<p>Alright. So let's get started with the stats.</p>
<p>SAT I: 680/680/790 (11e)--hope to retake once or twice.
AP's taken: AP Bio 5 AP Euro 5
AP's currently taking (Junior):AP Chem, AP American History, AP French, AP English Lang and Comp, will take AP Spanish Language and AP Spanish Lit, self studied, as well....I expect mostly 5's.
AP's will take, Senior year: AP Studio Art (Photo), AP Physics, AP Calc AB, AP English Lit, AP Gov and Econ.</p>
<p>GPA Unweighted:3.9
GPA Weighted: 4.71~</p>
<p>Equally Fluent in French, English, and Spanish.</p>
<p>EC's: French Club-3yrs, (expect president senior year.) 2 yrs National French Honor Society- (expect VP next year.) 3 yrs Science Honor Society- (expect VP or treasurer next year.) 2 years Future Medical Professionals Club (Chairman of correspondence junior year, expect Pres next) 4 years English Honor Society (Expect treasurer next year) 2 yrs National Honor Society, (expect treasurer, or corresponding chairman next year?)</p>
<p>Volunteering: Founder and President of a non-profit organization that establishes basic preventive health structures in third-world towns and villages. Going to Haiti this Spring =).
100 hrs with DOCS program of University of Miami
200 hrs with a clinic in Little Haiti
about 80 hrs miscellaneous things
75 hrs with Miami-Dade county</p>
<p>Work/ Job experience: I teach Colombian Salsa. During the summer, I play with a Colombian Salsa group in Colombia, private and public events. Drum maker (congas, bongas, timbales... I know XD ) 6 summers working with CAR, a division of the Colombian Government that specializes in ecological decay and its social implications, first three were with my uncle. Tutoring.</p>
<p>Research: This summer, I will participate in Ovarian Cancer Research at Yale, and a side research with a GI doctor at Yale, also. I am also looking forward to participating in continuous research with a OB/GYN at the University of Miami. </p>
<p>Major awards: None =(...unless I qualify for some this year</p>
<pre><code> I have heard from my teachers that I am a great essayist; however, I cannot really attest to this because it would be highly shallow and presumptuous of myself to do so. Let's say, I think I'll do well?
On another note that I cannot really categorize: I was born into a very, very poor Colombian family. My mother, Colombian by birth, grew up in the US (undergrad major in Bio at UM,) decided to study medicine in Colombia in order to get a better feel for emergency, social, and "raw" medicine, met my father at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia , and I was conceived =). I lived with my extended family, due to economic challenges and custom, I studied there until I was 4, I continue to visit them each summer, and they have shaped my ideas and views.
At the age of 4, I immigrated into the US with my mother, I learned English and adapted (to a dual extent) to the culture. I was fatherless for a few years, and we lived in a small room. My father was then able to come to the US, and he profited from the boom in the South Florida property market, which allowed us to live in a rich community. I was abandoned by my mother for a year, time that she used to pass her USMLE tests, we then reconnected, and she completed internal medicine. She is now a Pulmonary Critical Care Fellow.
My family's economic status had been luxurious for a few years, now the prospects for the future seem stark, since my father is a doctor, who cannot exercise his career here, rendering him nearly unemployed. (Sorry, let me clear this up now before a misconception is cemented: my parents are divorced.) My mother relies on low earnings until she completes her fellowship. (In a nutshell!)
I love Philosophy, I believe American medicine needs a change of perspective in the way the patient is viewed, I am a photographer, I am a thinker, I am an artist.
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<p>Thank You, and please chance me critically. Be as harsh, as objective, as critical, as optimistic, as realistic, as you may feel necessary =).</p>
<p>Comments, advice, speculations are warmly accepted.</p>
<p>Cordially, </p>
<p>G.N.</p>