What will it ultimately take to get in?

Couster101
Fri, 09 Oct 2015 07:01:40 +0000

Hello guys! Im currently a freshman in High school. I have always aspired to be the best, the best in my grade in academics and everything im passionate about. I got to a very competitive, top high school. Everyone is a grade ahead of the whole state. I want to be in the medical profession just like my father has, except, I want to go to a very prestigious medical school, like John Hopkins or UPenn. Here’s my current statistics for freshman year and my possible game plan for high school:

Classes 9th grade:
Concert Orchestra
Pre Calculus
Chemistry
Foundations of World HIstory
Freshman English
Chinese 1

Will a rigorous coarse load help somewhat of my chances of being accepted?

For those of you who got accepted, what did you do? How many Ap’s/ other college credit courses did you take? What extra curriculars did you do? I see in the forumns that tons of people are literally inhuman, having to start about 2 clubs, leader in this and that, etc etc its so daunting. For those of you who got accepted, did you dedicated great to few things or moderately to a lot of things? What kind of volunteer work did you do? I’m taking Pre Calc in Freshman year, AP Calc AB in Sophomore year, Advanced Calc in junior year and Differential Equations in Senior year. Does Differential Equations/Advanced Calc count as a college course for credit? Please enlighten me! I am the most ambitious freshman you will every find in the United States of America!

Other stuff:
Pretty strong cello player in one of the nations best high school orchestra programs
Thinking of doing Speech and Debate
Varsity team in Science Competition Club
JV XC in Freshman Year(Varsity most likely in sophomore year)
UNICEF(Hopefully become president)

This is my main force of extracurriculars so far, should i switch between years or should i dedicate fully to these?