<p>Sex: Male
Race: Asian
Location: Memphis, Tennessee</p>
<p>Senior Year Courses:
Spanish 4
Calculus
Chamber Choir
Honors British Literature
Physics
Theology 4
Psychology </p>
<p>*My GD told me that I'm currently taking the most challenging courses and that I'm on my way to becoming valedictorian. My school does not provide any AP courses and only a couple of Honors classes per grade (it's a VERY small school with only 100 high school students)...but I've never had anything below an A on my report card.</p>
<p>ACT: 28 (Taken 4 times; highest score)
SAT: 1890/2400 (Only taken once)
GPA: 4.00 UW</p>
<p>Activities:
Cross Country (10-12) (Captain in 12)
Track (10-12) (Long distance co-captain in 11-12)
NHS Treasurer (10-11) and President (12)
House Captain (12)*
Spanish Club (9-12) (VP in 11) (President in 12)
Jefferson Awards Students in Action (11-12)**
Bridge Builders (11-12) (Leadership Board member in 11-12)</p>
<p><em>My school has a student-led house system similar to the house system in Harry Potter (replaces SGA)
*</em>Won the Mid-South Regional award for Best Community Service. Even earned a trip to Washington, D.C. and met the Tennessee Senators. </p>
<p>Work/Internships*:
Freshman - Intern at FedEx World Headquarters
Sophomore - Intern at both UT Medical Group and ReTrans, Inc.
Junior - Intern at Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
Senior - PharmTech Lab Assistant at the University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy</p>
<p>*All the money that I've earned from working goes straight to paying my high school tuition, and I've probably raised $5,000 a year (16 hours a week). </p>
<p>College essay = great. Through Memphis Challenge (a program for highly achieving minority Memphians), I had it reviewed by a professional writer that works in the FedEx Communications Team, and she said that it will definitely stand out in a stack of other essays (I wrote about how scraping off gum during my first and only detention helped me to discover my leadership potential).</p>
<p>My history teacher (of 2 years) wrote me an excellent letter, and my math teacher (of 3 years) wrote me an appropriately funny yet stellar letter. My former corporate employer (who is the community relations dept manager of a highly respected regional hospital) wrote an excellent letter as well, praising my work ethic and accomplishments at the job. My GD also told me that the letter she wrote is significantly better than the rest of my peers.</p>
<p>I also had an interview with a Vandy alum, who is now a laywer, and we had the best time. In fact, it didn't even feel like an interview, more like a friendly conversation (we found out that we both love playing flag football). She promised to write me the best evaluation report.</p>
<p>I've been assured that the test scores are only a fraction of what Vanderbilt considers, so hopefully, my academics, ECs, and recs will make up for it. I've met the college admissions counselor three times in person (the third time, she already memorized my name and approached me and said hi while at a college fair), and I've also been keeping in contact with her occasionally through email and phone.</p>
<p>I've been dreaming of attending Vanderbilt ever since 6th grade, and I plan on majoring in the Medicine, Health and Society program. As I read back on this post, it make me look VERY conceited, but I'm just making myself sound better than I actually am! Haha, I'm just curious to see what you guys think. :)</p>