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Katelyn Niu
"I sense the joy and pathos, humor and tears, life and death, challenge and opportunity of being a doctor. This experience ended all the doubts."
- Alumni of: 2003 Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship Program
- Resides: Ellicott City, MD
- Hometown: Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China
- Age: 27
- Community College: The Community College of Baltimore County
- Four-year College or University: University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Academic/Career Pursuits: Medical Practitioner
- Other Interests: Honor Society, Performing Arts / Theatre, Tutoring / Mentoring
Biography
"I have always wanted to be a doctor," writes Katelyn Niu. "I made this decision a long time ago." To be sure, she volunteered in the University's Cancer Center and Medical Center Operating Room. More than 200 hours later, she's more sure than ever.
In spite of having arrived from China only two years ago, Katelyn has a perfect grade point average, is an Honors Student, is on the National Dean's List, and has earned the Roy N. Staten Scholarship, first prize in a September 11th essay contest, and second prize in a breast cancer essay contest. She is vice president of the local Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society, and has volunteered for more than a dozen service functions, including collecting toys and food, raising funds, providing health information, working in food kitchens, and tutoring mothers on welfare who are trying to earn their GEDs.
Katelyn is working as a math and science tutor and as a lab research assistant. She has an ambitious future planned: continuing to volunteer and work in the lab while finishing her B.S., an M.D./Ph.D. program, a third language, her residency, and an internship to become a cardiology specialist-then building her own cardiology hospital and research lab.
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