Ah, junior summer.
Bio:
-Citizenship: Dual - USA/Netherlands
-State of residence: California
-Class: Upper middle
-Race: South Asian/White/Middle Eastern
-Gender: Female
School:
-Type (Public/private & size): Private, 120 per class
-Graduates (How many go to Ivy’s/top 20): Uhhh… a lot? 15+
-AP’s Offered: None
Academic Profile:
-Unweighted GPA: 3.96
-Weighted GPA: N/A
-AP’s: N/A
-ACT: 36 (36 E 35 M 36 R 36 S) with a 12/12 essay
-SAT: Did not take. 1460 PSAT which should be National Merit commended
-SAT II: 750 Math II, 730 Lit, will take Physics, possibly Spanish, possibly retake Math II in August
-Rank: School does not rank, but I am at least top 9% as I qualify for ELC
-Course Rigor: Hardest possible
EC (In order of importance/commitment):
- Internship at UCSF neuroscience lab. Aid PhD student in her project while working on a project myself focused on the lab’s overarching question. 10 hrs/week during school year and 35 hrs/week during summer.
- Varsity tennis, 3 years by the time apps come around
- Volunteer at animal shelter on weekends
- Pollworker for general/state elections
Other Notables (College courses you’ve taken, papers published, created own website, TAing a class, ect):
- TA’d a woodshop class and a metal fabrication class
- I should be on a published paper sometime this fall, but I’m not sure if it will be in time for apps (has to do with neuroscience research; not my own paper, but I am a contributor)
- Idk if I will put this but I invest in the stock market and my current portfolio has returned 54% as of now (meaning it’s worth 154% of itself)
Honors:
- nike tennis camp coaches’ award
- should be national merit commended
- got most improved player for jv basketball but i doubt i’ll put this
-weakest part of the app. However, note that my school doesn’t offer anything like MUN, DECA, Debate, or any of those traditional clubs. Also we don’t give out academic awards, we don’t even have a valedictorian because of inequity or something.
Work:
- the internship/pollworking
Schools I’m looking at:
- Georgetown
- Harvard
- Yale
- Dartmouth
- Brown
- Johns Hopkins
- UCB
- UCLA
- maybe the Pomona-Pitzer series
- maybe UPenn/Stanford
- BU
- UW Seattle
- UCSD
- UC Davis
***The list is more or less in order of preference
Intended Major: Neuroscience
Intended Minor: Economics