u/IdeaHeavy7214

Premed Chance Me - T20s and BSMDs

Demographics:

  • Asian
  • Female
  • Large Public School in TX suburban city
  • Upper middle class income

Intended Majors: Biomedical Engineering, Biochemistry, Biology, Neuroscience (Still deciding)

Stats:

  • Rank: 3/813
  • GPA: 4.0 uw 6.94 w
  • SAT: 1540 - 760 R 780 M
  • ACT: 36 (36 reading, 36 writing, 35 Math)
  • 11 APs (CSP - 5, HGAP - 5, Spanish Lang - 5, CSA - 5, Calc BC - 5, Physics 1 - 5, WHAP - 5, Lang - 5, Stats - 5, Chem - 5, Bio - 5)
  • Taking AP Physics C, AP Lit next yr

Awards (Weakest Portion):

  • 15+ 1st - 3rd place awards in Bharatnatyam competitions
  • 3rd place @ nationals TSA Event
  • FTC finalists @ Area
  • FTC semi finalist @ Regionals
  • Top 5 in a video advocacy competition with over 5000 submissions

Extracurriculars:

  • First Author IEEE publication conference journal
  • Research with MIT Researcher mentor with publication
  • BWSI Medlytics
  • State officer, Area president, Chapter president for a major competition org (FBLA, DECA, TSA, etc.)
  • 400+ clinical hours as an intern at a local clinic serving underserved communities. Charted, visited nursing homes, ordered medications, labs, ran AWV visits, managed social media for the clinic, performed spirometry
  • Worked as app developer for ethnic community where I developed an app to manage hotel room and souvenir allo0cation for over 2000 guests
  • Founded first gene research club at my school and helped 2 students publish in a conference journal
  • Led a team of 6 in ALS research which we presented at a conference and were published in conference journal
  • Advocacy in Washington DC where I met with a Senator to promote fundraising for a health organization.
  • Raised 10,000+ dollars for the above organization
  • Raised 1000+ dollars to purchase menstrual hygiene products for women
  • Been doing Bharatnatyam for 11+ years and have appeared on international TV for competitions
  • 60+ volunteer hours creating podcasts and presentations informing the general public about advances in medical research
  • Lead programmer for FTC team
  • Outreach in rural community elementary school in India. Raised $2000+ to purchase Chromebooks for the school (previously had not technology access) and taught a 3 week free Scratch course for the 4th and 5th graders with a capstone project at the end.
  • 20+ hours shadowing general practitioner

Recommendation Letters: One from my Chemistry AP teacher who has gotten multiple students into MIT, recommendation from my MIT mentor who I did research with, and one from my Stats AP teacher who has gotten students into Harvard and UCs.

Essays: Working on them right now, I'm a decent writer and starting early so they should hopefully boost my application.

What are my chances at the following schools/programs (All are reaches but just wanted to see how achievable)

  • Brown PLME
  • Baylor BSMD
  • MIT
  • Yale
  • UPenn
  • Texas Tech UMSI
  • Stanford
  • Duke
  • Harvard
  • University of Michigan
  • Johns Hopkins
  • Rice

PS. Some of the stuff is pretty general in the post just so I'm not identifiable lol ;-; also feel free to be brutally honest.

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u/IdeaHeavy7214 — 9 days ago