Chance Me

Ontaco
Sun, 05 Jun 2011 17:38:47 +0000

I know I posted this under the general college admissions forum, but I figured since I really want to get into BU I would ask the people that hang around on the BU page for their opinions. So how do I look?

Where I plan on applying:

I am intending on being pre-med with a major in something like biomed.

BU(First choice/Early decision)

ACADEMIA:

All my classes are AP/Honors except for French which I took honors Freshman year and the C2 sophomore and junior year. I dropped it for senior year.

Overall GPA: About 3.6 out of 5 Weighted
My School does not rank. But it is really competitive, so my GPA is above average, but not by much.

SAT Critical Reading: 670
SAT Math: 650
SAT Writing: 620
Total: 1940

SAT 2:
BIO: 700

Just took math 2 and Chem. Probably going to take history

I plan on taking the SAT again. That was my first try

AP Courses:
Biology (Last Year)
English Lang (This Year)
AB Calc (Next Year)
Psychology(Next Year)
Physics (Next Year)
US Gov. (Next Year)

3 letters of recommendation (AP English Teacher, Band Director(has known me since 6th grade), guidance counselor)

EXTRACURRICULARS:

NHS member 2 years, I may also be an officer, but I need to double check to see if it is an actual officer position or more of a joke(punishment officer).

140 hours of Hospital Volunteer work
Cardiology Clinic, did everything from filing to translating.

This summer working in the OR of another hospital.

Also, i’m in the Concert band in my school I play Tenor Sax and i’m in the upper jazz band of my school as first tenor.

I’m also in JSA(junior statesmen of America).

4 year member of Model UN, won numerous awards at many different conferences.

3 year member of Mock Trial, Captain senior year

I’m on this thing in my school its called team 11:11, we are raising money to send a child with a life threating illness to camp. It is through the make a wish foundation.

HOOKS:

My family immigrated to the US 16 years ago from Russia. So i basically grew up here. I speak Russian fluently, I am no longer a Russian citizen, just a naturalized American citizen.

I have had 2 step-fathers in my life(still with the second one).

I will not be applying for financial aid (step-dad’s a doctor)

Also, my Step-fathers sister’s husband is a professor at BU, and said he would go to my interview with me when I get one. Does him doing that/ him working at BU help me at all?

Other Random Stuff:
I got a 3 on AP Bio, and im waiting for my AP English exam.
My essay is about working on a cardiology consult team while I was working last summer. We saw a patient that was released from surgery and when we went to see her she started to crash. Long story short I stood and watched while the doctors and nurses worked to save her. It was after that I realized why medicine was so important to me, and why i really wanted to work in medicine.