography (4), European History (3), Psychology (5), Physics (3), US History (5)
Senior AP Classes: Calculus AB, Biology, Chemistry, US Government
Honors Classes: English I, Biology, English II, Advanced Algebra, Chemistry, Pre-Calculus and Trigonometry
SAT Total Score: 1520
ACT: 33 (not submitting)

Extra-Curricular Activities:
JV Swim Team - 4 years
Principal Student Advisory Team
Vice President @ Future Medical Professionals Club
National French Honors Society
National Honors Society
Student Mentor
Link Crew
Student Council

Awards:
WYSE Group & Individual Award- 1st place Regional
RISE - Research program Gold state award
Academic All-Conference Award
AP Psychology student of the year

Work Experience:
Swim Coach

Volunteer Experience & Other Activities:
Local Hospital Volunteering (160 Hours)
Free Swim Coaching to children diagnosed with autism, neurological and genetic disabilities (50 Hours)
Physician Shadowing – Pediatrician (20 Hours), family Physician (35 Hours)

Areas of Interest for College:
Biomedical Engineering, Pre-Medicine

Thanks in advance

here are my short listed schools:

My Reach Schools:
Brown University
Stanford University
Columbia University
Georgia Institute of Technology
Johns Hopkins University
University of Southern California
Carnegie Mellon University

Target Schools:
Case Western Reserve University
Wake Forest University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Safety Schools:
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Baylor University
Santa Clara University
St. Louis University
University of Illinois Chicago
George Washington University

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Not apply ED for any schools.
Applying EA and RD for all applicable schools.

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Your stats are good and your ECs are decent. Applying ED would increase your chances of admission to one of these schools.

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Thanks @doorrealthe

without ED, how are my chances. don’t want to apply ED.

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Cost constraints?

Remember, medical school is very expensive. So saving money and avoiding debt in undergraduate should be important considerations.

But also, most pre-meds do not get into any medical school. Be sure that you have non-medical-school plans you like in that likely event (biomedical engineering is not as good as many other kinds of engineering for employment at the bachelor’s degree level).

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thanks @ucbalumnus

Nice points.
exactly, I think finally $$$ matters. I would want to save $$$ for med school.

For non-medical-school plans,

I will not stop with undergrad in BME.
If I go the BME route, I would like to do masters and Phd too.

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Have you run the net price calculators on all of the colleges’ web sites?

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ED significantly boosts your chances of admission. Without applying ED to any of your reaches, they are still far reaches as they are for mostly every applicant

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@ucbalumnus


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Have you run the net price calculators on all of the colleges' web sites?

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No I have not, I am planning to do that soon.

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@doorrealthe

I am afraid that ED might not give me the “expected” grants/scholarships.
If I get less grants, I don’t want to commit to the college.
End of the day, I want to save $$$ for my med school.