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Asian Male (hate how that counts against you...), rising Senior
Pretty Good high School; top 300 in Newsweek's high school thing
SAT: 2340 V:800 M:800 W:800 (essay really screwed me over)
GPA: 4.0
Rank: 1 of 500+
Got into preliminary round of National Merit, don't know about semifinals yet
APs:
Calc AB 5
Chemistry 5
haven't gotten scores, but very confident that they're 5s
Calc BC
Eng Lang
AP US History
SAT IIs:
Bio M: 760
Chinese: 760
Math II: 800
Chemistry: 800
US History: 800
This coming fall, I'm taking Differential Equations with Applications at Johns Hopkins after school.
ECs so far:
Badminton team for 3 years
HOSA for 3 years, president this senior year
FBLA 2 years
NHS 2 years
Key Club 1 year
Jazz Band 3 years
Marching Band 1 year
All County since 7th grade, All State 8th/9th grade
VP of Student Gov Organization
Ranked top 15 in the State Math League
Summers:
(summer after) Freshman Year:Camp Counselor
Sophmore Summer: Volunteered at John Hopkins School of Medicine Division of Nephrology. Did basic cell culture stuff and extracted DNA from mice and then purified it.
This summer: National Institute of Health Intern. Working in NIA LCI. I am creating fusion proteins and then preparing them to be injected into rats for in vivo studies of calcium channels in VSMCs.
Probably safeties:
Cornell
Hopkins(mom is an alum there)
Others:
MIT
Columbia
Princeton
UPenn
Harvard
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