I am a high school junior in the IB diploma program. I’m planning to major in molecular biology or environmental science with a possible double major or minor in political science, but I am very undecided on my major atm.
Reaches: UC Berkeley, USC, Vanderbilt, UChicago, Northwestern, Swarthmore, UCLA, UC Irvine, Columbia, suggestions are welcome!
Matches: I don’t really know, does anyone have suggestions?
Safeties: AU, UAB
SAT I (breakdown): 1570 (800M, 770R/W)
ACT (breakdown): 33 (33E, 32M, 33R, 35S)
SAT II: planning to take Math II, Chemistry, and Biology E/M over the summer
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.94
Weighted GPA: 4.42
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5/595
AP (place score in parenthesis): AP Calculus AB (4); AP European History (3); AP Computer Science Principles (3); AP Calculus BC (jr yr); AP Chemistry (jr yr); APUSH (jr yr)
IB (place score in parenthesis): IB History of the Americas HL; IB English HL; IB Spanish SL; IB Biology HL; IB World Religions SL; IB Math HL – haven’t taken these exams yet
Senior Year Course Load: IB History HL; IB English HL; IB Biology HL; IB Math HL; AP Government; AP Computer Science A; AP Statistics (may be replaced with Advanced Debate)
Major Awards: a lot of state science olympiad medals, attended national science olympiad multiple times (hoping to medal this year), a couple of state science fair awards, most probably National Merit semifinalist (my NMSC index should be high enough for my state but we’ll see… it’s 219 and I live in Alabama)
Extracurriculars: Varsity Science Olympiad (coach middle schoolers too), Science Fair (only 1 year), Alabama Junior Academy of Science (Vice President; President next year), founded my own water quality monitoring club (President), FBLA (chaired a committee for 1 year), Quiz Bowl (Captain) National Honor Society
Job/Work Experience: getting a job at Kumon this summer; two summer internships
Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at my local library and local hospital
Summer Activities: Internship at Auburn University lab (conducted my own research project; summer before 10th grade), Internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center lab (summer before 11th grade), getting a job at Kumon this summer, planning to start tutoring elementary and middle school students over the summer, may be doing another internship at Auburn University this summer
State: Alabama
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian American (Indian)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket Range: 190-200k
Hooks: n/a
My recommendations should be pretty good–the teachers I am planning on asking like me and know me pretty well, I have a pretty close relationship with my counselor as well
I’ve been told I’m good at writing so hopefully my essays will be good as well.