ED1 to WashU

Colleges and Universities A-Z Washington University in St. Louis
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Hi all,
I am currently a junior at a private high school in san francisco, and am looking to ED to WUSTL next november. I am in the IB and take HL Chem, HL Bio, and HL Lang and Lit. I have outstanding ECs and a good SAT, with a GPA on the lower end. Chance me:
Grades/Curriculum:
GPA: 3.5/4.00 UW
SAT: 1530
Bilingual IB Diploma: HL Chem, HL Bio, HL Lang and Lit, SL Math, SL French lang and lit, TOK, SL French Geo.
3.8/4.0 for all STEM courses
3.75/4.0 at Cornell Summer undergrad course

  • Can speak chinese, french, english (obviously), farsi (persian).
  • Major: biology
    Hooks: Second generation to attend college, Type 1 diabetic
    idk if those are considered hooks

ECs:
Undergrad Internship working with actual undergrad students at Northwestern University. Only 5-6 High school students get accepted to this program.

  • Work in real labs
  • 50 day lab
  • Publish paper by the end of 50 days.

Global Issues Network Conference (GIN Conference) 10, 11

  • Presented to 200 students on Infectious diseases and volunteered for organization of the event.
  • Conducted a Q&A workshop on the presentation along with interactive activities.

Songs for Senegal Fund Raising Event (Sister School in Africa – Senegal) 9, 10, 11

  • Helped raised funds for sister school in Africa - Senegal

Model United Nations (BMUN) Conference - Berkeley 10, 11

  • Participated as a delegate, and was assigned a country to represent during the simulation.
  • Conducted research prior to the event and formulated positions before debating with fellow delegates.
  • Served for Sudan for Legal Rights committee (10th)
  • Served for Bahrain in the Legal Rights committee (11th)
  • Won research award for my country, first time in my high school’s history and in a committee of over 300 students, only 10 were awarded.

One Act Festival, Actor – International High school 10, 11

  • Performed leading and support role in one student-written and produced one-act play:
    The Green Hill, Along for the ride
  • Rehearsed weekly, assist with lighting and technical production, help with promotion

Athletics:

Varsity Tennis, 9, 10, 11

  • Placed 2nd in league and advanced to regionals
  • Recipient of Regional Athletic Director Award of Excellence (9th.)
  • Recipient of Most Improved Player Award (9th.)
    Bay Club, Tennis
  • USTA Junior Tennis Summer League -2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
  • Fresno Team Tennis League Champion winner – 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
  • Gar Glenney Cup State Champion winner – 2012, 2013, 2014
  • Featured in Tennis Magazine and local Newspaper- 2012, 2013, 2014
  • USTA Ranked top 270 in Norcal – Boys 16 and under

Community Service and Involvement:

Type One Advocates (TOA) Nov, 2016
www.typeoneadvocates.org

  • Founded Type One Advocates, a non-profit organization, raising awareness for Type One Diabetes in the Bay Area. By working with other non-profit organizations such as JDRF and CarbDM, Type One Advocates is able to educate, create awareness, mentor newly diagnosed children, educate their families, and raise money help build a striving community.
  • Facebook Followers: 3,000
  • Raised $2,200+ for diabetes research.

Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) 9, 10, 11

  • Youth Advocacy Leader for Children's Congress (JDRF), raised awareness about Type 1 Diabetes, mentoring program volunteer , “One Walk” Team leader and walker, raised over $1,000 for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (10th)

Retirement Homes (7, 8, 9,10)

  • Played the Piano for Retirement Homes on Sundays and special occasions

High school Admission Team, Admission Host

  • Serve as a student host for visiting students, give tours of the school for prospective students

Music:

  • National Guild Music Diploma candidate – Graduation Date from Music
    School – June 2017)
  • National Guild Piano Certificate – 2008 through 2017
  • US Open Piano Competition 2nd place winner - 2013

Application Development:

  • Developed an application for Type 1 Diabetes management, blood sugar tracking, insulin dosing, carb counting, foot steps, and other important supplementary features. This app is specifically for diabetics who do not have an insulin pump. The app provides users with features that an insulin pump has, but on their phones

In addition, I am a type one diabetic myself and had medical issues my first semester of junior year, resulting in my GPA to drop, but my principal assured me that a professional letter would be written to explain the drop. Besides that, I had a respectable sophomore and freshman year. Also, another reason why my GPA is lower than usual is because of Chinese in freshman year - the teacher hated me and tried his hardest to give me a C both semesters, even after attempting to be his btich

My essays will be about my diabetes and how i overcame this obstacle, and am now helping others who were in my position. My letters of rec are going to be 10/10, both teachers love me and acknowledge my efforts in their class. I also have a strong outside of classroom relationship with them.

I will also visit the school this thursday, and have my interview. I am showing a lot of interest as this school is my number one choice.

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Forgot to mention my school does not have A-, B-, C+, C-, D+, D-
Just A+, A, B+, B, C, D, F

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Low reach right now because of the UW GPA but I can see you being accepted by WashU ED. The letter explaning your health issues and how they affected your grades could help. Hopefully you don’t have any Cs on your transcript.



I would suggest editing your post to obfuscate your personal information. You pretty much divulged your school name and a Google search could reveal who you are based on your tennis results. Given how things are these days, you need to reveal as little of your personal information as possible.

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@Hamurtle Thanks for the response. WashU requests first marking period grades, and I have been showing an upward trend ever since the medical incident. I am hoping for atleast a 3.9 unweighted by the marking period. If I ED with a 3.65 GPA, would I be a match in your opinion?

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It might be a low match. I believe WashU has taken students with a similar GPA. You have enough interesting ECs that make you a compelling candidate for admission.



Since you are visiting/interviewing, you are definitely showing interest. The interview tends to be not as formal as one would expect. My son (who got in ED this year) told me that the interviewer will try to make you as comfortable as possible. Generally it will be an admissions officer who does the interviewing although my son told me his interviewer was a current student.



Also given your tennis results, are you recruitable for the team? Try to see if you can contact the tennis coach.


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You might be a decent candidate for Rice or Vanderbilt as well. I would suggest RD to Vanderbilt. Not many Californians think about the school.

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@Hamurtle Thank you for your help!

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bump

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my stats were not this good, and I got it

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@nineteeth123 Are you URM or First gen?

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bump

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So you did Programs at Cornell and Northwestern but are certain WashU is your #1 choice?

Can you shed light on that - you will need to be extremely clear why WashU.

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@ClarinetDad16 Cornell cause I was interested in that school before but my interest has shifted to WashU and I was selected for a prestigious internship at NU so I went and did that to make it clear that im interested in sciences (more focused ECs and background)