Drjta2015
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12-28-2014 at 12:33 pm
Decision: ACCEPTED (sorry for posting so late)
Objective:
SAT I: 2310 (Math: 800; Reading: 780; Writing: 730)
ACT: Didn’t take
SAT II: Bio-M (800); Math II (800); Physics (770)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
Weighted GPA (out of 5.0): 4.55
Rank: 1/449
AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio (5); Environmental (5); Calc AB (5); Calc BC (5); Didn’t send: Chem (4); Comp Sci (4); Stat (4); Human Geo (4); Didn’t take: Lang, Gov’t, or World
IB (place score in parenthesis): haha nope
Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C, AP Physics 1, APUSH, AP Literature, AP Macro/Micro Economics, STEM Research and Data Analysis, STEM Green Media, Gym, Advanced Individual Research, AP Psychology
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): I copied the awards I put down on my app
Gordon E. Moore Award (top ISEF award), National Geographic Emerging Explorer, Smithsonian American Ingenuity Award, TED mainstage speaker, 18 other TEDx venues, White House Champion of Change in Open Science, FutureMed faculty, USASEF advisory board member, SXSWedu featured speaker, Google Thinking Big Award, Time 30 under 30, Featured on 60 minutes, ABC World News with Diane Sawyer, the Colbert Report, Dr.Oz, The View, CNN, CCTV (China), Wake up with Al, People Magazine, O magazine, Forbes, Popular Science, Wired magazine, smithsonian magazine, and Nat Geo, Siemens We Can Change the World First Place Nationally, speaker Delhi Sustainable Development Summit, SJWP Innovation in Water Award, speaker at over 100 venues internationally including the Clinton Global Initiative, White House State of STEM, and Yalta European Summit, published author with Harper Collins, New York Times Op-Ed Contributor, Stanford Medx Global Access Host, PLoS blogger, Stanford Medx Keynote Speaker, Wikimania Keynote Speaker, speaker at the UN/Social Good Summit, speaker at PanCan and other charity events that have collectively raised over $1,000,000, routinely lobby Congress to raise awareness and increase funding for pancreatic cancer, Speaker at HRC event with Ellen Page and Chelsea Clinton, OUT 100, Advocate 40 under 40, GWU Global LGBT health speaker, USAJMO qualifier, PUMaC A division 7th in Number Theory and 3rd in Combinatorics, 6th place at National Mandelbrot, 13 on AIME, US Junior Wildwater Team, US Eastern Wildwater Open First in Junior Mens Division.
Subjective
Extracurriculars (see above for awards): Math Team (Captain), Math Circle (Competition Coordinator/lots of international awards), LGBT activism, Whitewater kayaking (club founder/USA Junior Wildwater Team), Pancreatic and Ovarian cancer activism (raised over $1,000,000), Open Access activism (recognized by White House), Speaking (I speak worldwide about STEM and Open Access), Scientific Research (I’ve done a lot of scientific research on several different projects and I hold a patent on one of the projects, also won a lot of international awards)
Job/Work Experience: (paid) I ‘work’ at Harper Collins and the US State Department
Volunteer/Community service: Over 1,500 hours to different causes
Summer Activities: A lot of scientific research and speaking
Essays (rating 1-10, details):
Common App: 9/10, talked about my journey to becoming a public speaker and my future aspirations
Intellectaul vitality: 7/10, same topic as above (finding topics that I’m passionate about speaking about)
Roommate: 8/10, I liked it, it talked about who I was outside of the academic setting, pretty playful in tone
What matters: 8/10, talked about my efforts in pancreatic cancer awareness
Short Answer: 9/10, I really liked them
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher #1 8/10: The Science Department chair and my AP Bio teacher who really liked me
Teacher #2 7/10: Another Science teacher who I’m super close with and eat lunch with everyday and was my supervisor for one of my research projects
Optional Rec: 8/10: From a faculty member from the Stanford School of Medicine and who ran Stanford Medx, he loves me
Counselor: 7/10: Described me as an awesome student, one of the best in her career and I hung out in her office a lot so we knew each other pretty well. Mentioned that I took every AP class available excluding language and art classes and took Calc 3 and linear algebra in 11th
Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: Bioengineering
State (if domestic applicant): MD
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public, 2300 students
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Gender: M
Income Bracket: ~ 200k
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Reflection:
Strengths: awards and recs
Weaknesses: Grades (I had straight A’s except for 1 B in one semester of 10th grade English)
Overall: Before you get into high school make sure you’re super good at math and abstract thinking as this makes the AP science and math classes a breeze, also read a ton of books and write essays/blogs on topics of your choice to improve your writing, email professors your research proposals (they’re really friendly - mostly - and some might accept you). Get really good at public speaking too, I started doing national/international science fairs in 6th grade so by the time I was in 9th grade I could have a ton of experience.
General Comments: SOOOO EXCITEEEED!!! You don’t have to have no social life to get into these schools, I always got at least 6 hours of sleep and could watch T.V and hang out with my friends. Also you don’t have to have perfect grades, I got one B but I still ended up 1st in class by taking a bunch of APs. Can’t wait to see everyone in September 
