please chance an anxious junior for (hopefully) t20s :(

weishenme
Sat, 16 May 2020 06:30:17 +0000

demographics:

asian american (chinese)

female

first generation college

high income

public school

small town in washington, not many opportunities without 2+ hours commute

intended major: mostly undecided but hoping to go into biomedical research (conflicted bc im also interested in a few other things but science major for sure)

academics:

gpa: 3.96/4.00 (unweighted) 4.46/5.00 (weighted)

rank: i think top 5%? & my school calculates unweighted only

haven’t taken the sat yet, but aiming for at least high 1400s

freshman year: ap environmental science (4), ap human geography (5)

sophomore year: ap physics 1 (3 rip), ap psych (5), ap micro (5); also took honors lang, ap macro (didn’t take test) and ib math sl
-junior year: took tests for ap physics 2, ap bio, ap lang, ap calc ab and ap chinese (fluent and not taking class); also taking ib math y2 and ib hota
-senior year intending to take ap chem, ap calc bc, ap art, ap lit, ib hota y2, ib anthro and possibly ap stats

awards: not many and both in junior year

scholastic art competition silver key

second place in state science fair in my division (and hoping to refine my project to submit to some research papers this summer, but not really optimistic about it

extracurriculars: (in order of importance)

cofounded + president of my school’s environmental club (since sophomore year)

involvement in local sunrise movement hub, intending to found art team in my hub and create strike circle at my school

part of national honor society

volunteered at food bank freshman-sophomore year + various other volunteer experience including at science summer camp last summer

honestly i’m really not sure about my chances, but my dream schools are brown (i really love their open curriculum), or uc berkeley (political acitivism is important to me and bay area <3). i’m also interested in ucla, columbia, and cornell to name some others. feel free to ask questions! just an anxious junior questioning my “accomplishments” after being rejected from an internship