White Male at small poor suburban school
Academics:
ACT: 32 C, 33 E, 31 M, 31 S, 31 R
UW GPA: 3.63 Weighted GPA: 4.7
Majors:
NU, Yale, and Notre Dame:Chemical Engineering
UIUC:Bioengineering or biochemistry
Senior Courses: (this was the most rigorous schedule I could take)
AP Calc AB
AP Chem
Honors Anatomy and Physiology
Italian II
Consumers Education
Art
AP Exams/Courses:
AP Human Geography (4)
AP Lang (3)
AP US History (4)
AP World History (5)
AP Physics 1 (3)
Rank: 5/202
I took the hardest courses available and got A’s in most of them
Awards:
AP Scholar With Distinction
Quest Bridge Finalist
Illinois State Scholar
2x All-Conference Track and Field
5x Academic All-Conference
Project SEED Finalist
2x Briglio Award
Freshman and Junior Class Leader
High Honor Roll every semester
EC:
One of the four students in Chicago chosen to do research at Loyola University through Project SEED. I worked 40 hours a week the whole summer doing research on type II diabetes treatments in the field of inorganic chemistry. My professor liked me a lot and wants me to come back this summer to continue doing research.
Track and Field all 4 years (JV captain Frosh/Soph years and Varsity Sprints captain Junior year)
Football all 4 years
Varsity Club
Football Camp for frosh/soph/junior year summers
Android Developer (taught myself coding and debugging)
Wrestling Senior year (JV captain)
Babysitting
National Honor Society
Volunteering at local health fairs and soup kitchens
Work:
Pet Supplies Plus for most of Junior Year
My local pool for the past 2 summers
Essays:
Common App Essay: I made this very personal. I talked about my struggles in life and how I have disciplined myself to be a hard worker. I also talked about my shift from casual jobs to doing research and how this was a shift into adulthood for me because it has changed me into a more outgoing and disciplined person.
Why NU Essay?: I wish this I talked more about NU in this but it’s not bad. Basically, I started off detailing my interest in science and then I went on into why northwestern is my first choice over any other school and how the school’s resources will help me succeed. I also talked about my visits there and I connected them with my love for science.
Letters of Rec:
One from my AP Calc teacher who also was my honors math teacher in previous years. She really likes me and she is very nice
One from my AP Chem teacher. This is her first year in the school and she is an amazing teacher. I always participate in class and I do great on every test. She likes me a lot and we have grown to be close.
One from my Honors Anatomy teacher. He is also my school’s athletic trainer. I have known him for all 4 years and we are really close.
One from the professor that I did research for. He also really likes me and as I said earlier he said I helped out a lot in the lab with the research and he wants me to come back and continue it.
One from my counselor who I also have a good relationship with
Thanks!