ironmetal250

All right, so in my last chances thread, I had info flying everywhere in multiple posts, so hopefully this one is easier to read.

Stats:
• SAT: CR: 670 , M: 720 , W: 720
• SAT II: Math II: 750, Chemistry: 780 , Ecological Biology: 750
• ACT: Didn't Take
• GPA: UW: 3.95000 , W: 4.69000
• Rank: County doesn't rank (In top 1% of my class of 352, if I had to estimate)
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP - [5: Chem, Calc AB, English Lang, World, Environmental Science]; [4: U.S. Government]; [Not yet taken: Calc BC, Bio, Literature]
• Senior Courses: AP Literature, AP Bio, AP Calc BC, NIH Internship

Subjective
• Essays: Good to Great (One about my first time crabbing, another about helping my family deal with domestic violence or my speech impediment (I still can't decide))
• Teacher Recs: Outstanding (One from math teacher for both precalculus and calc AB, one from AP chem teacher who's also NHS sponsor)
• Counselor Rec: Outstanding (also very close to my counselor)
• Supplement Information (Y/N): Yes, scientific abstract
• Interview: Not sure if I'll get one (I am having an off campus Bowdoin interview at least)
• Hook (recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Did research (my own personal research project) at the NIH in what's considered one of the premier science education programs in the country. Concerns Apoptotic CD4 T-Cells and HIV if you must know. Also I'm building my own boat.

Personal
• Location: Maryland, Montgomery County
• High School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Greek
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: Not really sure what I qualify as, my parents just got separated and my mother (whom I live with) is unemployed... I guess lowest?
• Applied for Financial Aid: Yes

Other
• Extracurricular:
*President of NHS
*Student Academy of Science (10-12)
*Mathematics League (9-10)
*Environmental Club (10)
*Karen Noonan Environmental Education Program (2 night program where I learned the actual impact of human activity on the Chesapeake bay, wrote one of my essays on it)
*Montgomery County Teen Court Juror (11) (Was a juror in the rulings of minor and drug offenses of teenagers... conducted cross examinations and jury deliberations)
*Helped SGA with art and posters (9, 10)
*Building a 12' fishing boat (from four sheets of plywood)
*Worked for two years at the local diner as a busboy
*Research internship at the NIH... sponsored by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute... one of 23 students in Montgomery County chosen (only for MCPS students)
*Member of Immunology interest group at the NIH
*Attended Wednesday Afternoon Lecture Series at the NIH (and met a Yale med school professor who was presenting)
*Seminar on Toxicology at George Washington University
*115 hours of community service
*Attended F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Conference 2006-2007 for creative writing (one of two students in my school for that year)

• Awards:
*National Merit Commended Scholar
*Rensselaer medalist
*AP Scholar with Distinction
*Maryland Distinguished Scholar Honorable Mention


APPLYING TO:
Yale (Restrictive Early Action)
Columbia
Bowdoin
Williams
Colby
University of Maryland - College Park