<p>colleges I'm applying to -- University of Maryland- College Park, Boston University, University of Virginia, MIT, Yale, UPenn, Columbia, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>I am a white female senior from MD with parent income <65k. I want to major in biomedical or chemical engineering.</p>
<p>-Unweighted GPA: 4.0</p>
<p>-Weighted GPA (5-point scale): 4.2449</p>
<p>-# of AP/honors: 11/9</p>
<p>-class rank/size: 5th out of 321 (because I took orchestra instead of AP Stat...the four above me are tied for 1 by less than .05 -____-)</p>
<p>-SAT scores: 2340 (800M/800W/740CR) only took once junior year</p>
<p>-SAT II scores: 800 Math 2; 740 Bio E</p>
<p>-AP scores: AP Calc AB (5), AP Enviro (5), AP English Lang (5), AP Physics B (4), AP US History (4), AP World History (4), taking AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Physics C: Mechanics, AP Calc BC, and AP English Lit this year</p>
<p>-ECs: *field hockey (captain)- play club year round, all-county, all-division, coach's award 2012, most improved 2011
*lacrosse (captain)- play in winter/summer leagues, unsung hero 2012
*Green Team (Co-President)- co wrote a Lowe's toolbox for education grant for 2k to create a sustainable garden that donates food to school cafeteria and local community; helped school regain green school status; help run recycling program; help run local earth day celebration
*Spanish Honor Society (President)- run a tutoring program for ESOL students in math and science, self-studying spanish to stay in it
*National Honor Society
*Tri-M Music Honor Society- in school's Orchestra
*Tutor- tutor students in math (algebra through calc ab) and physics about 2 hours a week</p>
<p>-employment: work at a local restaurant as a hostess about 15 hours/week</p>
<p>-honors/awards: Sigma Xi High School award (science research society), National Merit commended, AP Scholar with Distinction, Honor roll every quarter</p>
<p>-additional information: one of my classes is an internship at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense. I am trying to discover the mechanism behind the spontaneous reactivation of VR-inhibited atypical butyrylcholinesterase (this is a fancy way to say I'm trying to find a cure for nerve agent poisoning)</p>