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Accepted; Neuroscience major**</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2320, M800 CR800 W720 (took twice)
[</em>]SAT II: Math 2-780, World-730, BioM-710 (pretty bad considering i want to do neuro)
[<em>]ACT: n/a
[</em>]GPA: 3.87UW/4.63W
[<em>]Rank: top 10% i guess, school doesn’t rank
[</em>]Other Tests: (AMC, AP, IB) ap calc bc 5, ap world 4, ap lang 5, ap bio 5
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[<em>]Essays: eh i’m not sure, i used MIT’s prompt “describe the world you come from” and i talked about my parents. i was trying to go for some nice eloquent prose and honesty, but don’t know if i actually achieved either
[</em>]Teacher Recs: my bio/genetics/marine bio teacher wrote a really personal one; not so sure about my english teacher… she liked me but i wasn’t exceptionally talented at essay writing
[<em>]Counselor Rec: eh completely useless, i’ve had three counselors in high school. 1 in 9th/10th grade, 1 in 11th grade, 1 in 12th grade…
[</em>]Supplementary Material: none, too lazy/untalented to submit anything
[<em>]Hook: none [/ul]Personal[ul]
[</em>]Location: MD
[<em>]High School Type: public magnet
[</em>]Ethnicity: korean
[<em>]Gender: female
[</em>]Applied for Financial Aid: hell yes [/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: field hockey, NHS, SHS, philosophy club, AWANA teacher at church, help at my parents’ store, piano, art, tutoring
[</em>]Awards: 2007 DNA Day essay competition, 2005 honorable mentions for MD state’s federal duck stamp competition, 2005 3rd place MSMTA spring solo festival, national merit finalist (although i never told JHU >_<)
[li]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: i’m really happy! also jhu gave me a nice financial aid so i’m sort of leaning to jhu, even though UMCP has offered a nice scholarship. also, jhu’s bio/neuroscience is supposed to be fantastic!!! [/ul] </p>[/li]
<p>perhaps i’ll see some of you at jhu this fall!</p>