I plan on applying to Cornell, Penn, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Dartmouth (those five all ED prospects, UChicago EA, Northwestern (maybe ED, no idea yet), Vassar, Williams, Swarthmore, Reed, UMich, Stony Brook and NYU. Still working on more safeties. How do I look for these schools? Thank you!
Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t take yet, I’d estimate around a 2300 (800 CR, 800 W, 700M)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School doesn’t give that, I have a 94.88. Weighted is 98.32
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Second cohort group (for 97-100 average, 100+ is top). That puts me around top 20%, probably close to top 15%
IB (place score in parenthesis): I am taking a full IB diploma course load
Junior Year Course Load: Regents Physics, IB Mathematics SL, IB HOTA HL, IB Theory of Knowledge, Science Research, IB Spanish HL, IB Chemistry HL, IB English HL
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing major as of now, a bunch of Model UN delegate awards though.
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Model UN (Director-General), Debate Team (club no longer exists, but I was a member 9th and 10th), Political Activism Club (Treasurer), Science Olympiad, Independent Model UN Team (Co-head delegate, I created this with my friends because our school doesn’t let us attend many conferences and makes us jump through a lot of hoops to do anything).
Job/Work Experience: NA
Volunteer/Community service: Mentor in a social skills group for kids with autism spectrum disorders, I’ve been doing this for years.
Summer Activities: 2015 Hofstra University Summer Science Research Program (pretty selective, I got to work with a professor in their Psych department) and a summer internship this past summer in an oncology/hematology lab at Weill Cornell Medical College where I conducted a research project. I hope I can go back next summer. I am also doing some Psych work with an NYU professor, my project concerns facial emotion recognition.
Intended Major: Biological Sciences/Neuroscience
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant): US
School Type: Large public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I wish
Thank you!