Andrea Snoddy

I am currently set to be an incoming freshman into the class of 2024 at Emory University. I was accepted into their College of Arts and Sciences and I plan to major in Biostatistics in a joint BS/MSPH degree on the premed track; I plan to minor in creative writing. I grew up in Bavaria, Germany and I lived there for 14 years before my family and I moved to Virginia under military orders. German is my first language and I speak both English and German. I also know a healthy amount of Spanish because my mother is Panamanian, she immigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen in the summer of 2019. Growing up in Germany, I was fascinated with the science of nature and the science of life itself. I have always loved science but it was when my father got sick that I found my passion in medicine. Four years ago my dad was diagnosed with end stage renal kidney failure and was put on peritoneal dialysis. I began to set up his dialysis machine and aid in his at home injections of insulin, my father is also diabetic. I found myself taking every science course I could and I joined the National Science Honor Society at my school as well. Since then my father received a kidney in January of 2020, he and I have worked together before, during, and after his procedure and I have learned so much from him. Medicine and science is forever ingrained in my life and I am ecstatic to begin my studies. My dream would be to earn the MacArthur Fellowship and utilize it to create a dialysis clinic in my father’s name.