u/Intrepid-Reserve-607

Demographics: White Male, CA, Public School

Intended Major(s): Computational Biology / Biomedical Engineering (undecided but I wanna do pre-med)

SAT: 1550

GPA: 4.55 W / 4.0 UW (but school caps APs and I took the most, so I think in that context this is probably really high)

Coursework: Rigorous STEM courseload, 9 APs by grad, I took AP Physics online but I didn't take the AP exam, all 5s so far

10: WHAP (5), AP Calc BC (5)

11th: AP Bio, AP Stats, APCS, AP Physics C Mechanics (no exam), Ap Physics C E&M (no exam)

12th: AP Lit, AP Econ, AP Chem, Multivar

Awards:

• AIME Qualifier

Extracurriculars:

1. Research Assistant at T5 university - cardiac genomics lab (10,11) (no pub :( ) (remote)
2. Research Intern at T5 medical school - kidney disease lab (10,11) (no pub rip) (remote)
3. Programs Lead at national mental health nonprofit - manage chapters nationwide (paid)
4. Executive Director of regional hackathon - $15k+ sponsorships, 300+ participants + partnering with community orgs/non profits for students to create projects for them (9-11)
5. Student leader at eating disorder awareness org - 100+ school outreach (9-11)
6. Youth council member at national ED organization (11)
7. VP of STEM club - taught 150+ students (9-11) (not related to my major tho)
8. Research at state university - psychology/neuroscience lab, working on manuscript for pub (9-11)
9. Hospital volunteer - weekly front desk shifts (10-11)
10. Summer research intern - wet lab experience (DNA extraction, PCR, sequencing) (10)
11. (11 to 15 is for UCs) Lung Cancer Awareness project
12. President of Medical Club (nothing crazy)
13. Student Advisory Board for mental health org (also got paid)
14. Perry Outreach Program (10)
15. Chess.com (ig I could put my 2000 ELO lmao)
16. COSMOS (this upcoming summer)

Essays: Pretty solid, focusing on bridging computational biology and patient advocacy

LORs: Kinda strong from research mentors and teachers

I think the biggest eh abt my app rn is how I don't have more tangible results/impact...im very much more about the journey than the destination unfortunately, with no confirmed publications yet.

Reaches: Stanford, MIT, JHU, Harvard, Duke, Yale, Princeton, Rice, Harvey Mudd, Northwestern, Brown, UC Berkeley, UCLA (lmao ik these are a little crazy but let's pretend)

Targets: UCSD, UC Davis, Case Western

Safeties: Probably CC or Merced or Riverside or Santa Cruz