Chance me, I'm anxious. Want to get a few different perspectives.
gpa- 3.84 [cumulative] (higher after spring, if that even matters)
major- psych, alternate is anthro
tap- yes
honors- yes
major pre-reqs- all done, currently finishing two for my alternate major
miscellaneous-
-VP of honors society
-volunteer intern at UCLA hospital for 3 years
-currently working at clinical psych's office 24hrs/week (help with administering diagnostic tests for personality disorders etc etc)
-worked as student tutor in learning disabilities center
- volunteered in Pets for Vets (finding service dogs for veterans)
-one of 23 ambassadors for the dean (competitive, get a scholarly stipend every semester)
-Miss Santa Monica title holder (worked with the boys and girls club promoting drug abuse prevention and awareness)
-co-founder of a UCLA charity group for fundraising art therapy projects for cardiovascular trauma patients (people who almost died of heart disease, recovering after intense surgery), worked with chief of cardiothoracic surgery
-volunteered at a nursing home for the memory impaired
-volunteered at VA hospital, guided dance therapy research groups
-->total: about 315 hours of volunteering, 275 from UCLA hospital, 40 from pets for vets, VA, and the boys and girls club.
High school activities:
-placed as finalist at ballet competitions
-won numerous piano festivals (Bach, Schubert, Chopin)
-varsity track
-captain of poetry club, we placed at state competitions
-ballet and piano for past 15 years
Personal Statement: wrote on how I developed skills of resilience and unconditional work ethic through my experience with pain. My grandma raised me so when she passed of a cardiac arrest 3 years ago while regressing in Alzheimer's, my life felt like it split in half below my feet. Then in the second prompt I went on a nerdy-ass tangent of what I want to pursue in public mental health (want to study epidemiology of psychiatric disorders among childhood and adolescence) and how having a podcast program at the nursing home helped me learn of the comorbidity (simultaneous disorders) of neurodegenerative diseases (like alzheimer's, huntington's) and impulse-control disorders.
~~Additionally, I am pre-med. I'm first generation American= parents are immigrants.
APPLIED TO: UCLA, UCB, UCSD, UCI, got guaranteed transfer admission to UCD. Got into LMU I-)
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