Thanks for looking! pretty stressed haha. Applying to most Texas schools, aiming for UT College of Natural Sciences (Biology) as a non-auto admit
Demographics: Indian/Black (Nigerian). No hooks, maybe URM? also both parents are green card immigrants
Academics: 3.43 UW/4.45 W, top 9% of the class, IB diploma candidate. UW GPA is messed up at my school, as my lowest grade was B-, with most of my grades centering around A- and A’s.
1510 SAT (780 M, 730 r/W). Taken August during COVID
IB/AP: 4 AP’s (3,4,4,3) (taking AP Econ later this year), IB Diploma candidate (IB Hindi- 4, rest of the exams ill take senior year), AP scholar and scholar with honor
EC’s:
Biology Club Founder (12)
Science Club Member (10-12)
Marching band of nationally ranked band
-Student leader for tuba section 11th grade
-Brass Captain 12th
-Won various competitions, placed 10th and 3rd on national competitions
Tuba
-First chair throughout playing career (7-12)
-TMEA region 4x
-TMEA Area 2x
-Won a local (north texas) solo competition out of 60 players across instruments
-UIL State Solo/Ensemble
Hindi Club, Co-president (10-12)
Quiz League, Captain (11-12)
MUN participant (11-12)
Community service
-Local Food Bank (272 hours, through 3 years)
-Public Library (96 hours, 1 year)
-North Texas Aquatic Conservatory
-Aims to organize efforts to manually clean local lakes in my area
-18 hours
-Founding Member
Work/Other stuff
Cardiology shadowing
-pretty proud of myself, cold-emailed cardiologists in my area, and got to work and shadow with a local one near me. Really helped my passion
- Body shop over the summer to help pay bills, should I include?
Essays/LOR
LOR:
-One from biology teacher, pretty good I think
-History teacher, known me throughout high school and seen me grow.
Essays: started 2 months ago and I will say they’re pretty good. I have a couple of people reading it (a former AO, a yale attendee, and some really talented writing friends and teachers). I won’t be as stubborn to say 9/10, but it’s def above a 7/10 to a high 8/10.
Thank you for reading! again, UT for biology as a non-auto admit