didn't think id make this far- JHU admit
College GPA: 3.904 ( with calc, both orgos, both bios, and both gen chems completed)
High school GPA: 3.96UW/4.5W
SAT/ACT: 30 ACT (did not submit)
Major: Environmental Public Health, Pre-Med; applies environmental science and pub health/bio at other schools
Background: URM/FGLI Female; currently go to Ohio State w/ full ride and honors.
1 LOR: from bio 1 professor
Activities:
Research:
- RA for COVID public health project through my college; offered to continue past two semester commitment
- RA for clinical nutritional science lab lead on current project with PhD student; Worked full time in the summer leading my own project through paid medical research program
- Research Intern for environmental carbon lab under Nobel Prize laureate at my uni for the fall semester, manuscript development in progress, did a separate completed capstone paper as well
- Clinical Research Coordinator for local clinic I work as a medical assistant for; in the process for setting up clinical trials and getting grants for the location
- Output: 5 posters/contributions across different positions so far w/ manuscript development in progress
Non-Clinical Volunteering:
- Youth Fundraising Coordinator and Social Media Head for 2 separate African global health nonprofits I have been involved with since high school
Clinical Volunteering/Hours:
- Medical Assistant at local clinic on weekends
Shadowing:
- shadowed a pathology, gastro, and even a few nurse practitioners at local uni hospital
Leadership:
- founder and president of first undergraduate chapter of NPO I am in/youth advisor position
- co-founded small health tech startup focused on optical solutions partnering with college of optometry
Awards
- Full tuition university scholarship
- separate 5k outside scholarship for school
- 1st place for cellular biohackathon
- 2nd place poster presentation
- Green fellow for environmental organization
- finalist for 5k grant for organizational work
Accepted: Johns Hopkins, Boston University, UVA
Rejected: Cornell, Tufts, UPenn, Emory
Waitlisted: Barnard
Reflection: still waiting to her back from financial aid but if I can't afford it I will likely stay at OSU. got rejected from JHU in high school so to get in a second time around feels like a dream. kinda only applied to transfer schools cus my sister got into Columbia (and told me to apply to them) but I'm glad to see the other side and make my family proud.