I am so excited to say I have been accepted! Congrats to those who were also accepted and to those who have been deferred I wish you all the best.
Decision: Accepted for Biomedical engineering OOS female of indian descent
Objective:
•Old SAT I: N/A
•New SAT I: 1570 (800W/R + 770 M) single sitting
•ACT: Composite- 34 (E: 36, M: 33, R: 34 S:33) Single Sitting
•SAT II: N/A
•Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
•Weighted GPA (out of 4): N/A my school does not weight
•Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): First in my class with pending valedictorian status
•AP (place score in parentheses): Biology (5), BC Calc (5), AP Lit (4)
*school does let us take APs until junior year, thus the relative lack of APs; only 2 I didn’t take were AP Physics and Spanish because my school only offers AP Physics 1, but I did take the honors physics class which is more useful and just as hard
•Senior Year Course Load: AP Lang, AP Chemistry, AP Psych, AP Stats, Physics at my community college
•Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/ Distinction, random local awards
National Merit Commended Scholar
Subjective:
•Extracurriculars :
-Dance Team Captain and solist- we have won 7th, 4th, and 2nd in the state in my time as captain, received rising star award
-Co-Founder and VP of the American Red Cross club, new club at my school in junior year
-Freshman advisor from 10th through 12th grades
- Volunteer at red cross blood bank for all years of high school (300+ hours)
-Volunteer with Juvenille diabetes research foundation, team captain of my sister’s one walk team and raised thousands of dollars in her name for Type 1 Diabetes research - Volunteer in pediatric diabetes resource foundation in children’s hospital (50 hours)
- WYSE Varsity team (3rd place in biology)
- Head of the writing center at my school ( center for essay editing and help)
- Hair and makeup committee head for school drama department ( 3 musicals and two plays)
- others I am forgetting
•Summer Activities: senior year- Research internship at local university on industrial engineering in the field of data mining applied to biomedical. Made an algorithm to sort health-data on many patients at once, paper published thanks to how the efficiency of my algorithm is two times the efficiency of the basic one existing. (250 hours)
- Northwestern university seminar in biotechnology
- University of Illinois electrical engineering camp
- dance camp, award winning all american dancer
•Common App Essay: 10/10 - really loved this one.
- tech essays 9/10, could have been more specific to tech but my writing was creative
•Teacher Recommendations:
10/10 from English teacher, and also the captain for my dance team. Always praised my writing for its “voice” and “style” and praised me as a student in general. Very close to her personally since she is also my coach/ Undoubtedly an amazing rec.
9/10 from AP Calc teacher. Great writer who took time to write a nice letter. Liked me but don;t know as well as the first one.
5/10 from guidance counselor: assuming she used the same cut and paste format lol
Other
•State: Illinois
•Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): My efforts to help cure type 1 diabetes with both my research and other extra curriculars, brought in my own sister’s personal diagnosis to show raw emotion.
Good luck to all! Feel free to ask any questions