<p>Instate Asian male, looking to see if I can get in to the UCONN honors program. Originally posted in the UCONN thread, but no response forthcoming.</p>
<p>Statistics</p>
<p>SAT Scores : 2160, single sitting, will retake. 1430 combined reading and math
AP Scores: Took APUSH, AP Calc AB, AP Lang, and AP Chem, Got a 5 on all.
SAT II Scores: 740 Bio, 760 Chem, retaking Bio and doing Math II
GPA: 4.0
Current courses: AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Bio, AP Psych, a physics course at UCONN.</p>
<p>Work Experience</p>
<p>Summer 2014-Current:</p>
<p>Spent my summer at a Yale biotech lab doing research on non-small cell lung cancer. Helped discover an interesting correlation between drug-treated cancer cell migrations and a certain glycoprotein.</p>
<p>Currently working in the same lab throughout my senior year, working on an independent project, albeit under guidance of a graduate student who I worked with over the summer. Focusing on brain cancer and immune cell interactions.</p>
<p>Summer 2013</p>
<p>Interned at AstraZeneca in Shanghai, Helped out with drug development of TRCP6 for kidney disease,</p>
<p>Volunteering</p>
<p>I volunteered at Yale New Haven Hospital this summer</p>
<p>I help out at church a bit as well as at the soup kitcen</p>
<p>Extracurricular</p>
<p>Im involved in Interact Club, Student Council, as well as Ecology club.
I am not a club leader in any, but I am leading an interact project and am a co-founder of a tutoring group in the school to help underclassmen struggling with math.
Will be playing in a music festival
I am a student representative for advisory commitees and was on a NEASC board, but that was all relatively minor.</p>
<p>Sports
Played tennis all past three years, did varsity and junior varsity, no captainship</p>
<p>Ran Cross Country and Indoor track last year as well.</p>
<p>Essays
Have two great teachers writing my recs, APUSH and AP Chem. Both liked me alot</p>
<p>Have the grad student I worked with writing an essay, and then having the professor sign off on it.</p>
<p>Guidance Counselor: IDK about this one, we get along but dont interact much. Probably will be very generic</p>
<p>Mine: I feel pretty strong about this one, my college counselor whose seen through alot of kids who've gotten into Ivies was pretty enthusiastic about it.</p>
<p>Weaknesses</p>
<p>I feel like I put to much emphasis and overestimated the importance of research, especially since I haven't won any big prizes. I will be planning on entering the UCONN Symposium, but that will be to late to make an impact I feel. My SAT scores are also a bit weak, will be working on getting a high 22. No club leadership is a big weakness in my opinion, I just am not involved to much in my school to make me like a leader in any sort. Sports are also slightly weak.</p>
<p>Thanks for all reading and commenting. </p>