Chances please? I will reply, I promise

DarkKnight666
Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:06:10 +0000

Chances as a somewhat belated Christmas Present?



Ethnicity: Asian

college plans: pre-med and biomedical engineering

home state: Maryland

Full-IB diploma
GPA: 3.83 (UW) / 4.55(W)
SAT: 630 CR, 730 W, 770 M
Rank: 27/412
SAT II: Math 2 (770), Bio-E (680)*
APs: Calc AB (4), Physics B (4)
IBs: French B SL (4)

ECs:
Swim team: clubs and school (all throughout high school)
Science Academic Team: 12th grade
Academic Team: 11-12th grade
National Honor Society: 11-12
Science National Honor Society: 11-12
National Math Honor Society: 11-12
National English Honor Society: 12**
National Society of High School Scholars
French club
Chinese School (2008 graduate)
Clarinet and Alto Sax: since 4th grade
Tri-M Music Honor Society: was nominated but induction ceremony is not until April

Awards:
Highest Honor roll award (from my school): all throughout high school
Johns Hopkins CTY state award: 7th grade

Work Experience:
Internship at Qiagen: 10th grade
Internship at NCI: 11th grade

Misc:
Did a poster on my research at NCI and presented it during a convention held at the Bethesda campus

Used that same research and wrote a report which was entered in the Intel STS

IB extended essay on ethics of human embryonic stem cell research

Classes:
all honor classes except the electives, which don’t have any levels
-IB English HL: A
-IB Math HL: B***
-IB Chem HL: A
-IB French SL: A
-AP Physics B: A
-IB Comp Sci SL: B

Senior Year (doing pretty well so far):
-IB English HL
-IB Math HL
-IB Chem HL
-IB History of Americas
-IB Theory of Knowledge
-AP Physics C***
-Student Service Learning
-Concert Band

Community Service:
biggest ones are: SAT Math teacher and SAT CR & W Teacher’s Assistant

many other small ones:
-Science Fair judge
-Carnival set up
-Chinese School service

*Due to my school’s weird scheduling system, I could not fit an AP Bio class in my schedule and IB Bio isn’t enough for SAT II. So I studied the whole curriculum by myself (yes this is true), and my teacher told me a 680 is very respectable especially since I studied independently. I will also be taking the AP Bio test in May 2010, studying on my own again.

**The National English Honor Society was not available in my school until my senior year

***IB Math HL is, according to my teacher, the hardest math class offered in the county and also possibly THE hardest overall class in the county. Same goes for AP physics C, but it’s probably not as hard as IB Math HL.

Schools:
-UPenn
-Wash. U. in St. Louis
-UChicago
-Duke
-Johns Hopkins
-UVA
-UNC Chapel Hill
-Michigan
-Cornell
-Emory
-Northwestern
-U. of Wash.
-UMD, college park