Personal:
- Asian female, current junior
- Income relatively well off (<200k+)
- Northern Virginia public magnet school, ranked #1 several times by Newsweek
- Prospective major: biomedical engineering/pre-dental
- Recs from AP chem and APUSH teachers
Academic:
-GPA: 4.15 W (school doesn’t calc UW, but I would say 3.8)
-ACT: 35 (36 Reading, 34 Science, 36 English, 35 Math, 9 Writing)
-SAT: 1500 (780 M, 720 R)
-Subject tests: Chem (800), Math 2 (800), Bio (770), US History (780)
-PSAT: 1490 (most likely National Merit Finalist)
-Rank: School does not rank, but I should be in top 25%
-AP:
Sophomore year: AP Biology (4), AP World History (5) (wasn’t taking class)
Junior Year (Predictions): APUSH (5), AP Calc AB (5), AP Chem (5)
-Senior year course load:
AP Gov, AP Lit, AP Calc BC, Geosystems, Organic Chemistry (Semester), Biotech Research, AP Stats (Semester), AP Psych
Extracurriculars:
- National Honor Society/French Honor Society
- Biology Society Vice President
- Lots of tutoring/volunteering with kids through various extracurriculars (100 hours)
- Hospital volunteering (50+ hours)
- Dental shadowing (20 hours)
- Young Democrats Secretary
- Biomedical Engineering internship at Georgetown University this summer
Awards:
- Not really any, some minor Model UN stuff
Hooks:
- none
I’m planning on applying to:
- UVA
- William and Mary
- Virginia Commonwealth University
- Northeastern
- Duke
- Harvard
- University of Southern California
- Vanderbilt
- UChicago
- UNC
- Case Western
Any more safeties/matches that offer really good merit scholarships or good pre-dental programs would be great suggestions!