<p>Regular Decision
Intended School: College of Arts and Science
*Intended Major: Neural Science *
Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT/ACT: SAT 2080 (660 M 740 CR 680 W) - retaking! ACT 32
[</em>] SAT IIs: taking Literature in November; not submitting Biology M or Latin
[<em>] APs: will have taken Psych (5), Human Geography (5), Biology (4), Lang/Comp (4), Lit/Comp, Chemistry (3), Latin Vergil (3), US History (4), Calc AB/BC, Macro, Micro, Euro History
[</em>] GPA (UW): 3.83
[<em>] GPA (W):4.31
[</em>] Rank: 25/534
[<em>] Leadership Positions: Vice-President of HOSA (Health Occupations Students of America)
[</em>] Awards/Honors: National Merit Semifinalist, AP Scholar with Distinction, various academic awards at school, placed 5th in national HOSA competition
[<em>] Other Extra-curricular:
Scholar's Bowl (relatively successful team; may go to nationals this year),
Student Government (9-12),
NHS (11-12),
Latin Club (9-12).
[</em>]A good amount of community service (hospital volunteering, random community service)
[li]I also worked with a professor at the University of Tennessee this summer. We studied binding properties of enzyme-antibiotic complexes...</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Tennessee
[</em>] School Type: large public; on the Newsweek list for what it's worth ('09 Val at Yale, Sal at Duke)
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Female
[/ul]Other Statements:[ul]
[<em>] Why do you want to attend NYU? I want to experience an entirely different region- what better than to go to school in NYC?
[</em>] What other schools are you planning on applying to? Brown, Vandy, Duke, Middlebury, UT-Knoxville, Hampshire, Emory, Amherst
[li] Anything else? I just realized that I look completely ordinary when put in the form of bullet points! Anyway, I think that my essays will make me more three-dimensional. Teacher recs should be glowing, but no "best in career" stuff. Counselor rec will be positive but impersonal.[/li][/ul]</p>
(also applying to emory!)</p>