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BiologistClass of 20233.8+1400+/31+steminternational
Molecular Biology Applicant
Male · White Latino · Mexico · Private IB School (Not a feeder)(90% scholarship recipient)
🏷️ LGBT Latino
Income: Middle-class; eligible for free tuition at Harvard per their old and more recent financial aid policy standards. Applied for financial aid.
Academic Profile
GPA (UW/W)
98.7 (UW)
SAT
1420
IB Courses
1
Extracurricular Activities
- Research: Tuberculosis ResearchDesigned app to prevent local drug-resistant TB, surveyed dozens of doctors, devised quantitative analysis to assess app potential
- Science ClubLed interactive meetings, coached first-year students to enter contests with original research projects, one of which won the school a $12K USD grant
- Medicine Academic Insights ProgramAttended physiology seminars, assisted in team lab practicals, performed dissections and defended a cancer presentation at the University of Cambridge
- Medical Shadowing and VolunteeringReached out to a shadowing program restricted to med students; shadowed surgeons, volunteered in clinic and peds program for marginalized communities
- Theater StudentPracticed acting; wrote, directed, and delivered a monologue about Campbell's plastic tortilla soup as a metaphor for an unauthentic Mexican heritage
Awards & Honors
- ★SIYSS ‘22
- ★Description: Sole representative of LATAM; invited to attend Nobel Prize Award Ceremony
- ★Gold Medal: ISIF '22
- ★Description: International Science and Invention Fair (HS, Life Science Category)
- ★Best-in-fair Award: National ExpoSciences Fair Durango ‘21
- ★Description: ExpoCiencias Nacional Durango
- ★1st Place in Med: National Science & Engineering Fair ‘22
- ★Description: Feria Mexicana Ciencias e Ingeniería
- ★Rise Finalist '21
- ★Description: Global scholarship, Rhodes Trust & Schmidt Futures. 500 finalists out of 50,000 applications.
Essay Topics
Common App Essay
Discussed how the structure and function of living organisms inspired a pursuit of science, starting with childhood curiosity about hands and leading to interests in biology and molecular oncology.
Interview Experiences
- Vassar College
- Performance/Outcome: None
- Dartmouth College
- Performance/Outcome: None
- Yale University
- Performance/Outcome: Mentioned in acceptance package.
- Harvard University
- Performance/Outcome: Interviewer was impressed by personal story regarding COVID-19 experience.
Letters of Recommendation
Teacher
Strong relationships with all teachers; they shared cool anecdotes.
College Decisions
Accepted (8)
University of TorontoReed CollegeAmherst CollegeBates CollegeVassar CollegeDartmouth CollegeYale UniversityHarvard University
Rejected (7)
University of ChicagoUniversity of RichmondRochester UniversityDenison UniversityGrinnell CollegeJohns Hopkins UniversityStanford University
Profile Tags
ResearchScience FairAdvanced Coursework (AP/IB/Dual Enrollment)LeadershipTheaterVolunteeringCommunity Service