Hi.
I’m currently a junior in high school and I just wanted to know my chances of getting into these schools.
GPA: 96 or 3.8
SAT: 1410
Class Rank: 60/740 so top 8%
Race: African-American/First-Generation born in America (Nigerian)
Any other hooks: Parents just got divorced, been alone living with my mom for 3 years/ Single parent household
Financial Hooks: Medium income!
Major: Global Public Health/Social Work
Minor Hopefully: Women and Gender Studies
I’m really passionate about public health, from my clubs and extracurriculars, I love giving back to the community and learning about how we can solve problems that stunt growth in our community. I hope to focus on diseases that impact other countries with a focus on Africa and women. I also want to participate in Peace Corps in college. My dream is to go into Global Health Law and eventually work for the United Nations. Consider myself and advocate of social justice and a health community.
Boston University: Sargent School of Public Health (4+1 Masters Public Health)
University of Washington: School of Public Health
Georgetown: School of Nursing and Health Science (Accelerated Global Health track)
Northeastern: Bouvé College of Health Sciences (4+1)
NYU: School of Social Work
Scholarships?
Am I a possible candidate for the MLK Scholarship at NYU, Ujima Scholarship at Northeastern, Presidential Scholarship at BU? Anything would be helpful
Classes taken so far
- AP World History
- AP Psychology
- AP Environmental Science
- Honors Algebra 1 and 2
- Honors Biology and Chemistry
- Honors Geometry
Junior Year Schedule (THIS YEAR) I know death
- AP Physics 1
- AP Statistics
- AP US History
- AP Language and Compositon
- AP Bio
- Debate considered honors
- Honors Pre-Cal
Senior Year AP Classes I’m taking (NEXT YEAR)
- AP Literature
- AP Macro
- AP Calc
- AP Gov
- Anatomy and Physiology
- Microbiology
- Debate
Clubs
- Debate since sophomore year (I go to finals pretty often, will go to state this year) (Captain Spot)
- National Honor Society
- Class Vice President
-*** Created a Club known as Girl UP which raises money for the United Nations for Girls all over the world (President)
We’ve done things such as Color Runs, Culture Festivals, Dance Marathons, and even Bake Sales for adolescent girls all over the world. We have made care packages and taken them to women shelters and really try to get involved in the community****
- Participate in food distribution every month
- Future Physicians Club (Secretary); Just a career based club where talk about health professions and visit different
- Youth Community Leader for church; I organize all the community service activities and clothing distributions that youth in the church does.
- Play piano for church every Sunday (fun fact) also play the violin and was in orchestra
- Volunteer work at hospitals over the summer and enrichment programs.
- African American Culture Club
- Run Youtube Channel and a Blog that talk about studying
Letters of Rec I’m getting
-AP Bio Teacher also the sponsor for m club/very close relationship. Georgetown Alumni
-AP Stats Teacher: Also pretty close with
-Debate Coach: Extremely close with
-AP English Teacher: knows my writing and personality
-APUSH teacher (maybe): Great TEACHER one teacher of the Year in Texas
Essays
Topics I’m considering writing about
I really want to reflect my passion about helping the community and my trip to Nigeria. My trip was what really what made me decide that I wanted to pursue the major I wanted to pursue public health with a concentration in social work
Also talk about how Debate has really opened my eyes and really helped me see the world in a different way