<p>Hi, applying to Emory Early Decision... I'm going to be a Senior in Oct.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.8/4.0 scale (unweighted) Junior Year, same for Fresh and Soph.
Courses: Half-most rigorous. My school is a competitive "progressive" private school, and they don't offer many APs, nor do they rank. I've taken all the ones possible except AP Spanish and Comp Science, and almost all the "Accelerated" courses I can. I also came to the school from a really really bad public middle school, so there were major adjustments I had to make...</p>
<p>Relevant Junior Year:
Acc World History
Acc Math-2, (what they call it)
Spanish elective
Chemistry</p>
<p>(...I know I didn't take the more rigorous course load possible, but I have awesome relationships with my teachers and know they will write me stellar recs.)</p>
<p>Relevant Senior Year: I've upped my load to the max
AP European History
AP Calculus
Acc Spanish elective
Acc Physics w/ Calculus</p>
<p>SAT: (plan to take again in Nov) -- which brings me to another question. If I take my subject tests in Oct and SAT again in November (2nd time) is it too late to do EDI, if so, I'll go EDII. I'm going to actually study hard for the next time--I really think I can bring up everything to 700-range.
Math: 650
Reading: 650
Writing: 720</p>
<p>SATII (October)
Math I, maybe II (is it better to score really well on the Math I or not as well and take Math II?)
Biology M
Reading</p>
<p>AP tests taken this year: even though I couldn't take the classes...
AP Eng Lang: 5
AP Eng Lit: 4</p>
<p>AP next year, but it'll be too late for admission:
AP Calc BC
AP Physics</p>
<p>Activities:
<em>Columbia Scholastic Press Gold Medalist School Newspaper:
Editor-In-Chief
(It's a really good paper, so this takes up so much of my time, and will be a lot more next year...part of the reason I held back with my courses)
*Model UN 2005-graduate
*Mentoring program for Lower School students in "Life Skills"
*</em>Experience:
-I've worked in at the Center for Vaccine Development at the University of MD since summer of my freshman year. I started just helping out anywhere, retrieving samples from the freezer, but worked my way into the lab, where I really wanted to be...I work in the lab as a technician and am currently working on a major study. I'm very interested in research, on Salmonella (Typhoid fever) in particular. This summer my work sent me to Mali (Africa) to train lab workers in a new technique for diagnosing Salmonella serovars in developing countries. I'm also working on a study here. (Sorry if I rambled, I do that when I talk about this stuff...)
-Last summer I was accepted to the Biomedical Research Program at UPenn. Took classes, attended lectures, worked in the lab.</p>
<p>As you can see I'm interested in Biology, but want to do Undecided because I'm not sure what I want to do. Also, I'm worried it would be harder to get in if I declare Bio, right?</p>
<p>Schools that I think are reach, but loved, that my counselor also recommended:
Tufts
WashU</p>
<p>But I am in love with Emory.</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>