<p>Objective:
SAT (best combo, took it twice): M - 650, CR - 750, W - 780, total score - 2180
Didn’t take ACT
SAT II: Math I - 670, Chemistry - 600, U.S. History - 690
Rank: 1/36
No APs or IBs, dual enrollment in junior and senior year English, U.S. history, economics, government
GPA: 4.2 weighted, ~3.9 unweighted
No special math tests or anything</p>
<p>Subjective:
Essays: Pretty good stuff!
Teacher recs: EXCELLENT (they love me)
Counselor rec: EXCELLENT (she loves me)
No supplementary materials
Hook: URM (duh), research experience (see below)</p>
<p>Personal:
Location: Texas
High school type: small Christian
Ethnicity: Mexican (USA/Mexico dual citizen)
Gender: male</p>
<p>Other:
Extracurriculars (main ones): President of student council, editor of yearbook, volunteer at clinic, volunteer at church, Beta Club, NHI, did some research on DNA methylation and its relation to leukemia at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX
Awards: National Merit Semifinalist (on apps, now finalist), National Hispanic Scholar, Most Distinguished Senator at 2008 TX LDZ, some school awards, and probably some other stuff I can’t remember
Prospective career choice: something in the sciences for sure, leaning very heavily towards medicine
Prospective majors: neuroscience, philosophy, biochemistry, biomedical engineering, some others</p>
<p>Accepted: MIT, Columbia (unofficially - “likely letter”), Wash U in St Louis, Texas, U Chicago, Wesleyan (in Connecticut)
Waiting: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford
Rejected: none so far…</p>
<p>I just copy-pasted this from another thread, didn’t feel like formatting.</p>