Currently a junior at ~ top 10 private schools in the country (best in my state). My GPA might seem like it’s a bit on the low side, but I think the fact that I go to one of the most academically challenging high schools in the US will offset that. I’m most likely going to ED to Duke, which is a high reach for most everybody, so I don’t have my hopes up. Other schools I am looking at are Cornell, UCLA, USC, UPenn, Johns Hopkins, and Rice. Obviously all these schools are highly selective, so I’m really not expecting anything.
Objective:
UW GPA: 3.89
W GPA: 4.17 (4.23 is the average accepted GPA for Duke based on my school’s naviance)
Class rank: N/A, school doesn’t rank
SAT: N/A
ACT: 35 C, 10 W (36 superscore)
SAT II: 800 Bio (M), 790 Math II, 790 Physics, 780 Chem
AP tests: AP Spanish Lang (5), AP Physics 1 (4), AP Biology (5), AP Lang (5) <-- haven’t received my scores yet, but I feel I did pretty well on these.
Senior year schedule: AP Econ, AP Chem, AP English Lit, AP Calculus AB, APUSH, honors journalism
Awards:
-National Spanish Exam Gold 9, 10, Silver 11.
- TEAMS (STEM competition) 1st place in 9/10 division, 2nd place in 11/12 division in Texas.
- Silver presidential volunteering award (175 community service hours) 10, 11
- National spanish honors society 10, 11, 12
- High Honors 9, 10; Honors 11
- Varsity letter for golf
Subjective:
Leadership positions:
- McDonald's Week Events Chair (junior class event that raised over $10,000 for homeless shelter)
- iGEM Fundamental Research Director 11, Co-Captain 12 (bio-technology research team that competes in science competiton)
- Biology section editor of school science journal 11; managing editor 12
- Biology Club president
- Research Director for School Newspaper 12: One of the best school newspapers in the country (paper won Columbia Scholastic Press Association (CSPA) Gold Crown: 9, 10 -> Highest recognition a newspaper can receive from the CSPA and Pacemaker Award (NSPA): 10 -> Highest award given by the National Scholastic Press Association for school publication)
- Chess Volunteering Program Leadership Board: 10, 11, 12
- Chess tutoring outreach program co-chair: 12
Extracurriculars:
JV Golf Team 10, Varsity 11 (lettered junior year)
Volunteer trainer and shift manager (150 hours) at a local hospital: 9, 10, 11
Volunteer at daycare for disabled children (150 hours): 9, 10, 11
Chess Coach for three local elementary schools: 10, 11, 12 (I am the director of program this year)
I have a bit less than 500 community service hours from my freshman, sophomore, and junior years combined
Founded math and science tutoring program at local elementary school: 11
Lion and Sword (basically NHS for private schools): 12
Summer:
Will be doing research this summer at a brain health institute at a local university (looking into Regeneron and Siemens STS)
Shadowed local cardiologist: sophomore summer and planning to continue this summer
Unpaid Internship at local medical practice (worked as a scribe and compiled patient data on online database): sophomore summer and hopefully this summer (if I have time)
Journalism workshops: freshman, sophomore, and junior summers
Helped run a summer science tutoring program for elementary school students by showing them chemistry, biology, and physics experiments (making ice cream, etc.): Summer of 2017
Volunteered at hospital
Letters of Rec:
One from physics teacher and advisor (got a B+ in his class, but I got to know him really well over the year and I think he liked me): 9/10
One from AP Lang teacher (kind of knew me, but not that well): 7.5/10
College counselor (only 90 people in my grade and he knows everybody by name and the activities they do. Very personal): 9.5/10
Supplemental from research mentor this summer (haven’t started, so I don’t know what quality it will be): N/A