Chance Me: Duke, Princeton, Stanford, UF, U Chicago, UCLA,

Hello, I am very new to this so here goes. I am in no way as qualified as some of you superstars, but I try to do my best with what I have been given in life. My personal stuff is very short bc the internet is wild. Not the best grammar or English, whoops.

GPA: unweighted: 3.8 ( it was a 4.0 until my AP Euro teacher obliterated my whole class’s GPA) weighted: 5.1/6.0 OR 4.3/4.5

Class Ranking: Currently top 10% (19/536) my school’s magnet program is relatively competitive, it’s also recently became a urban school rather than a inner city school. (An A school for two years)
I take a lot of AP’s, but not AP Calc bc I will die - is AP stats ok for pre-med ? (With AP bio, chem and psych)

SAT: Honestly, I am a junior right now so - I hope/ prepped for a solid 1400. I have horrendous test anexiety when it comes to math because I am very slow to comprehend it. :frowning: this is my worst portion of my app. It does not reflect my academic aptitude- but how can I prove that to admissions officers?

SAT Subject Test(s):
Junior Year: US history (love)
and Math 2 (just taking it to see if it is decent enough to supplement my B’s in pre-calc rn)
Senior Year: Dec (Biology ?? Which one )
Not quite sure what else atm

EC:
Sports:
Varsity HS Volleyball Team - 3 year starting middle
National Travel Volleyball Team - 3 years
Clubs:
NHS VP (hoping to be Prez senior year)
Philosophy Club - cofounder and President
Activities/Awards:
Varsity Debate - 3 years (currently nationally ranked in PF top 175/10,000)
I have won The Blue Key UF tournament twice in my old event - policy and placed at multiple national tournaments in my new event PF (peep my nat rank :))
Internship/Shadow-ship:
Took me months to earn this at my local hospital. I have a really stellar relationship with my mentor who happens to be the chief of neurosurgery at the 6th largest hospital in the country. I have been learning about the intricacies of medicine and know the in’s and out’s of an OR. (We are also besties btw.) there is also and scholarship that I can only apply to senior year.
Volunteer Work:
Over 500 hours through being vice president of NHS and volunteering all summer at the hospital. (There is a Princeton Club Service award that they give out for this specific hospital or vet volunteering - and I hope to get it at the end of this year $ $

Recommendation Letters:
Up in the air teacher wise, (many of my teachers either over-compliment me or tease me) but I am going to heavily rely on my rec letter from my mentor, who I have rounded and observed in surgeries for a year now. And maybe my volleyball coach, she also roasts me frequently - so

Other Factors:
Socio-Economic:
I grew up with a single dad, I plan to write my personal common app essay on how this shaped my feminity growing up. (My dad makes decent money but with taxes and dependents added my dad technically only makes 60,000 a year soo)
My mom’s on again, off again parenting.
My immigrant columbian godmother half raised me till I was 11.
My granny has Alzheimer’s.
My family is riddled with drug abuse problems.
I don’t want to be a sob story, but these aspects of my life give me a unique perspective into life - how do I convey this w/o rubbing admin officers the wrong way?
Race:
I am Indian (yes, from the subcontinent - not Native American). However, I am very racially ambiguous because my mom is white. Everyone assumes that I am Hispanic because if you are brown in my state you are either latinx or Hispanic. It’s unique to my region and I may expand upon that in a supplementary essay.

Religion:
Pastaferian (this is mostly a meme)

Other notes:
As a Indian daughter, I low-key have to be a doctor - but I actually have the desire to pursue medicine. I intend on being a femal neurosurgeon (very rare statistically) with a fellowship/specialty in pediatrics, hence the internship. People say that I am very motivated, driven and intelligent- but I feel like I pale in comparison to other applicants. I am just trying my best, and idk if that is enough. Chance me and let me know.

Thanks :))) only helpful tips and constructive criticism- pls don’t roast me, junior year has already wrecked me and my GPA is about to drop :///

yo you seem like a humble and honest person with a good sense of humor and that will probably come across in your essays. only real problems you have, one of which you cant help, is your ethnicity (which is kinda bs but unfortunately Indians get held to ridiculously high standards) and your test score. get it to a 1450+ which even then is a little low, but do some khan academy stuff and that’ll raise it for you.

Really? Okay, I am only a quarter Indian, so I could opt out from specifiying that. I have a part time job at at SAT tutoring place, so I could stay there for more help too! Thanks :slight_smile: