I am a rising senior who is applying for the ED option for Boston University. Here are my stats:
GPA: 3.45 (UW) / 3.7 (W) (Have displayed a positive trend from freshman year onward)
Class Rank: 21/451 (~5%); attending a relatively lower-income high school in Texas
SAT II: Biology (Molecular) - 800; World History - 800; Literature - 670 (I’m planning on taking the subject tests for chemistry and ecological biology later in December)
ACT: Composite (33); English (35); Math (26); Reading (34); Science (35) (All in 1 sitting)
AP Classes: AP English Language (4), AP Biology (4), AP English Literature (4), AP World History (4), AP Chemistry (currently enrolled), AP Spanish Language (currently enrolled), AP Psychology (currently enrolled), AP Government and Politics (currently enrolled)
E.C:
- Red Cross of America volunteer at Madigan Army Medical Center for the summer of 2014, where I was able to attend multiple physician conferences and boards pertinent to the field of Oncology (+180 hours)
- Current volunteer for New Century Hospice of Killeen, in which I aid in individual patient care and bereavement counseling (+100 hours so far)
- National Honor Society
- Science National Honor Society
- Founded and currently conduct AP Literature tutoring sessions for my fellow peers (every day after school)
- Heart 2 Heart of Shoemaker High School, where our organization is involved in school spirit as well as community outreach
Awards/ Honors:
- AP Scholar with Honor
- Presidential Volunteer Service Award recipient
- Grand Prize for the Lakes High School STEM Fair (2015)
- 1st Place; District Science Fair (2015)
- 2nd Place (Biomedical Sciences); South Sound Regional Science Fair (2015)
- Society of In-vitro Biology (2015)
Teacher recommendations are excellent, and my essays pertain to: the discouragement of our disparaged youth, and how such a mindset of deprecation limits their success (CA essay) / how BU exemplifies the notion of the ‘modern Renaissance man’ (BU essay)