Molecular Biology Applicant
Agender · Asian (Indian) American · Northeastern US · Large public high school
🏷️ Low-income family, graduating at the age of 15
Income: Low-income (less than $40k/year)
AP Exams Taken
- Science Olympiad Club PresidentRecruited people for the school's team, assigned members to events, trained underclassmen, and fundraised. Won several medals at regional contests.
- Self-taught Web Developer/WebmasterLearned HTML, CSS, JS, and SQL over the pandemic. Made/contributed to some open-source projects and coded some websites/tools for clubs and school.
- Chess Team2nd board player.
- Theatre Stage Crew - Sound LeaderCreated/edited sound effects/music using audio-editing software, ran soundboard during plays, set up actors with mics, trained new Sound Crew members.
- Math Team
- Sexuality and Gender Alliance (previously Gay-Straight Alliance)Secretary and Fundraiser.
- Volunteer at a local arts organizationAround 200 hours total throughout high school.
- Volunteer at an ESL summer day camp hosted by the school districtAround 80 hours total.
- Volunteering/job shadowing at a hospital pharmacySorting/delivering drugs, putting drugs into a pharmacy sorting robot - around 90 hours total.
- Student at a free residential summer program at a T50 universityExposed to various engineering fields such as materials science and bioengineering, did a research project on methods to synthesize human blood.
- ★Gold medals in Science Olympiad in Cell Biology, Anatomy and Physiology, and Epidemiology events at Regionals
- ★Gold medal at Regionals chess tournament
- ★National Merit Semifinalist
- ★U.S. Presidential Scholars Program Candidate
- ★AP Scholar with Distinction
Essay Topics
Wrote about identity as a person who skipped 3 grades in elementary/middle school and experiences being 3 years younger than peers, as well as being a queer person-of-color from a low-income immigrant family.
Teacher (AP Chemistry and Honors Chemistry)
Favorite teacher throughout high school, good relationship, strict but laid-back - 10/10
AP Physics teacher
Didn't know them that well since I only had them for 1 semester - 8/10
Science Olympiad Club Advisor
Known them for years, emphasized leadership abilities/personality traits - 9/10
Theatre Director and 10th grade English teacher
Improved writing skills, not a close relationship - 7/10
Accepted (10)
Waitlisted (2)
Rejected (5)
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