hi guys! any guidance would be appreciated. also for suggestions for more schools to apply please lmk or if i should take schools out. thanks in advance. ALSO PLEASE TELL ME IF IM SHOOTING TOO HIGH bc i genuinely don’t know.
Demographics: Female, Asian, top NJ Private school, legacy at Dartmouth (family has also been an active donor from the time parent graduated)
Intended Major(s): Public Health, Sociology, (possibly Bio)
ACT/SAT/SAT II: 1470 (770 M, 700 EBRW) - planning on taking again in August, hoping to superscore for at least 1500. have not taken subject tests yet (If I do take, I’ll take Bio)
UW/W GPA and Rank: school does not calculate GPAs, but I self calculated and it’s 3.8 WEIGHTED, 3.63 UNWEIGHTED, UC GPA is a 3.95
i think it is kinda rare to get a solid 4.0 at our school since all the classes r pretty hard but im sure there are a few ppl with it. if anyone needs naviance data for any schools i can provide it since it might make things easier. this is definitely my weakest point and is probably a little inflated due to COVID grades.
Coursework: School only allows you to take APs starting junior year, so I took AP Bio, AP Human Geo, AP Latin this year-- haven’t gotten scores yet
Senior Year Courses: AP Calc AB, AP Stats, Honors Physics, English, Philosophy
Awards: nothing special, Presidential Volunteer Service Award, Girl Scout Silver, Girl Scout Gold will be done by end of summer, National Latin Exam silver medal x2, speaker on Bioethics at TEDx conference
Extracurriculars: summer stuff and in school
- Bioethics Discussion Club- Founder and President since frosh year, lead weekly discussions on bioethical topics in the news
- Bioethics Magazine at Columbia- intern with editing during the school year since beginning of junior yr
- Girl Scouts: state board delegate (frosh year-present), getting gold award, various badges and journey projects completed with troop
- Newspaper: Section Editor for school newspaper (current), associate (sophomore yr), writer (frosh year)
- Piano: been playing 12 years, Performed 2x at Lincoln Center NYC, Performed 1x at Carnegie Hall, Certified by completing levels 1-8 of Associated Board of Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM exams), perform at small charity concerts
- SSEP at Smith College after frosh year, bioethics and genetics courses
- Upenn Biostatistics and Epidemiology research paid intern, helped out with projects, last summer and current summer
- NYU Public Health Research internship this summer- getting paper published soon woohoo!!
- Dartmouth biostatistics + population studies research internship this summer
- Community Service Elected Representative for c/o 2021 at my school-- elected for 3 consecutive years, should become cohead of program next year
- Fencing Women's Sabre Captain-- school Varsity team all 4 years, team ranked top 50 pool at state tournament
Essays/LORs/Other: Honestly struggling a bit on the essay front. Not sure what I’m writing about yet. LORs: One from AP Bio teacher, worked very hard in her class with her and to improve my grade, other from English teacher, should be good, nothing too special, but will have her again in the fall. Counselor rec: nothing special, should be decent. also planning on getting recommendation from my UPenn Professor who I interned under for the past 2 years as well as NYU professor and Dartmouth professor (still deciding which I’m going to send)
Schools: Dartmouth (ED since i love the school sm plus legacy might help a tad), NYU (either Steinhardt or CAS, maybe ED2), Northeastern (EA), Umich (EA), UCLA, UCBerkeley, Tufts (Maybe ED2), UNC Chapel Hill, UVA, Cornell (College of Human Ecology), Boston Uni, USC, Boston College, Wake Forest, UPitt, UMiami