Chance me for Yale RD 2023

jesslp0912
Sat, 05 Jan 2019 22:24:52 +0000

General Info:

Race: African American
Gender: Female
Geographic location: I used to live in Tennessee for 9-10 grade, then moved to Canada (Greater Toronto Area) for grades 11 and 12 because of parent’s work
Intended Major: Biomedical Engineering

Stats:
At my school in the US, I had a 4.0 GPA unweighted, school did not provide me with weighted GPA
class rank was 3/117 (magnet school)
At my school that I am attending in Canada, my average is 95%
class rank is 8/400 (public school)
note: I am a US citizen living abroad, not international

Standardized tests:
ACT: 32 (M: 28 R:34 E:35 S:29) , superscore 33 (M:28 R:36 E: 35 S:33)

Courses:
At my school in the US, there is no AP or IB. We could only take honors, I took honors in all classes that it was available for
9th Grade (in TN)
-French 1
-Honors World Geography
-Honors Geometry
-Honors English 9
-PE
-Symphonic Band
-Honors Biology
-Seminar (our school has this as a required course based upon the Paideia Curriculum)

10th Grade (in TN)
-Honors Chemistry
-Honors US Government and Civics
-Honors English 10
-Honors French 2
-Symphonic Band
-Honors Algebra 2
-Seminar

My school in Canada does not offer AP or IB, so I took all of my classes on the University Track, which is the highest level. Also in Canada, students take Bio, Chem, and Physics for two years starting in Grade 11, so that’s why I took them again except in Grade 12 I chose to forego taking Physics again to get an intro in CS.
Grade 11
-Music
-Repertoire
-Biology
-Functions
-Advanced Functions (like precalculus in the US)
-English
-Physics
-Chemistry
-Core French

Grade 12 (in Canada) all courses here are university track also
-Intro to Computer Science
-Calculus and Vectors
-Biology
-Chemistry
-Co-op (this is a 2-credit course that I do at a hospital in the Outpatient Neurology department, I get to shadow neurologists, help in physiotherapy classes, observe in the surgery ward, etc. I will have 220+ hours by the end of the semester)
-World History
-English

Extracurriculars:

in TN
Earth Club
Young Democrats Club
Symphonic Band
Carnegie Wind Ensemble
2017 First in the east of TN on oboe
2017 2nd in the state of TN on oboe
Was able to play at Carnegie Hall with the band at my school
I was the only 9th-grade oboist accepted to TN All State-East in 2016
JV and Varsity Volleyball Team

in Canada
Model UN (grade 11)
Youth in Action (grade 11)
Science Council Executive
President of HOSA chapter at my school
STEM Club
Student Activities Council
Writer’s Guild
Senior Concert Band (section leader)
invited to study with the Associate Principal oboe of a major orchestra in Toronto (studying with him now)
member of a pre-professional wind ensemble in Toronto that has been invited to play at the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in Spain this year
Section leader for wind ensemble in Toronto last year
Honor band for musicians in my area last year

Volunteering/Work Experience:
I volunteered at a library and a food bank in TN, right now I am volunteering at an animal shelter where I live in Canada.
I am not allowed to work in Canada due to the type of visa that I have.

Recommendations:
My Grade 11 Core French Teacher: she really helped me with acclimating to the new school system in Canada, she is like a friend to me and is a French professor also; received the top mark in French at my school which was in her class
Grade 11 Chem teacher: also like a friend to me, was always in her room for chem during lunch and after school
Counselor Rec: I helped her a lot with students applying to the US for college in this way we got to know each other better; I read the recommendation and I thought it was good

Essays:
Common app essay I wrote about how I thought I would lose my sense of self by moving from TN which was all I had ever known, but now that I live in Canada I have gained a stronger sense of who I am
Why Yale: wrote about how I admire the liberal arts education at Yale because for my first two years in high I was under a curriculum in high school that was liberal arts also, also how I admire the research opportunities and shopping periods for classes at Yale
Yale supplements: I wrote about how a topic that is important to me is equality, and a topic that interests/intellectually exciting to me is how producers use all these nuances to create their music, and how the complexity in how the music is made differs from genre to genre
For the Yale engineering essay, I wrote about how I gained my interest for BME by watching my favorite anime called Fullmetal Alchemist when I was younger and also research that has come out in the medical community, and I also highlighted how the Yale campus can give me research opportunities, etc.

Thanks for taking the time to read this! I have read so many so I finally decided to make my own. Good luck to everyone in your college admissions process!