I am currenty a sophomore at the University of Connecticut (BME Major) with a dream of tranferring to an ivy league school, with Penn being a school that has particularly caught my eye. I’m going to keep this short and sweet, so let me know what my chances of getting into an ivy league school are.
GRADES/SCORES
-HS GPA of 3.7 from a generally rigorous high school
-College GPA:
-3.92 first semester (one A-)
-4.0 second semester
-3.77 third semester (one A-, one B+)
-ACT: 34
-I am an AP scholar
-I was a national merit commended scholar
EC:
-participated in a competitive REU at UT Austin during the summer after my freshman year (10/350+ applications)
-work in process of being published
-I conduct research at a fairly well known lab, and will be published in the spring edition of the Journal for Regenerative Engineering and Translational Health
-I write MatLab image noise filtering guidebooks for graduate students at UT Arlington
-Several honors societies
-only my noteable college ECs are listed. I am also a soccer refferee, I interned at Yale-New Haven Hospital for two summers during high school, I have had my bouts with entrepreneurial ventures, I trade stocks and am a member of investment clubs.
DETAILS:
I have a quite unorthodox life tale, that I am sure will stand out in essays
I have a good recommendations from a HS teacher, the principal investigator for one of my labs, and a college professor.
The labs I have worked in are affiliated with leaders in the field. Think pioneers and top 40 under 40 scientists.