Posted on 28 November 2012. Tags: ap psychology, candidate, disaster victims, Honors, honors program, ib diploma, ib math studies, Macaulay, medical careers, mock trial, ngo in pakistan, peer support, Physics, Shot
Hi, I’m a senior at a high school. I’m an IB diploma candidate taking the following courses this year:
IB History HL, IB English HL, IB TOK, IB Physics HL, IB Urdu (independent study), AP Psychology and Medical Careers (Elective). Last year, in addition to the above mentioned IB classes I also took IB Economics SL and IB Math Studies. My GPA is 3.5 and my SAT scores are 1900. Do I have a shot at the Macaulay Honors Program?
Extra Curricular: I’m in Mock Trial and Peer-Support (a community service club) and have done Model U.N in the past. I’m a polyglot and proficient in several languages including English, Urdu, Hindi, Arabic, Punjabi and Sindhi. I also volunteer for Habitat for Humanity and am affiliated with an NGO in Pakistan (my native country) for which I fund raise to provide relief to the disaster victims.
I was wondering If I had a shot at the Program? because I know its really competitive.
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Posted on 23 January 2011. Tags: albert einstein college, albert einstein college of medicine, ap us history, biology science, chemistry science, einstein college of medicine, English, geometry honors, GPA, Honors, Nyu, nyu stern, research, university of michigan ann arbor, world history honors
Hi. I’m a junior from a public high school in NY. I want to enroll in NYU stern (regular decision) or University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Early Action) for finance or any other business major, so I was wondering what my chances are. Here’s a summery of my transcript
Classes (just the main ones)
9th grade- Honors English, Honors geometry, honors world history, honors biology, science research, Spanish 2
10th grade- honors english, honors trig, honors world history II, honors chemistry, science research, Spanish 3
11th grade- honors english, honors pre calc, AP us history, AP chemistry, science research, Spanish 4
GPA: My school does this out of 100. My GPA during freshman year was like 92, but my sohpohomore one was about 95.8. Right now, I have a GPA of slightly above 95 as a junior. On Naviance (which has my fresh and sohpo grade only) I have a 94.24 GPA, which should go up after this year I guess.
SAT: 2210 (800 writing, 730 math, 680 reading)
Extracurriculars: Treasurer of my class in 10th, site-based representative 11th, Model UN 9th,10th, and 11th, Founder/President of Business Leaders of Tomorrow (My school’s first business club), Founder/President of Live United (Affiliated with the volunteer organization United Way), Treasurer of environmental club 11th, NHS, Math honors society, science honors society, Etc…
Also, I’ve interned at Albert Einstein-college of medicine for about 400 hours, and have about 150 hours of community service
I would appreciate it if i could get a response from an actual undergrad from the university, but anything’s fine. Thank you.
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Posted on 23 January 2011. Tags: ap chemistry, ap us history, biology science, business, chemistry science, English, geometry honors, GPA, Honors, michigan ann arbor, naviance, research, science honors, university of michigan ann arbor, world history honors
Hi. I’m a junior from a public high school in NY. I want to enroll in University of Michigan-Ann Arbor for finance or any other business major, so I was wondering what my chances are. Here’s a summery of my transcript
Classes (just the main ones)
9th grade- Honors English, Honors geometry, honors world history, honors biology, science research, Spanish 2
10th grade- honors english, honors trig, honors world history II, honors chemistry, science research, Spanish 3
11th grade- honors english, honors pre calc, AP us history, AP chemistry, science research, Spanish 4
GPA: My school does this out of 100. My GPA during freshman year was like 92, but my sohpohomore one was about 95.8. Right now, I have a GPA of slightly above 95 as a junior. On Naviance (which has my fresh and sohpo grade only) I have a 94.24 GPA, which should go up after this year I guess.
