<p>Your GPA and your ACT are excellent. You can’t beat a 4.0 and 33, especially since the 33 is above the 50% range. Here is the only problem and you addressed it is the EC’s, awards, and lack of leadership. You may have awards you just didn’t list and this is the thing to stress out about the least, but if you have received anything over the years that may seem insignificant, include it! It would look great on the application and add more to you. The thing that I’m mainly concerned about is the EC’s. Here is the problem, i was surprised when I saw that you wanted to be a Biology major and the only reason as to why is because of the fact that the EC’s didn’t really reflect that passion, and that may not be your fault, it may have been to a lack of programs at your school that had science themes in it, but right now, don’t stress about this and there is a clear and concise way to fix this, recs or essay. Now I now that you said that you would write a very personal and emotional essay, which is fantastic and I love personal essays that you can really get a sense of who the person is and why they do what they do but just a fair warning, do not make your essay’s almost like a pity party. I cannot tell you how many times I’ve read admission essays and they all reflected a sob story in which instead of addressing how they rose out of their despair or their unfortunate circumstance, it ended with a tone of dread and depression, and it is very unappealing. The admission officers look at that and don’t feel sorry for the applicant, which is what was intended, instead they roll their eyes and put it within the discard pile. Don’t make admission officers feel bad for you, make them in awe of you, how you were able to rise among the crap that surrounded you and make something of yourself. Now back to what I was saying earlier, if you have an extra essay, write it on your passion of biology, if not, don’t worry, have your science teacher write a letter of rec for you. Now make sure that the science teacher DOES know you, it cannot be generic. If you don’t have a close relationship with the teacher, start one, sit her down at the beginning of this year and tell her about your passion, stay after class and do extra experiments, COLLABORATE WITH HER! Another thing that is important is the counselor recommendation. “dramatic theme music” This is highly important no matter what people say, this is a huge, and I mean HUGE determining factor if you get in. I stress this in every chance reply that I post and it is to make sure that your counselor knows you! She/He cannot write a generic letter of recommendation because the admission officers can see right through it and many applications go out the window because of it. If you don’t have a relationship with your counselor where the counselor can talk for four hours about how freaking fantastic you are, then create one. This can be done by just going into your counselor’s office every three weeks, yup I said it, not every month, but three weeks, talk about your aspirations, about how much you want to get into this school, passion for biology, or emotional problems that are going on. Soon enough you don’t even have to worry about the counselor rec. Also I hope your AP scores were well done, and if you are worried about the ACT score, I suggest Barron’s 36, will bump that score to a 36 in about two to three months. Good luck! Overall, I think you have a fantastic chance, no matter how much advice I gave (sorry about that), but this will just give you more of a boost and some heftier financial aid packages. Keep moving forward and hope your admission process is successful!</p>
your gpa is really good and so is your act so I think you will be accepted 
You look like a total match (especially since you’re in-state!)</p>