<p>Well, I didn’t want to like blend in with the crowd, but really I’m asking what everyone else is. I’m applying ED to PLME, and I’m applying RD to NEOUCOM (like 3 people a year go there from my school…), HPME, VCU’s GMed, that Caltech UCSD thing… as well as Harvard, MIT, UPenn, Duke, and Stanford. Here’s my 411:
oh ya, i go to a public school in OH, not a magnet nor one that sends many students to ivies, but one kid last year went to Columbia. and my brother is going to VCU’s Gmed prog this year as a freshman.</p>
<p>Oh-so-important ethnicity: Asian American… Indian Subcont. (omg oh noes! another azn… woe to me lol j/k but i do know how much of a disadvantage it can put me at)</p>
<p>GPA: 4.5 Weighted GPA, I imagine 4.0 Unweighted
Rank: 2 out of like 250+, forget the number.
I was #1 for like the first 2.5 years of my high school career
Classes: my rep… starting with freshman year: I had an A or A+ average in every class, except B+ ave. in AP Chem, and B ave. in Euro 2nd semester
freshman year:
Adv. Science 1 (basically bs physical science, had to for the OGT… :-\ )
Adv. English 9
AP US Hist. (got a 3
)
Adv. Science 2 (basic Bio)
Latin 1
French 3
Adv Algebra (the only freshman adv. math class we had)
sophomore year:
Chem
AP Government (got a 5)
Adv. English 10
Latin 3 (took latin 2 over the summer)
French 4
Adv. Geometry
junior year:
AP Euro (4)
AP Chem (5)
AP Bio (taking this test senior year, after i finish the IB portion of the class)
IB/AP Latin 4 (taking the tests senior year)
AP English Lang (4)
Analysis of Functions (basically Pre-calc and trig)
and I took Understanding Music Post-Secondary… My majors in college will probably be chem and music
senior year (aka this year!):
AP English Lit
IB Bio HL 2
IB Chem HL 2
IB/AP Latin 5
AP Physics
AP Calc… i’m taking BC even though my school doesn’t offer it.</p>
<p>ECs:
whew, where do i start?
Soccer (varsity this year… playing because i love soccer)
Tennis (varsity for 3 years, will be captain this year… we were quarterfinalists 2 years ago in the local High-Q competition and semifinalists last year)
Academic Team (varsity for all 4 years, captain for 2)
oh ya, National Honor Society (inducted as junior, earliest we can at our school)
Math Team (top 5 for past 2 years, member for all 4 years of school)
Student council (active for 4 years, communications officer junior year and VP senior year)
Senior Volunteer at local hospital
Shadowing: Gen Surgeon (for a week, about 50 hours?), Radiologist (for 5 hours), Internist (for 10 hours)
Doing my third year of cancer research on pancreatic and skin-based cancers with biology professor at local university. <– that’s what I love… i’m doing my science fair project this year over cancer… and i could see myself writing essays about it too.
Played Piano for 12 years… senior-most student at my studio
Cabinet member of School Cheerblock Committee
Summer Intern at Air Force Institute of Technology ANT Center at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base this past summer
Summer before, took AP Comp Sci A at Northwestern Equinox Summer Prog
Summer before that, took Latin 2 Independent Study</p>
<p>Test scores (of course):
SAT - 2260:
800 M
750 CR
710 W (i got a 730 first time, but i got a 9 on essay second time instead of 10 the first)
SAT Subjects:
Chem 800
Math 2 800
(taking Latin this fall before app time!)
PSAT - 221:
80 M
72 CR
69 W
(Commended, i’ll get the Semi-finalist stuff some time soon)</p>
<p>I think that’s about it… got Outstanding Student Awards in 3 classes Freshman year (Latin, Science 2, and APUSH), and 4 classes sophomore year (Latin, APGov, Geometry, and French). I was top Math Team scorer in my Math class for the past 3 years for our school math team.</p>
<p>I’ll add more as I remember them :)</p>
<p>Thanks In Advance!</p>