Hope I included enough information! I have omitted some of the more detailed information. Thank you! Ignore other college information.
Personal Information:
Female, white, dual citizen.
Florida resident.
Aunt went to Emory. Not sure if that is considered legacy.
Would apply to Duke as ED. Top choice.
Looking for possible financial aid.
Tried to do as much as I can with my circumstances. Have had to overcome various difficulties. Extremely passionate and devoted to everything I do.
School:
Florida Virtual School/County Virtual School
Grade: 11th, have completed additional courses to graduate a year early.
Rank: 1st
Unweighted GPA: 4.0
Weighted GPA: 4.5
Focused on science classes. Have taken seven science courses.
All classes are honors, except the ones that were not offered as honors, such as language, or AP classes.
AP classes taken and plan to take (11 or 12 in total):
*Biology
*Environmental Science
*Psychology
*Computer Science
*U.S History
*U.S Government & Politics
*Macroeconomics
*Microeconomics
*English Literature and Composition
*English Language and Composition
*Art History
Debating taking calculus or statistics?
School only offers 1 more AP class that I have not taken, no IB.
AP Scholar.
ACT: 33
Subject Tests: Have not taken yet. Going to take Biology E/C, English Literature, and Math II.
Extracurriculars:
Athletics:
- Lettering in varsity swim team for 4 years.
- Going to be captain next season.
- Hoping to go to districts or further next season.
- Swimmer on a U.S.A club swim team, multiple Olympic swimmers have also been apart of the swim team and coach. Coach attended Duke.
Clubs:
I have a lot of involvement in these clubs. I have omitted detailed information to not ramble too much.
- Science National Honor Society: Member for 3 years. President for 2 years. Vice-president for 1 year. Nominated for club award.
- National Honor Society: Member for 3 years. President, vice-president, and treasurer for 1 year each.
- STEAM: Member for 3 years. President for 1 year. Vice-President for 1 year. Nominated for club award.
- MUN: Member for 2 years. Attended GatorMUN. Hoping to attend another conference.
- Latin: Member for 2 years. No officer position, but have helped with various school-wide events.
- Student Ambassadors: Volunteer to help teachers with their lessons.
- School Advisory Council: High school representative out of whole high school student body.
Volunteering:
- 100+ hours at a prestigious hospital. Assigned special area. First high school student to volunteer in that area.
- Probably have about 200 or more hours of various activities.
Work:
- Going to help my father with his business.
Awards:
Not a lot of opportunities to receive them.
- Character counts (twice).
- Student of the month.
- Featured as a student in newspaper multiple times.
Etc.:
- Attending prestigious research program this summer. Hope to publish or enter research into fair.
- Hoping to do research over the next school year with a prestigious cancer lab.
- Have been accepted to and attended multiple programs at the hospital previously mentioned.
- Shadowed multiple physicians.
- Nominated to represent my school for a young woman focused program. Possibly joining the program's leadership council.
- Run a somewhat successful blog on my journey as a student.
- Founder and leader of a pediatric focused organization.
- Going to start working on essays soon. Putting my heart and soul into them.
- Recommendations will be great as I have a close relationship with those who I will choose.
- Close friends with many Duke alumni.