HOW I GOT INTO JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BME

HOW I GOT INTO JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY BME

0:43 My Stats - ACT, GPA, Class Rank, Subject Tests
1:09 My Supplemental Items
1:45 What Major I Applied To
2:16 Explaining my JHU Supplement (Read full supplement below!)
4:17 My Extracurriculars

Check out my Common App Essay!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfPgC8rnrq0

My Johns Hopkins University Supplemental Essay

Successful students at Johns Hopkins make the biggest impact by collaborating with others, including peers, mentors, and professors. Talk about a time, in or outside the classroom, when you worked with others and what you learned from the experience. (300-400 word limit)

I had the opportunity to conduct research at a neuroscience lab at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, working on a project to increase viral infection rates in zebra finches to ultimately understand speech deficits in humans. Working in a lab, I was able to recognize and participate in the various levels of collaboration that contributed to success and discovery.

A successful lab involves the hard work and dedication of each member working towards a common research goal. I learned about all parts of the lab to better understand how all of the pieces worked together. Everyone, whether it be the professor, a researcher, or the research technician who cleaned the bird cages, tools, and lab, played an important role. While waiting on my own experiments, I observed and assisted surgeries or experiments of other projects. I listened to other researchers about the nature of their work and their progress. I also learned how to clean the cages without any birds getting loose and catch birds without harming them, helping the research technician when needed. I became familiar with the manager’s and technician’s process of documenting the available birds by age, gender, and health level and assisted where I could. The lab manager also kept a tight count of lab resources. However, it was everyone’s responsibility to let the manager know if they were waiting on a specific bird profile or used the last of any resource. The lab was a smooth sailing ship because of the respect everyone had for each other’s roles and the on-going collaboration and teamwork that naturally occurred.

I also collaborated extensively with my mentor. The goal of my project was to find a way to increase viral infection in zebra finches to more favorable rates. My mentor showed me how to culture cells and spot expression of a fluorescent protein and together we made connections between the infection rates of our neuronal cultures and the temperatures we were subjecting them to.

All of my peers in the lab utilized zebra finches as the model organism because of the similarity of their production of a unique song to the development of human speech. Even my small research was an important collaborative piece that helped the rest of my peers improve the cleanliness of optogenetic experiments on zebra finches for their projects.

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