SAT: 2210 (800 writing, 730 math, 680 reading)
Extracurriculars: Treasurer of my class in 10th, site-based representative 11th, Model UN 9th,10th, and 11th, Founder/President of Business Leaders of Tomorrow (My school’s first business club), Founder/President of Live United (Affiliated with the volunteer organization United Way), Treasurer of environmental club 11th, NHS, Math honors society, science honors society, Etc…
I would appreciate it if i could get a response from an actual undergrad from the university, but anything’s fine. Thank you.
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Posted on 01 December 2010. Tags: Animal, automotive repair shop, cats in need, charity case, class committee, club ed, Extracurriculars, extreme advantage, GPA, Honors, life circumstances, math, math 2, severe depression, sophomore year
Before I begin I would like to point out that I am quite aware my grades/scores are very poor and that it is a huge stretch to apply, but I decided I might as well try. The worst a more prestigious school like UCI can do is reject me.
UC GPA: 3.35
SAT: 1790 (retaking on December 4th, I hope)
SAT II US History: 670
SAT II Math 2: 640
Cumulatively I have taken 6 AP courses and 9 Honors courses.
Extracurriculars:
Animal Rights Club for two years.
I’m in Desi Club, Senior Class Committee, Harry Potter Alliance, Club ED, and a Journalism News Editor. I was also a tutor to students who failed to pass the CAHSEE.
Volunteer: I volunteered for about 30 hours with Cats In Need.
Work Experience: 2000+ hours working at my father’s automotive repair shop over these 3+ years
Miscellaneous (not sure if it might be helpful somehow): My brother is an alumnus of UCI and my mother works as a RN for UCI.
~~~No I don’t think that because I have family members affiliated with the institution that I have some extreme advantage over other applicants. I did not include their affiliation in my application.~~~
-Im not sure how difficult life circumstances play into admissions but I did choose to write a (OK) personal statement about being diagnosed with severe depression in my sophomore year. I tried to refrain from sounding like a liability or charity case though, obviously focusing on what Ive gathered from the experience and how college might serve as an outlet to help me with it et cetera.
Any constructive criticism would be highly appreciated, thanks!
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Posted on 24 November 2010. Tags: anxiety problems, ap calculus bc, ap calculus bc exam, ap physics c, Brunswick, chemistry and biology, college gpa, condensed matter physics, Home, Honors, math, math iic, Physics, post graduate school, rutgers university school
Hi, I’m a 17 year old freshman engineering student currently attending the Rutgers University School in New Brunswick, NJ. I live in New Jersey and decided to attend Rutgers because it is close to home, and I commute. Although I finished well in high school, I suffered from severe anxiety problems and depression. With this in addition to my severe lack of social skills, my parents and psychiatrist decided that it would be dangerous for me to go away my first year of college. It was a challenge for me just to communicate with the other person in my dorm. Emotionally, I wasn’t ready to travel far away from home where I would have to be self-dependent. Until recently, my mom was driving me to classes because I wasn’t mature enough to learn to drive.
I would like to transfer to a more elite engineering school that would assist me in being able to attend the graduate/post graduate school of my choice. Here is some of my info:
Finished high school with a 4.1 weighted gpa (3.6 unweighted) with all honors and AP
attended a competitive public high school, graduated top 10% in class of 500
5 on AP Calculus BC exam, 5 on Physics B and C exams (high school didn’t offer AP Physics C, I taught it myself), 5 on chemistry and biology
800 on both Math IIC Test and Physics
2350 SAT Reasoning (50 points from 12 on essay)
Science League Member in High school
Completed a course in multivariable calculus and Physics second semester in highschool at Rutgers with both A’s
enrolled in Honors Program
College GPA- 3.94 Dean’s List
Applied Math and Physics dual major (Honors)
– Several Physics awards and recognitions
– Lots of research since high school, primarily in condensed matter physics,including some published in Physics Review Letters with professor
– invited to meetings of American Physical Society
– I also know several professors, one affiliated with my dream school Caltech, who will all write me great recommendations
This is an abridgment of some of my most important achievements. Do I stand a chance in the highly selective transfer admissions?
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