Hey guys, so I did one of these last year as a junior, but things have changed since then and I wanted an updated one. I realize it’s a bit ridiculous to be making a Chance Me three days before results drop, but here I am anyways!
Demographics
Ethnicity: Latino (Mexican)
Sex: Female
School: Large public
State: Texas
Income: 200k
Objective
GPA: 4.0 unweighted
SAT I: 1580 (790 m, 790 cr)
SAT II: 800 Lit, 780 Molecular Biology
AP: 5 Bio, 5 Lang, 5 US History, 5 Psych, 4 Macro, 4 World History, 4 Environmental Sci
Academic Awards: National Merit Semifinalist, National Hispanic Scholar, AP Scholar with Distinction
Senior Course Load: AP Physics 1, AP Calculus AB, AP Statistics, AP Government, AP English Literature, AP French Language, Speech IV (Independent Study)
Subjective
Extracurriculars:
-Speech team; captain, nationally ranked with a title at the National Individual Events Tournament of Champions, highest degree of distinction in the National Speech and Debate Association
-Voelcker Biomedical Research Academy; one of twenty students in my region in a cohort to do research at UT Health, I did two years of HIV research and another year of neural stem cell research
-Culture club; president, celebrates diversity and discusses sociopolitical climate
-National Honor Society
-National French Honor Society
(I have others but they’re insignificant; speech and research are my main focuses)
Summers:
-Yale Young Global Scholars (Biological and Biomedical Sciences)
-Hispanic Scholarship Fund Youth Leadership Institute
-I did my VBRA research during the last three summers
Hooks: URM, Legacy (sort of? My family has very humble beginnings but my brother who is thirteen years my senior is a Yale College and Yale Law School graduate)
What do ya think? I suppose we’ll find out soon.