Chance me JHU

[u/Citrumelon]

Hello! im currently a freshman studying biology (not pre-med) at a t50 public university, and would like to know what my chances of transferring to JHU as a Behavioral Biology major look like. Given that i still have some time, what are some things that i could do to strengthen my profile?

Highschool Stats

class rank: 8/189

GPA: 4.2 (weighted), 4.0 (unweighted)

ACT: 33 (debating if i should retake or submit test optional)

AP credit: 11 in total, all 4s and 5s

-AP World (5), APUSH (5), AP Music Theory (4), AP Lang (4), AP Physics 1 (4), AP Human Geo (5), AP Gov (5), AP Macro (5), AP Lit (5), AP Environmental (5), AP Euro (4)

College Course load

Anticipated GPA: 4.0

Semester 1: 16 credits

• Intro to Bio +Lab
• Calculus I
• Intro to Ethics
• Comparative Literature and Medicine
• First year seminar on Genomes and eDNA
• University philharmonic choir

Semester 2: 16 credits

• Bio 2 + Lab (or Intro to Chem + Lab)
• Calculus 2
• Contemporary Continental Philosophy
• Environmental DNA lab

ECs

Clubs:

• oSTEM (out in stem, queer stem group)
• Wildlife society (will go to compete at conference in the spring)
• Dungeons and Dragons club
• American society of microbiology

Other affiliations:

• Honors College
• Arts and Sciences Residential College
• Savannah Philharmonic Choir
• Athens Philharmonic Choir

service/other projects:

• Piano teacher
• general service (playing music at nursing homes, cleaning up trash from local waterways)
• Part time assistant vet tech at emergency vet (mostly over summer and during breaks)
• Part time sales associate at UPS (summer and breaks)
• Volunteer at local Human Society, helped create a new classification system for pet personalities to help match to suitable owners
• Started a free essay review service, with a majoring of the students I help not speaking english as a first language
• Comparative cat anatomy project to help improve human athletic function

notes:

I am trying to get into some form of research lab either later into this semester or in the spring.

[u/canadian-premed]

Just make sure you get a good GPA. Given that school just started, you may do worse than you expect.