ACT: 33 Composite (35 E, 33 M, 34 R, 30 S)
Intended Major: Cognitive Psychology, Public Health, and/or Music
GPA: 4.65 weighted and probably 3.9-4.0 unweighed. My school recently abolished class rank this year, but I was most recently ranked 5th out of ~240 in a competitive class. I’m now “Summa Cum Laude.”
APUSH (3), AP Physics 1 (3), AP Lit (3), AP Calc (TBD), AP Lit (TBD Again), AP Psych (TBD)
Fr Year: H English (A-), H World Hst (A), H Bio (A), H Spanish 2 (A+), H Geometry (A), H Orch (A+)
Sop Year: H English (A), PreAPUSH (A), H Chem (A), H Spanish 3 (A+), H Alg II (A), H Orchestra (A+)
Jr Year: AP English (A-), APUSH (A), AP Physics 1 (A), AP Spanish 4 (A+), H Precalculus (A), H Orchestra (A+)
Sr Year: AP Comp Sci (A), AP Calc AB (A), AP Psych (A), AP English (B+), H Civics (A), H Orchestra (A+)
EC’s (keeping things vague for privacy reasons)
- Varsity Swimming & Diving 9-12 (Captain) -- made sectionals and states for diving during grades 10-12, regional champ diving 10-12, trained through AAU club program grades 5-9. Swam 200 medley and 200 free relays at states.
- Global Citizenship Program 9-12 (VP)
- Regional Young Democrats Chapter 10-12 (Event Coord.)
- Tr-M Music Honor, Spanish Honor, and National Honor Societies 11-12
- Celtic Strings Ensembles 9-12 -- perform Celtic and holiday repertoire throughout my community, and arrange music on Finale for my ensemble
- Regional Junior/Senior District Orchestra 7-12 (Principal)
- All-State Orchestra 10-11 -- missed this year's audition b/c of my We The People competition.
- All-Eastern Orchestra 12 -- selected for cello section out of 10 eastern states in the US.
- Local Community & Chamber Orchestras 7-12 (Principal)
- Cello Duo 10-12 -- won Gold at state music festival and received a perfect score twice
- Other/Summer Activities (Listed in Additional Info Section): Local biotech lab summer program, hospital healthcare explorers program, global citizenship program institute, bioengineering symposium, gastrointestinal and endoscopic surgery program, online global music exchange program, med-school summer camp, shadowed a Biology Ph.D. in endocrinology, clinical psychology & psychiatry research program. Also participated in an online virtual exchange and global music exchange for global citizenship.
Other Things
- Applied for financial aid (if that makes a difference)
- Wrote common app essay about my trampoline..
- LOR's from AP English teacher, Sophomore Year History/Swim Coach, and sent a peer rec from my friend. Everything was very seamless and they each backed up my entire application.
- Will be a first-gen college student, and one parent is unemployed (7 mo.)
- Have been accepted to Northeastern and UMass so far. Waiting on Brown and my other reaches