Hello all,
After heavy research, I discovered my dream school is Duke University. My question to you all is if I should apply to Pratt or to Trinity? In other words, which picked school would my application fit in with more? Biomedical Engineering is the goal, but I feel I’m not qualified enough and I’m also interested in medicine, so it’s not the end of the world if Trinity. I plan on applying Early Decision. Thanks for the help!
Major: Biomedical Engineering / Neuroscience / Biology
State: Ohio
School: Very Competitive Public
Ethnicity: African American
Gender: XY
Class: Junior currently
GPA: 3.97 W and 3.6 UW (Yikes)
PSAT: 1420/1520, track to be commended
ACT: N/A hopefully 30+
Subject test: Math 2 - 700 (retaking, took in 10th grade), US History - 720
AP: AP US History (4)
Awards: Honor roll, Scholar athlete, academic medallion, Salute to Excellence
Freshie
Honors Algebra 2 - A
Honors English 9 - B
Physical Science - A
World History - A
Spanish 2 - A
Electives - A
Sophomore
Honors Pre Calc - A
Honors Bio - A
Honors Chemistry - A
Honors English 11 - B
Spanish 3 - B
AP US History - B
Electives - A
Junior
AP Calc BC - B
AP Physics 1 - B
AP Economics - A
AP English 11 - B
Spanish IV - A
Electives- A
Senior
AP Statistics
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
AP Spanish
AP English 12
As one can tell, my GPA is on the lower end.
EC:
In school
Basketball - lettered sophomore year, won division 1 districts, really big part of my life, takes up LOTS of time
Track - lettered sophomore year, won division 1 districts, takes up LOTS of time
African American Culture Club - Co founder and Vice President,
Diversity Acceptance Program - Vice president,
Youth For Christ - Vice President,
LabLink - research club
Selected freshmen mentor
S.P.L.A.S.H - Selective program for leaders within my school
Out of School
Partner at Be The Change Venture - diversity and inclusion movement within Cleveland
Junior Ambassadors - Volunteered 109 hours at Cleveland Clinic main campus in the summer
Research Assistant - Assisted post doc at Case Western Reserve’s biomedical engineering lab
Student Board for DifferentLikeYou.com - summer internship at non profit - website for kids with disabilities
Interned at Artificial Intelligence Laboratories - Interned at firm based in San Francisco
Council Member at the City Club of Cleveland - year round
Food bank - Volunteering
Ron Brown GPS Program
Started my own lawn care company 2 summers ago
(PLAN ON PARTICIPATING IN STEM RELATED CAMPS OVER SUMMER)
Thanks guys & gals 