About Me

Hi! I’m Selena Wang, a student in the class of 2024 at The Ohio State University from Edison, New Jersey. I am currently majoring in biology with the aim to get into veterinary school.

In high school I was most involved in my choir, where I sang in four ensembles and served as secretary of choir council in junior and senior year. I was also secretary of the Modern Music Masters (Tri-M) Honor Society my senior year, helping to coordinate volunteer opportunities and organize concerts. Choir and Tri-M taught me about the importance of cooperation as a team while also allowing me to realize how much impact an individual has within a group, and I appreciate that my positions allowed me to have a more direct line of communication to the students I served. Additionally, I joined my school’s Animal Welfare Society in order to volunteer at the township animal shelter, and in senior year I served as treasurer of the club, where I raised money for donations to various animal welfare organizations. Outside of school, beginning freshman year I volunteered to create a curriculum and teach a conversational Mandarin class at my local Chinese school for students who had less exposure to speaking Mandarin at home. Conversely, in the summers of my freshman and sophomore year I traveled to China with different organizations and taught English to the kids there. These opportunities let me use my language abilities to help others connect with their culture and let me learn about and embrace my culture as well. If you couldn’t already tell, I love volunteering and serving others, and I believe that there is always something that can be learned through these experiences and the people involved. That’s a big part of why I decided to join the Biological Sciences Scholars program as well as the Pre-Veterinary Medical Association. These groups allow me to give back to the local community of Columbus that I have really come to appreciate and also give me the chance to get closer to achieving my career aspirations.

Attending an out-of-state college and attempting to get involved on campus along with keeping up with my classes in the middle of a pandemic is not easy, but I am not one to give up easily and fully intend to make the most of my time here!