<p>Extreme involvement on newspaper staff (news editor, managing editor, circulation manager); our newspaper is a National Pacemaker newspaper; Pacemaker is the equiv. of a Pulitzer Prize for high school journalism</p>
<p>One of three students to receive a student grant from the Naperville Education Foundation for an artsy project/club entailing the reproduction of classic pieces of art in a grid-like process. A work of art is divided into a grid so that students can take a part of the piece and reproduce it. In the end, we put it together and see how it came together. Get it? The club is called Mosaique.</p>
<p>Involved at the hospital that I volunteer at.</p>
<p>Anything else you want to know?</p>
<p>I want to get involved with a student publication, preferrably the most popular newspaper or newsmagazine, and would like to major in biology.</p>
<p>Yep you're in. But apply early as biology is an extremely popular and competitive major. The earlier the better the chances. Or at least for you less wait time haha. But seriously I say you're fine.</p>
<p>is it better for me to apply as undecided? will declaring myself a bio major give me a boost or not? and if you go in as a bio major then you start studying all that immediately, right?</p>
<p>Hey, first off, I think you're pretty much a shoe in. It's kind of hard to tell if applying undecided will improve your chances of getting accepted. I think that even if you don't (though you probably will) specifically get into the Biology major, U of I definitely wouldn not just reject you outright. U of I would probably just ask you choose another major and then you could transfer into bio later on if you want to. </p>
<p>If you go in as a bio major, you usually take a few intro bio courses along with the intro chemistry courses your first year. Besides the intro bio and chem courses, you'll take general education requirements, which often involve composition and math courses. </p>
<p>In terms of majoring in bio, there are basically two paths that students follow after their first year. They either choose Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB) or Integrative Biology (IB). These two links explain how it works:</p>
<p>I also want to point out that you don't necessarily have to major in bio in order to go premed, if that's what you're planning on doing. You can major in just about anything and still be premed. The only thing you need to do in order to go premed is take certain bio, chem, math, and physics classes along with whatever major you choose.</p>