Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Intended Major
Stats:
ACT: 30 (low I know this is my red flag)
GPA: 3.98 uw (weighted gpa has an upward trend, 4.0, 4.3, 4.38, 4.6 for all fur years)
4 years track and cross country runner (junior year - second-team all-star and senior year - first-team all-star for track
2-year swimmer (quit after sophomore year)
Founder and Leader of my school’s medical service project (serve off-campus at a hospital) I plan and coordinate all activities
Hospital Volunteer for 2 years now (I work in the emergency room as a nurse’s assistant and train all new volunteers)
Night for the Fight Team - captain for 2 years and participant for 3 (organized a team to participate in a service event that raises money for cancer)
Relay for Life - 4-year participant
Teens for Life - 4-year participant
Peers as Leaders - 2-year participant (lead school retreats for underclassmen and assist with welcoming freshman to high school)
Volunteered at a nursing home freshman year with the PT’s and Nurses
Physics Peer Tutor (for honors and CP)
Job Shadow Experience - shadowed a neurologist at the hospital I work at and shadowed an orthopedic surgeon that worked in a club-foot clinic in India
MedEx 3-year participant (club that discusses opportunities in the medical field)
- was recently a guest speaker to talk about my service project and the independent work I do at the hospital
Job experience: lifeguard in the summer before senior year and hostess during senior year
AP’s: Lit, Bio, Calc BC, Psych (I have A’s in all of them right now)
Honors Classes: Chem, Physics, English II, English III, Pre Calc, Alg I, Alg II, Anatomy & Physiology (A’s in all of them)
Rec Letters:
Honors Physics Teacher: she really liked me because I struggled a lot at first and failed the first 2 tests and then I began to schedule regular meetings with her and worked very hard. I ultimately got an A in the class
Honors English Teacher: Liked me as well. I always made an effort to meet with her to go over mistakes I made on tests
Additional (Head of Volunteering at the Hospital I work at): My boss at the hospital who has known me very well for 2 years. She approved the partnership between my school and the hospital so that I could start my service project. She often said that she wished she could clone me haha! (my counselor told me her letter was very very good)