Hi,
I am a high school senior at an NJ Magnet School thinking about applying to UMich RD. Could someone please tell me what my chances are?
Since my freshman year of high school, I have studied at my high school, a local community college, and my state school. My high school offers college courses through the local community college instead of APs. I have taken 22 undergraduate courses and 1 graduate course, in total. This is the most coursework that any student in my class has undertaken.
Personal Info:
Ethnicity: white
Not low income
Applying to be a psych or neuroscience major
Stats:
GPA: 3.96 (high school), 3.93 (community college), and 4.0 (state school - undergrad/grad GPA combined) note all GPAs are unweighted and out of a 4.0 scale
ACT: 33 (36 reading, 31 math, 30 science, 34 english, 7 writing)
SAT II: Bio M: 780
ECs:
- Class President at my high school (4 years)
- President of high school NHS chapter - created my school’s first peer mentorship program (highlighted a lot in my essays)
- Published staff writer at a teen health magazine with tens of thousands of readers.
- Summer scholar and visiting student for three years at state school. I completed a minor (5 classes) in psychology and took one graduate neuroendocrinology/behavioral neuroscience course.
- Teaching assistant at state school for two semesters
- Curriculum advisor at state school for the same class I TAed for. Helped replace outdated course materials and redesign the course. (both 5 and 6 are positions held normally by grad students)
- I completed a medical research internship at Stanford Medical School. Undertook a summer’s worth of research and I am still working with my lab remotely.
- Science Bowl Team member at my high school
- International Youth Neuroscience leadership
- MUN club founder and president at my high school
- Primary author on a research proposal for a graduate-level Behavioral Neuroscience research project.
Letters of Rec:
- Graduate neuroendocrinology professor - 10/10
- Research advisor at Stanford - 10/10
- Gen Bio II professor - 9/10
I would love to attend UMich, however, I am not sure if it is a realistic prospect. I welcome any thoughts on this matter.
Thanks in advance.