I am a freshman with the highest GPA in my class with a 4.57 (4.0 unweighted). I want to major in Biology and minor in Political Science. The ultimate goal is to become an Emergency Physician.
My current schedule, with grades in parentheses:
Pre-AP World History Honors (98 A+)
Research Biology Honors (99 A+)
Algebra 2/ Trigonometry Honors (96 A) It’ll go up to a 97 soon, though this makes no difference.
English 9 Honors (98 A+)
Latin 3 (100 A+)
Introduction to Business and Marketing (100 A+)
Health and PE 9 (100 A+)
I’ll be taking Math Analysis (Honors Pre-calculus with an introduction to calculus) over the summer. All Honors and DE( Dual Enrollment) classes get a 0.5 GPA bump, and AP Classes get a 1.0 GPA bump. My projected GPA is 4.98 (4.0 unweighted).
Over the next three years, I’ll be taking:
10th Grade 11th Grade 12th Grade
AP World History AP US History AP US Gov/ AP Comparative Gov
Research Chemistry Honors Research Physics Honors AP Physics C
AP Calculus BC Multivariable Calculus DE Online DE Differential Equations and Linear Algebra
English 10 Honors AP Language and Composition AP Literature and Composition
AP Biology AP Chemistry Independent Science Research DE
AP Statistics AP Macro/Microeconomics Survey of African History DE
Health and PE 10/ Driver’s Ed AP Psychology AP Human Geography
Before anyone asks, yes I am genuinely interested in all of these classes, and yes it has been approved by my guidance counselor. Online DE Differential Equations and Linear Algebra is not offered at my school. I will run out of math classes before senior year, so I will dual enroll with the local community college to take the classes, hopefully for college credit.
My projected stats based on my PSAT scores are:
-SAT Math: 760
-SAT Reading/ Writing: 780
-ACT Composite: 34
-5’s projected by school for all AP tests, except for a 4 for BC Calc.
-Taking SAT Subject Tests in (all scores are projected):
-French (without listening, I’m half deaf) 800
- Latin 800
-US History 760
-World History 770
-Math Level 2 770
- Biology M 780
-Chemistry 790
-Physics 770
Awards as of right now: Presidential Award for Educational Excellence in Elementary and Middle School, Girl Scout Bronze, Silver, and Gold (in progress) Awards, 6 nationally recognized Latin awards, and Foreign Language Student of the Class of 2021.
My extra-curricular activities are: school theater (to date two productions in high school, 7 before then) Partner’s to Students with Disabilities Club, FBLA, GSA, founder of an ASL club in middle school (there is one at my high school, but I for some odd reason do not qualify to join), and Girl Scouts since I was 5.
I understand that I need to have leadership positions and more activities. I’ll add more extra-curricular activities next year, but this year I had to lay low. Extremely long story short: I was being attacked by MS-13, so I moved, and for this year I had to keep a low profile so they wouldn’t find me.
My counselor advised me that Ivy League schools look for something extraordinary outside of your academics, whether that be your circumstances or your extra-curricular activities. I’m deaf in my right ear, caused by the cancer-causing, eventually fatal nerve disease that I have. It causes me not to be able to walk occasionally and toys with my senses. Some days I can barely see, or I wake up and can’t hear anything. It’s extremely weird. I was born with a slight hearing loss in my right ear and grew up with deaf twins as best friends. Since I could never hear what adults were saying perfectly, I preferred the way that I communicated with my friends: ASL. I consider ASL to be my first language, since when I think, the thoughts appear in my head in ASL with an interpreter. I learned English, French, Latin, and Spanish in that order. I speak all of those languages fluently, except Spanish, in which I am about half fluent. I went to middle school where most people spoke just Spanish, so I picked it up. I saw on another thread not to talk about mental illness so I would definitely leave that out of my essay. My guidance counselor said that these things might help. Criticisms, questions, and suggestions welcome.
Basic Information:
State: Virginia
Ethnicity: 1/4 Asian, 1/8 African, the rest White
Sex: Female
Income: 190K+
I really appreciate any help that the CC community can give to me. Thank you for reading that whole thing!