Date Applied: Oct 20th (first school I applied to)
Unweighted GPA: 3.333
Weighted GPA: 4.381 / 5.0
UF GPA (If you calculated it): 4.0 (calculated awhile ago, can’t remember exact gpa)
SAT: 1300 (620-M, 680-R)
ACT: 30
State Of Residence: FL
Male / Female: Hispanic (Puerto Rican) Male
Summer or Fall: Summer
Class rank: top 24% (out of nearly 550)
AP’s:
9th: WHAP, APES
10th: Bio
11th: English Lang, Chem, Spanish Lit, Calc AB, APUSH and Physics 1
Extra Curriculars:
-100 volunteer hours
-Volunteer at a Rehabilitation Office with PT and OT and occasionally the pharmacists
-Spanish club all 4 years, Treasurer 11th and 12th
-Spanish Honor Society, inducted in 10th, Vice President in 12th
-FBLA 9th and 10th, Vice President 10th
-March of Dimes 10th, helped with march of dimes walk
-American Cancer Society, helped with Relay for Life Event
-High school varsity swim team all 4 years
-Club swimmer all-year round (afternoon AND morning practices (too much swimming!!))
**Not an EC but I worked at a rehab medicine doctor’s office the summer going into 12th
Senior Schedule: All APs (again). English Lit, Physics 2, Studio Art: 2-D (aka AP Photo), Psychology, Statistics, U.S. Gov and Microeconomics
Is UF your first choice? YES!!!
Other schools you applied for: FSU, UCF, UMiami, Auburn, Alabama, UT-Austin, UNC-Chapel Hill, and currently considering Vandy
Major/Field of Study: Biochemistry w/ Pre-med
Comments:
Essay: I wrote about the memory of Monica Puig winning Puerto Rico’s first gold medal in the Olympics while listening to my grandma, (she was in PR I was in the US) who believed she wouldn’t live long enough to see such an event and how I am motivated to succeed based on the constant calls from mi abuelita urging me to do my best and make her proud. I promise the essay sounds 3000x better than this awful summary.
**This essay was written before Irma and Maria hit P.R., and I fear that UF admissions will see my essay as trying to earn pity points and/or wooing them with my minority status.
Mother has college education in PR
Dad has college education from Iowa State and is unemployed.
We are upper middle class
I qualify for Bright Futures FAS
I know my test scores and gpa definitely aren’t the best, and I definitely don’t have a lot of volunteer hours and extra curriculars, but I’m hoping they’ll see that I at least challenged myself and got involved with EC. Also being a competitive swimmer and taking all AP classes is a lot of effort, so I hope UF takes it into consideration, but I doubt it.
Thank you!!