Hi, first time poster I’m sorry if I do it wrong
I’m planning on applying to:
Universty of Maryland - College Park
University of Maryland - Baltimore County
UC - Berkeley
MIT
Johns Hopkins
Tufts
Northwestern
Georgia Tech
Duke
I want to major in biomedical engineering or something like that - I’m in the beginning of junior year so this could change a little bit, but probably not
I’m an Asian female, I think that matters
Scores:
GPA: 4.0/4.0 in high school, got a B in middle school on a high school course but not sure if that counts for gpa
WGPA: Honestly no idea, probably ~4.7?
SAT Math 2: 800, planning on taking physics or chemistry next year
Taking SAT 1 in December
PSAT: 1510 last year, hopefully will do as well this year and make NMSQT (I don’t think I did as well this year, maybe 1490?)
APs: NSL - 5, CS - 5, taking Chemistry, Biology, World, Lang, Calc, and Stat this year, expecting 4s and 5s on all of them except maybe Chem
Other stuff:
FIRST Robotics! I’ll probably write my essays about this. I’m a sub-team leader, hopefully will be an officer next year, I did a lot of PR + electronics on the team
Research internship, we may get a paper out of my research which will be cool, I’ll do one next summer too, but maybe not in the same lab
CubeSat, some friends and I started a team to build a small satellite + launch it, I’m using PR + electronics skills from robotics to contribute to the team
600+ service hours, the bulk of them are from three things (helping out at a science museum place + camp counselor + internship) that I really focused on, got the President’s Volunteer Service Award - Gold
Science Olympiad, got some district awards last year but couldn’t do it this year because of time, hopefully I’ll do it senior year
Envirothon, it’s this environment/biology competition, my team got 5th place in the county last year as sophomores and all the teams that beat us were made up of seniors except for one, so it’s between us and them for 1st this year
School debate team, hopefully will be captain of this too next year? I’m not doing too well this year, but I might qualify for the county championships
I joined NHS this year but it seems sort of dumb so far…
Some minor math awards, mostly state 1st-3rd places and team competitions, I might put one or two on and leave the most off
A couple of pretty bad public speaking awards, I want to get more into this in senior year because I enjoyed the competitions even though I probably won’t do too well
Violin for ~8 years, I do this county orchestra but I’m not very good
Dance for ~5 years, I’m pretty good, we do a lot of performances and I’ll do a big solo at the end of senior year which should be fun
In senior year, I want to do some tutoring because I think it’ll be fun and I can make some money. I might work at Kumon or work under a lady I know who tutors kids.
Also I’m not sure if I should take the ACT as well as the SAT?