Major: Biochemistry, Biology, Neuroscience (minor maybe?)
Sat: 1540
Sat II:
800 chem
770 math 2
780 physics
770 literature
Honors/AP Classes:
H English - 11
H Bio- 11
H History- 11
Apah- 11
GPA:
W GPA: 3.7 (upwards trend…but yea its bad. screwed up freshman year so no honors freshman year and sophomore year. My school has strict pre reqs and teacher recs are useless and looked down upon, so freshman year is messed up in all cp (my grandpa became a heart patient and his heart was basically dead and my parents were working to pay of the medical bills and I had to prioritize my siblings and their hw/test over mine- not having gc write about this because theres people in worse situations who did better), sophomore year is all A in cp classes, Junior year is honors and one AP, Senior year is all 2 honors and 4 ap +gym and lunch )
UW GPA: 3.56
Senior Year Classes:
AP Bio/ research for bio (i go to rutgers near by once a week to do research)
AP chem
AP Eng 12
Calc H/ or bc calc
physics H
Ap psych
internship at hospital (program through my school)
ECs:
-Pre-med (9-12) president- under my leadership we raised enough money to restore the vision of 5 people in underdeveloped countries
-Founder and president of science research club(11-12) - we have a website, student conduct their own experiments and write professional research papers
-Bioleague
-Worked with a charity to raise money to pay for 5-10 children’s education for a year in Africa (they organization decides which country) (the cost per child was 120; i tried my best, I know the number is small)
-Internship with surgeon
-Tutoring a child with dyslexia in english
- Changed the plastic recycling system at my school for the improvement of the environment (inspired by my teacher; currently working on this)
Explanation for ec’s:
Pre med: I am extremely passionate about medicine and specifically neurosurgery for these reasons: I have always been good at math and science and am ambitious to learn about them daily, I am passionate about helping people and making people happy not only with their lives but also content with themselves, I enjoy and get a natural high off of a faced paced, hectic life. In freshman year I joined pre med to learn about the fields and discover what I want to do, but it turns out the president only kept the position for college (he still got into harvard, despite being known as a cheater haha). In fact, he got so lazy during his senior year, he decided not to run the club in my sophomore year. I re-opened the club once I was a junior and promised myself I would not do that, now we have a meeting every other week on the following topics: medical topics (diseases, medical history, etc.), innovation and invention, MCAT prep, and serving mankind. I realize that the people whose eye sight was restored is a low number, but this junior year was my first year running this club and I am proud of the start I had; it annoys me that the number isn’t as big as a 50 or 100 (so far), but thinking that 5 people have a better life because of my school and peers makes me more determined and passionate than I was before.
Research: Following into medicine, my other passion is research. It is crazy to think how far we have come from the last century. It takes true dedication and ambition to put every ounce of knowledge, time, and work into a research paper for the soul purpose of driving mankind forward. My research club has 8 very skilled, ambitious, and dedicated researchers who have completed articles from sleep’s effect on memory to calculating what an average person can do to slow down climate change. Now I know that as 14-17 year olds we did not cure cancer or invent a biotechnology to un-paralyze people, but what this club has done is prepared students to build and find a passion for something- have direction in life, make a difference at my school (issues such as dirty water fountains were resolved and scientific reasoning was given to get vaccinated during flu season, changing over 100 people’s view on vaccines~survey we did), and to be the leaders of tomorrow. I can humbly say that everyone who made it into my club has walked away a better pre-med, a better engineer, a better researcher, and most of all a better person.
Providing children with education: One of my biggest goals in life is to open up a stem focused school in undeserved countries. So originally I fundraised for that goal; at the end of the year I was disappointing that I barely raised 1,500$. My cousin introduced me to this charity (not saying name to protect my privacy) that she has worked with before, and I learned that 1,200 $ can provide 5-10 children in africa free education for a whole year. Now this was not my original goal, but it gave me a good start. The rest of the 300 went to feeding a homeless family in america for 1 month. Now, in the future perhaps during college, I will launch my own business / fundraiser to reach my goal of making a school.