Here are some stats.
GPA: High 80s to low 90s? Not particularly sure what my GPA is, but I recognize that my grades are sub par.
Currently a junior in a Canadian High School
Recently won a regional Neuroscience Competition. Nationals in 2 weeks.
I plan on doing a research co-op over the summer related to Neuroscience
I also plan on writing a book introducing some unique perspectives to existing topics and scenarios.
I am a lonely person, although relatively nice and assertive about my opinions
I spend most of my days thinking about the universe (However cliche that may appear) and hardly care much for school… (Yes, I know, not particularly helpful. I blame the absence of free will and the reflexive response from my amygdala to the thought of teachers talking on and on about a subject I could learn in half the time with some review here and there. Its not really conclusive that free will is nonexistent though I like to joke that it is)
Am currently in several ECs, one of which is A Capella (I thoroughly enjoy singing)
In the process of starting up an event called Relay for Life at our School with some friends to raise 18000 dollars for Cancer in October
I want to go to Harvard because I feel that it would attract people who would make me feel accepted and appreciated, and challenge me mentally and physically to be my best. The people I know are all very nice, but they have no real opinions on the things that I think matter, but what do I know…
Currently completing something called a SHSM (Specialist High Skills Major) in Health and Science
Taking 3 AP Classes at the moment, and I plan on taking 5 next year
Havent done the SATs yet, still deciding if I want to go to the States for education
I would need financial aid for education. Im not particularly poor, but not all that rich either.
Some topics I find interesting:
- What makes people happy? (It’s something I’ve thought about through my various stages of maturation over the past couple of years. I think it is an important question to answer from a societal viewpoint as we attempt to achieve what is thought of as utopia (Although we have no idea what that is, either) and how people would fit in with it.)
- Birds (I don’t know why, but I find myself mesmerized by their intelligence and patterns of flight. Just today on my daily jog I spent 20 minutes staring at a gaggle of geese and pondering consciousness from the perspective of other animals as well as behaviour. I can see myself being an avid bird watcher in the future)
- Consciousness and Meaning (I am curious about why humans search for meaning so often. I admit, this one is a bit selfish a I often feel either rather empty or rather full. I self diagnose as a cyclomaniac (Someone who has bouts of depression and mania, which is excessive euphoria - Haha)
- Human Interaction and the Brain (Why wouldn’t this be interesting. It allows me to look at people in a million different ways and never cease to be fascinated)
- Why does music make us feel? (This one is a good one, which I can also tie into linguistics and the expression of emotion as well as mental illness and disabilities relating to emotion etc…)
I can go on and on, but you get it, I like to ask interesting questions and ponder existence.
I love being alive, and want to explore the universe some more. You can be honest with me as to whether or not a school so focused on its image as such would let me in. Even so, I know that no matter what path I go down on, I will never stop learning and questioning everything, and that is enough to keep me stimulated.
I think that I am an interesting person with a unique perspective that would be valuable to fields dealing with ideas and such. Tell me what you think?