I was so stressed in this summer program subreddit seeing all these sweats so here are my results from a pretty average student. I have a 1380 SAT, 4.0UW/4.8W (my school honestly has grade inflation bc A+ is 5.3 on a scale of 5.0)
I’m involved in 3 clubs (science Olympiad, a math club, and another science club at my school), I do cross county and winter/spring track. Im also in NHS and national science honor society.
I have four jobs, that’s why I’m not that involved in school stuff.
My letters of REC were mid and so were my essays.
UPenn PSSI : Ghosted
UPenn High School Engineering Internship: Rejected (So sad abt this because I wanted it so bad)
UPenn Glassman Scholars: Accepted!
Wistar Institute: Haven’t heard back yet but I didn’t get an interview so rejected
Local Hospital Program: Waitlisted
Loval Dermatology Research Program: Accepted!
NYU Simon’s: Rejected
My best advice is to apply to local programs and not big names because everyone applies to those ones!