On the right track?

bakere19
Mon, 01 Aug 2011 10:17:26 +0000

I’m a rising junior, and am toying with the idea of applying to Harvard. To be clear, I’m not interested in Harvard because of the name, but because of the fantastic programs they offer and the chance to work with top-notch professors. Can someone take a look and let me know if I’m in the ballpark thus far? I’ll give as much info as I can. Thanks.

Ethnicity - Hispanic
Location - CT
Prospective Major - Biology (premed)
School Type: Public, one of best in state, best in area
GPA: 5.723/6 - school only does weighted (a 6 is impossible to get b/c certain required classes are not at honors/AP level, GPA is effectively out of about 5.8-5.85)
Rank: school doesn’t release rank, but most likely top 5%

SAT: taking in Oct
PSAT - 222 as a sophomore, taking again as a junior
SATII - US History - 720, will take more
AP Scores - AP US History (5)

Classes: (Note: School has a partnership with the University of Connecticut, so in lieu of many AP courses we have UCONN courses that you get Uconn credit for. These are denoted with a *)

Freshman: (No AP allowed, all classes at highest level offered)
-Honors Biology
-Honors Geometry
-Honors Algebra 2
-Honors English 9
-Honors Spanish 2
-Honors Geography (half year)
-Pre-AP History of American Politics (half year)
-Health (req)
-PE (req)

Sophomore: (only 1 AP offered, had an exception made for Uconn physics,all classes at highest level offered)
-Guitar (req music)
-MS Office (req computer class)
-AP US History*
-Advanced Pre-Calc
-Honors English 10
-Honors Spanish 3
-Advanced Physics*/UCPHYS 1201Q&1202Q
-PE (req)

Junior: (all classes at highest level offered)
-AP Calculus BC*
-AP Statistics *
-AP Chemistry*
-Honors Spanish 4
-Honors English 11
-AD World Civilizations/AP Economics/AP Euro <- scheduling difficulties, so I’m taking one of these 3, just haven’t figured out which fits in my schedule best
-possible AP Psych self-study

Note on classes and grades: I freshman year averaging 1-2 B+ a semester, the second semester of my sophomore year fixed that to a 4.0, so biggest upward trend possible.

ECs

-Crew - made varsity as a freshman, will be varsity all 4 years

Model UN (9,10,11,12)
-Student Congress - elected representative
-Ski Club
-Hockey (only did as a freshman)
-Spanish Honor Society
-Mu Alpha Theta
-Volunteered at charity bike ride - 3 days overnight
-Starting volunteer work at local hospital this week
-Founded a small non-profit organization that sends money for books and supplies to a library that I helped build in rural Panama. I work closely with 3 people in the US and 2 in Panama.

Other: I speak Spanish fairly fluently, but not a native speaker.

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