Would an awesome essay help? I've got a lot of to say; in my junior year, I found out one of my girlfriends was raped, I learned about it while on a plane to my grandmother's funeral, and got death threats (pictures of guns, phone calls, her dad arrived at my house) because the family thought it was me (they caught the perp: it was her friend); she recovered from the emotional trauma and is doing great. There was, later, this amazing girl in my life that went through a demyelinating neuropathy a month into our relationship, where one day she was the prima ballerina and the next epileptic, where I had to hold her close to make sure that, in her postictic state (where she didn't recognize me, or what exactly a chair was, for that matter), she wouldn't come to harm. Fortunately the only memories she lost were small ones. The neuropathy affected her for three and a half months of our eight months, and I was by her side everyday except but the days she couldn't walk, where she would be in in bed and I would be in school, where I felt the same uselessness I had when, just months before, I was on the plane to California. Those three and a half short months left me realizing that if I, frankly, didn't work my ass off at school, I wouldn't go to college; and if I didn't go to college, then I would live knowing that I witnessed someone I loved deteriorate, and that my response was not to devote most hours of my day to help, but to sit down and give up.
I, understandably, chose and am choosing the former, and bootstrapped my schools biology club, became president of it, got a seat on the Inter-Club Council, maintain the best grade in AP Bio in the whole school, have an A+ in all science courses listed in the original post, in addition to taking 5 online courses (genetics, 2 on protein function, biochemistry, and immunology) on EdX with all A averages.
So those two girls made me understand that I wanted to help people. But, the summer before school started, I realized that life can easily be ended by a few mistakes and/or common stupidity. One week, I fell toward a fire face first (fortunately I caught it with my hand, and only suffered 2nd and few 3rd degree burns, in addition to a glove of gauze that begged to draw snide remarks more or less often containing the embarrassingly alliterative words, "Michelin, "man", and "mitten") while backpacking in Colorado; the next week, I was hiking alone, 6 miles into the woods, and stepped on a copperhead the size of a rather large toddler.
Would an essay condensing all these events and a conclusion stating what all they have taught, or rather, what they have made me, give me give me a better chance? Because these girls are outstanding; they are in the top 10% percent of their class and are presidents of clubs. They made me never want to give up, I want to do all I can with the time I’m given, and to work hard enough so that I can actually help. That, the last point, is extremely important to me. I have, from experience, come to the conclusion that there is nothing worse than not being able to help.
But aside from education, growing up in my family has taught me to be understanding, and to appreciate what I have. My mother and sister’s bipolar disorder, my adopted sister’s severe anxiety, and my brother’s autism, should not be taken as a sob story, but just a fact of my life, one that has helped me understand the issues and obstacles people face.
I’m going to add a few things:
FIRST Robotics Team and Robotics Club Member- R&D Lead (12) (8 hrs/week)
Biology Club President (12)
Green Club Member (9, 10, 11, 12)
Citizens Climate Lobby Member
3rd Place Science Olympiad Regional Medal in Biology (2014)-mentioned in the original post, was actually 3rd place
AP Scholar Award
AP+PLTW recognition
And 3 Teacher recommendations from Organic Chem, AP Bio, and Engineering teachers.
3 lead parts in my Ballet studio’s winter performance this year (21 hrs/week)
Financial Situation: ~$24,000/yr, with 5 dependents, two of them already in college.
Oh and I visited Tulane, have personally talked to counselors there, and connect with them on social media. Does that help? November 1 is the deadline for many colleges, so any help would be amazing.
Do CC’s do research?