SAT Subject Tests: 800 Math II/800 Chemistry/800 Biology M
Extracurricular:
Basketball (4 years/2 years varsity)
Volleyball (4 years/3 years varsity)
School’s Math Team Captain
Co-president of financial club
National Honors Society = 2 years
Volunteer/Work
Research Assistant at Nationwide Children’s Hospital (2 summers/1 paper published on mir675’s effect on DUX4 expression)
Local representative for a new app called Point (basically a social media for charity, feel free to look it up)
Volunteer at local nursing home (4 years)
** Due to the various clubs I’m apart of, hours are also gained
Courseload:
Freshman: No APs, but took hardest classes available
Sophomore: AP Statistics (5), AP US History (4), AP Calc AB (5), other various classes (all honors)
Junior: AP Micro/Macro Econ, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Calc BC, AP Lit, AP Physics C: Mech
Senior: Since no math or science courses are available, I will be taking Calc III and Physics E/M at Ohio State University during the school year, AP Government, Discrete Math, Online English CP 12 (weakest of my courses, but necessary for my schedule)
You have very impressive stats and ECs, and you should be a serious candidate.
One question…how much can your parents pay? Those top schools meet full need which is great for familes with a low EFC but can be pretty harsh on families with a high EFC.
I wish I could say that I was, but my PI initially propelled the topic, and he had already done a lot of the work. So we agreed that he would be the first author.
Oh that’s alright. At least you published and that in itself is an amazing feat. It serves well as an EC and your grades and test scores are good too. I think you are the right type of applicant for those schools and are the kind they want. Good luck! Just gotta nail those essays now
Clean up the English skills: “Due to the various clubs I’m apart of, hours are also gained”
“a part (a piece of)” vs. "apart (separation). Most of these schools like people that write well.
Wow, funny you say that, because I just copied this template from another post on here and I forgot to remove that line! It applies nonetheless. Just know that my grammar is nothing like that
Where is your home state and are you applying to engineering? These would affect your chance at UMich significantly. If you are from OOS applying to CoE at UMich, it will be a low reach. The median ACT for admission was 33 last year that includes in state students.
UMich CoE would be a very high match to low reach for you from OOS due to competitiveness. Your ACT is near the 75th percentile while 33 was the median last year.
Based on my son’s classmates admissions, looks like Penn, OSU, UMich look like soft reach to match and MIT, Harvard, Caltech High reach but very possible with your credentials !
