<p>Hey, this is my first post but i've been lurking on this site for over a year now. College is getting closer and closer so im starting to wonder if ive been doing what i should be doing. I'm currently a Junior in the NY Met. area and i was wondering if you guys could let me know how my stats are looking so far. Thanks in advance. My top two choices at the moment are Columbia and Cornell. </p>
<p>**This is all information from freshmen, sophomore, and 5 weeks of junior year
Backround:
White Upper-middle class American,
Parents are both immigrants from Eastern Europe, as a result I'm Bilingual and also studying French in school.
-One of my parents is part of the senior research staff at the Columbia medical center, finish up a Ph.D in biology, do you think this would have any influence on undergrad admission?</p>
<p>Academics:</p>
<p>GPA: 97/100...our school does percentages and i dont have the slight clue what it would be on a 4.0 scale
Rank: N/A
SAT: First one in March, looking for 2200+
SAT II: 740 Biology M
APs: Biology 5 , currently taking Lit, Physics, and US History
Classes: All Honors, AP, and college level </p>
<p>Athletics:
Junior Varsity Soccer (Freshman)</p>
<p>Varsity Track (Freshman, Sophomore) -
-County Class AA 4x800M 1st Place (Sophomore)
-County Class AA 4x400M 2nd Place (Sophomore)
-Depending on how my performance progresses this year, i'll be looking into running for a college/university. I'm also hopingto add some individual county titles to that list, maybe some state ones too, god willing lol.
Varsity Cross-country(Sophomore,Junior) -
-Season is ending now, truth be told im "average" at XC, still on Varsity Squad but i dont consider myself that good, im a shorter distance guy.</p>
<p>Varsity Winter Track(Sophmore,<em>Junior</em>)</p>
<p>Boys Division 3 LIJSL U19 Travel Soccer- Its kind of odd, our U16 team was bumped to U19.</p>
<p>Clubs/EC's:</p>
<p>President of French Club (Sophmore, Junior)-
Organized fundraiser for Haiti relief effort last year. Had a "learning night" for elementary students to learn things about french speaking countries around the world. Was recently re-elected for this year.</p>
<p>Band Manager of Band Council (This year)- Havent really done anything yet, but really ill just be helping with paperwork and organizing band events.</p>
<p>Mathletes(Freshman,Sophomore,Junior year)</p>
<p>Model Congress (Sophomore, Junior year)</p>
<p>High School Concert and Symphonic Bands (last year we travel to and played in Spain)</p>
<p>Summer Work:</p>
<p>-Having a job during school is impossible because of practice everyday and coursework.</p>
<p>Summer Entering Freshman Year - Internship @ CUMC (Columbia's Medical Center) Research Lab
Summer Entering Sophomore Year - Same Internship, learned alot more.</p>
<p>Summer Entering Junior Year - Internship @ NYU, wrote program that takes MRI and MRS scans, arranges them into 3d arrays, and performs several computations on them. From what ive heard, the program has been taken by other programmers in the lab and is being actively built upon and applied to research, i may be cited in some papers for it, hopefully.</p>
<pre><code> - Also shadowed a CUMC Oncologist in Clinic, and a Resident
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<p>Urology Surgeon. This was quite amazing, standing right with the surgeons in the OR, fully garbed of course for the patients protection :)</p>
<p>Hobbies/Other:
- I'm an avid skier, i love it but im not sure how it would help me for college.
- VFX/Video Editing, been paid for some of my work, most recently a college sports highlight reel.</p>
<p>Thanks again</p>