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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]welcome to the world of selective college admissions. It is no longer how it was in your late Victorian, early Edwardian world. [/quote]

My Victorian parents didn't attend college or high school, nor find me programs, internships, and awards.

The "regional awards" and "competitive summer program" sound like awards for receiving awards.  They don't provide incremental information.  It reminds me of National Honor Society, which just measures grade point average.

[quote=Anonymous]of course a student interested in medicine would apply for BME to a place like JHU [/quote]

Maybe.  But in that case, she has no sincere interest in science or engineering.  Is she Florence Nightingale, or Jonas Salk?  A true scientist-at-heart would stay in the lab tinkering with experiments.  A true healer would skip the lab to help more patients.  This girl's resume seems to strategically check boxes.  If so, then she might be better off at a small place like William and Mary, free to find her calling.

Interestingly, Johns Hopkins has had a lot of racial variation in admissions.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/johns-hopkins-follows-mit-on-race-quotas/[/quote]

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