UMichWolverine
UMichWolverine,
UMich
B.S., Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, , Psychology
I'm Polish, outgoing, happy to meet new people. Always trying to innovate and help out wherever I am.
Features Included
5
Essays
8
Schools
8
Scores
5
Advice
6
ECs
2
Sports

Background

Hometown Arlington Heights
GenderMale
EthnicityWhite Non-Hispanic
AdmissionEarly Action
Class of2018
English First Language No
Other Language(s) Spoken Polish, German, Russian

Results, Essays, and Advice

Accepted
Waitlisted or Withdrew
Denied
  • University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
  • Loyola University Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  • Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI)
  • Yale University (New Haven, CT)
  • University of Chicago (Chicago, IL)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO)
  • University of Illinois - Chicago  (Chicago, IL)
  • Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH)
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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)

Applied for a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Accepted and Enrolled Legacy: No

School Specific Essays

School Specific Advice

More Essays

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Personal Statement
511 Words
Place you’re content
A rush of energy courses through me while I push on the metal plate that opens a set of double doors with a satisfying "click". The words "########## Hospital" break apart to let me pass from the exhaust saturated parking garage into the sterile-white passage leading to the main hospital. Having just suffered through a menacing incident the past few days involving a phone number in the wrong hands, a heap of text messages, plus a sliver of now-depleted hope and...
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Supplemental Essay Unique question posed by school
240 Words
Trotting down the sidewalk, grasping my mother’s finger, I look up at a beige building engulfing the horizon. Little could my 3-year- old mind comprehend that this building would serve as a community that would surpass every other one I would take part in. Advocate Lutheran General Hospital is where I am part of a community like no other. Although the time I spent here as a child was comprised mostly of me sitting in the nurse’s lounge...
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Supplemental Essay “Why us” school essay
423 Words
I have been told that ever since I was a child, I have preferred wires over any toy that I could get my hands on. When most kids would cling to their blanky, I clung on to my favorite yellow extension cord with the force of an olympic water polo player. A decade and a half later, I no longer give mothers a scare by playing on the swings with an extension cord in my once tiny hands. Instead, I...
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Supplemental Essay “Why us” school essay
498 Words
For Honor's College at UIC: Sitting in my Honors Physics class, observing my teacher explain tangent velocity for the umpteenth time, I was overcome with frustration. Not because I was suffering from ennui, or felt my time would be better served elsewhere, but because some of my peers were ailing. Physics is a discipline that you either get or you don’t, and I was one of the lucky few who did. Even though I could have sailed passively the...
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Supplemental Essay “Why us” school essay
486 Words
I will always attribute my pursuit of a career in surgery to a man who I worked with early in my junior year while volunteering at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in the Patient Care Equipment Department. Sitting next to the shelf of SCD machines, waiting for the printer to spit out a request for another life-saving device, Joel told me his dreams of becoming a physical therapist and his struggle with helping his wife finally immigrate to the US from...
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General Admissions Advice

Whether I used a private admissions counselor, and advice I received
15 Words
I did not use a...
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How to increase chances at my school
9 Words
Apply early action,...
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What I’d change about my application process
25 Words
I believe I applied to much too many...
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Why I ultimately chose my school
60 Words
I visited UMich and felt that the atmosphere was what I needed to feel alive and happy during...
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Recommended summer activities during high school and college
104 Words
High school students should be very involved before heading off to college. For me, I was involved in my school's swim team and water polo team, and continued to do so...
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High School Performance

Weighted GPA
4.40
 
Rank
N/A
 
High School TypePublic
Academic Performance in High School Steady
Explanation of Low Grades

Test Scores

Highest ACT
34
 
ACT Score Details
 

AP / IB Classes and Scores

Details10 classes and scores

Sports

SportsSwimming/Diving, Water Polo

Extracurriculars

ActivitiesHospital Volunteer, Tutoring/Mentoring, German Club, Community Cleanup / Service, Marching Band, Math Team

Experience & Awards

How Spent Summers
Volunteer Experiences
Awards Received

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