Will Colleges Accept Me?...

Applying to College
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<p>African American Female
Pittsburgh, PA</p>

<p>My grades in high school have gotten better every year
Freshman year: 3 B’s
Sophomore year: 2 B’s
Junior year: All A’s
Weighted GPA: 4.0/4.0
Classes for Senior Year:
AP Bio, H English, Statistics [Then at a local community college]:Calculus, Psychology, English, Sociology</p>

<p>Scores:
SAT CR-600, W-670, M-760
AP’s:
US History-4
European History-4
Biology-Pending</p>

<p>Summer programs:
2005-JHops:study of biotechnology and bioethics (received college credit)
2006-MIT:study of engineering, lasted 6 weeks, very intensive/well-known</p>

<p>Most Significant Stuff:
WPIAL Champion for Team Golf (2006-2007)
WPIAL Section Champion-Golf (2005-’06, 2006-’07)
Future Problem Solving State Qualifier-(2005-2006)
President of Key Club (2006-2008)
Leaders of Tomorrow (2007)
Captain of Golf Team (2007-2008)
Student Council Senator (2006-2008)
Class Council Member (2006-2008)
Interact Club (2005-2006)
Future Problem Solving Head (2004-2005)</p>

<p>EC’s:
Golf (7 years)
Track(5 years)
Piano (11 years)
Internship at the University of Pittsburgh (shadowing Doug Weber who heads the research into Neuroprosthetics) (2007-2008)
Shadowing Chief of Plastic Surgery (Guy Stofman) at Mercy Hospital (2007-2008)
Carnegie Mellon Females in Engineering Day (2007)
North Texas Junior PGA Member (2004-2005)</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Key Club
“Toys for Tots”
Angel Tree
Pasta for Pennies
Assisting with mentally challenged at school (5-10 hours a week) <<for the past 2 years</p>

<p>Target Schools:
MIT
UPenn
Wash U of St. Louis
Johns Hopkins
Vanderbilt
Duke
Carnegie Mellon
Georgia Tech
Penn State: Univ Park</p>

<p>Feedback is appreciated!!! Thanks</p>

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<p>MIT, Hopkins, and UPenn are obviously the biggest reaches.</p>

<p>Vanderbilt needs to diversity and will probably take you. And being a female engineer will help at MIT.</p>

<p>But most of your schools are still pretty reachy.</p>

<p>Are you taking Calc senior year?</p>

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<p>^
Yes she’s taking calculus</p>

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<p>yes, I am at a local community college, with the summer program I did this past year, I’ve learned just about all of the Calc BC course</p>

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<p>Senior Course Load::
AP Biology
Adv English
Statistics
[Then at a local community college]
Calculus
Psychology
English
Sociology
Medical Law and Ethics</p>

<p>Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering, Biology</p>

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<p>Well, I think other than at MIT, you are in, especially at PSU. CMU might give you a headache if they are not enamored with your local high school.</p>

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<p>You might want to check with your high school gc but you may be able to attend a “better” college free. Most of the local colleges offer dual-enrollment programs for little/no cost to you. My kids have done it at Robert Morris, Pitt, Franciscan U of Steubenville (their courses cost $100 per course, not per credit). Better and more prestigious than CCAC</p>

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<p>I’m doing mine through butler CCC, and i’ve already paid, I wish i would’ve known about pitt/rmu before :-/ my GC didn’t tell me, very few people are active as seniors at my school…</p>