<p>I am a hispanic male from Texas, and desperately wish to leave my home state for my college years. I am a top student GPA wise, with a 4.0 UW and a 4.75W. I haven’t taken the SAT or ACT yet. My ECs are strong, with Academy soccer, writing awards, and a lot of medical based volunteering, to be brief. My school isn’t the most competitive, so I am expecting a top class rank. I am totally unsure about where I will stand in the admissions process, and want to hear some opinions about what is needed to get into a school with a sub 20% acceptance rate. At the moment, I am interested in JHU, Northwestern, Dartmouth, and Harvey Mudd for reach schools but have only come up with Wisconsin Madison for a safety, so if anyone knows of any schools that have good pre med programs, are not in Texas,and have relatively high acceptance rates, speak up! . As you can tell, I want to get on the Pre Med track. If anyone could give me an honest review, it would be appreciated 
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<p>I believe you’ll be fine, thanks to your hard work that has resulted in an excellent GPA/class-rank. Many elite LACs and National Research Universities really focus on students being challenged by their secondary school’s most academically rigorous course. HOWEVER, they understand that you obviously cannot take courses that aren’t offered. Please take the most demanding curriculum you can, continue to work hard and to excel, and I suspect you’ll be in good shape. </p>
<p>Hear is a tip, with your statistics you obviously fit in the range with your GPA to get in your reach schools. Not to put pressure on you, but the bitter reality is you must do well on your test scores. These reach schools you are thinking of have strong company partnerships with these testing companies, hence that is part of how they make their money and rankings. If you are thinking of being on the PreMed track at these schools, its super competitive. They will first decide based on your GPA, then your test scores, and the smallest part that can be a tiebreaker the essay and recommendations. For these reach schools they will weed out the kids who are applying just because they want the title vs those who need to be there, in most cases because they see a cause that has effected their lives and they want to take part in solving the problem for that cause. I suggest for your essay, tell them what made you decide on volunteering at that hospital if your interested in their Premed track. So in conclusion, you have the GPA to get in (which by the way your UW GPA is based on a 4.0 scale, which it should be a 3.75 not a 4.0), you need to do well on the tests, and express humility towards the admissions team. Good luck!</p>