This is my profile (It'll be a bit long):
BASIC INFORMATION:
Asian (Indian)
International student
Private High School operating under CBSE Curriculum with a graduating class of 120 students
Female
No legacy (Actually, I’m the first in my family to intend to travel abroad)
Intended Majors
Biological sciences, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry
GRADES AND SCORES:
My school doesn’t report my GPA, but here are my final exam scores:
Grade 9: 95%
Grade 10: 98%
Grade 11: 93%
Top 5% of my graduating class
No honors classes or AP Classes are offered by my school
Took the SAT once and got a 1500
Coursework
Took online courses from Duke and Harvard
Attended classes from the nearby college on Biotechnology
Awards
International Foundation Reasoning and Aptitude Olympiad - International Rank 1
World Record in playing keyboard
National Winner in Aarohan, conducted by BITS Pilani University
Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition- Bronze Award
Immerse Education Essay Competition- 90% Scholarship Winner
National Level Speed Arithmetic Competition- Champion of Champion
National level Science Talent Search Examination (NSTSE) TOP 25
State-Level Drawing Competition Winner
Extracurriculars
Keyboard Tutor(Volunteering) for 3 years
Discipline Captain of the School
Research member of the New York Academy of Sciences
Elocution/Oration
Independent Researcher (Has a home lab)
Content Writer in School Magazine
Volleyball Captain in school
Painting
Essays/LORs/Other
My essays were very personalized
In the Common App essay, I chose prompt 3 (Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?), where I talked about my disapproval of a certain Indian tradition
Another essay was based on my fat shaming and how I overcame it by winning 3 medals in the sports competitions
LORs by my English and Biology teacher, are pretty good and elaborate
Family income is less than $30,000
Require need-based financial aid
Schools
Amherst College
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Duke University
Harvard University
Johns Hopkins University
Michigan State University
MIT
New York University
Northwestern University
Princeton University
Rice University
Stanford University
The University of Alabama
University of Chicago
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Pennsylvania
I was accepted into Purdue in Early action (with Honors College) and Deferred at Yale (SCEA)
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