Chances for President's Scholarship?

[Eulerismyhomeboy]

<p>Thinking about majoring in biomedical or chemical engineering</p>

<p>Ethnicity: White
Gender: FEMALE
High School: Public in NC (9-10), public boarding school (considered public elite) (11-12)</p>

<p>AP – AP Calc AB (5), AP environmental science (4), will take AP Chem, AP Microecon, AP Comp Sci
The coursework at my current school is pretty advanced so junior year I took multivariable calc, combinatorics and game theory, molecular and cell biology, Spanish II and some more basic courses. Next year I’m taking astrophysics, galaxies and cosmology, number theory, graph theory, mathematical modeling, complex systems I and II, biomedical instrumentation, two english classes, and the APs listed above (we take 15 classes a year). </p>

<p>GPA (at 1st school) – weighted: 4.75, unweighted: 4.0. Rank:1/341
GPA (current) – weighted: 5.35 (it’ll go up), we don’t have unweighted GPAs, but I’ve only made 1 B+ and the rest were As so around 3.93. No ranking system.
SAT- CR=620 W=630 M=760 = 2010
SAT 2 – will take math II and physics</p>

<p>Extracurriculars...
- I'm doing a mentorship at Duke for most of the next school year in biomedical/chemical engineering. I might also work in the lab a few weeks this summer. I'll be doing my own project that ties into a larger project.
- This summer, I'm doing an astronomy program through UNC. I am the only HS student, the rest are undergrads. We're observing using a radio telescope basically to investigate the field and get some research experience.
-Student Ambassador, 150ish hours
-physics teacher's assistant, selected based on physics aptitude and responsibility
-varisty softball (4 years)
-softball captain next year
-varsity swimming (4 years)
-travel softball, 2 years (state champions, competed in nationals)
-freshman and sophomore class president
-black belt in tae kwon do
-french horn, 6 years
-marching band, 2 years
-mellophone section leader and soloist, 10th grade
-teen volunteer at local hospital, 300+ hours
-habitat for humanity
-qualified for the AIME this year
-math club, 2 years
-I’ve done some math competitions, but I’ve never placed
-prom committee
-junior marshal
-FCA, 2 years
-Student council, 2 years
-National merit
-working on starting a club next year, but haven’t gotten everything together
-One of my recs will be awesome, the other will be pretty good
-I'll have good supplementary recs too, one from my mentor at Duke hopefully</p>

[GPBurdell32]

<p>You’ve got the raw material. Be sure to spend time on the application–people with your credentials have missed opportunities by being slack on the application. How are your interview skills? Humility? </p>

<p>The fact that you know that it is President’s (instead of Presidential) could be of some value. ;-)</p>

[itsme123]

<p>low sat scores; retake. they are incongruent with your curriculum and gpa. and what burdell said.</p>