<p>Please help me out if you can! Barnard is my first choice.</p>
<p>SAT I: WR: 680, M: 640, CR: 780
SAT II: English Lit: 730, US History: 650
ACT: n/a
AP: Spanish (4), English Comp (4), US History (4), Psych (?), Gov (?), English Lit (?)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.7 unweighted 4.1 weighted</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Girls Chorus for 7 years (tour to Cuba, performances with the SF Opera, 2nd place int'l competition).
Musical theater inside and outside of school.
School chamber choir auditioned group.
Retreat leader.
President of 2 LGBTQ clubs.
Job as an assistant at a hair salon.
Community service @ LGBT Center.
Community service tutoring low income kids. </p>
<p>Awards: Honor roll 4 of 6 semesters, Wellesley Book award.</p>
<p>Essays: Really good I think...
Recs: Also stellar I think. I didn't read them.</p>
<p>Hooks: lesbian, adopted. </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
Chance me for Barnard?
International Student in India
- School curriculum: IB
- Ethnicity: Indian
- School: Private international, ranking in top 10 IB day schools of India.
GPA: Roughly 3.9-4.0 (my school does not calculate it)
SAT: 2190 superscore
CR 710 M 740 W 740
SAT II - 710 M2 720 Spanish Reading
International so TOEFL: 119
30 Reading 30 Writing 30 Listening 29 Speaking
IB Courseload:
English HL
Economics HL
Physics HL
Math SL
Spanish B SL
Theatre SL
TOK
Predicted: Don’t know. But can be between 39-40/42
Awards:
- Highest academic achiever in grades 9 and 10
- Winner of TOEFL India Learners Awards- top 10 from all students in India receive a grant of $7000. More than a 1000 apply.
- Outstanding in community service
- Outstanding in English HL
Come from a non-competitive school. Otherwise, winner of national level spell bees twice, speech competition in 2010.
Community service: +200 hrs
Volunteer at:
- Operation Smile
- Dam project in India for displaced victims
- Habitat for Humanity
- Dance and theatre teacher for underprivileged
- Founder of arts non profit The Dream Project and Foundation and started a legacy of theatre festivals in my school
- Independent organizer of cancer seminars
ECs:
- Light and theatre set design - worked on Asia’s first production of Sunshine on Leith
- Marathon running
- Dance: Dancer on scholarship, train more than 10 hours a week in jazz, ballet, contemporary and Bollywood
- Pianist, Keyboard and Tabla player
- Mandarin, Italian and Arabic self-study
- Zumba: I’m one of India’s youngest instructors
- Co-founder and editor of my school’s magazine
- Member of Relay For Life organizing committee
- Head of Registrations for TEDxYouth@OIS
- Blogging on TheDesiBallerina
- Varsity badminton and basketball player
- Chair of Human Rights Commission and ECOSOC at MUNs including HMUN
Leadership role
- Founder of Dream Project - school’s first ever charitable theatre festival where I directed and supervised 6 plays and raised 100,000 rupees
- Zumba classes
- Self initiated runner
- TEDx
Internships:
- Digital Media Associate with The Indian Economist
- Social media manager with V Designs, India’s first vegan firm
- Overseas internship with Sudar Global FZE in Middle Eastern trade, did a lot of writing
Essays: CommonApp was very personal. Related it to being a superhero in my own way with my fascination with quantum physics and a very personal incident in my life.
Barnard prompt 1: How a tshirt from Barnard showed me that it is my place.
Conversation with a woman in history: Nobody historical, but my grandmother who fought hard against female foeticide in India.
Third: How i fight bravely against female abuse when i was groped and well, attacked and in India you’re supposed to keep quiet otherwise your attacker usually tries to kill you.
Recs: Waived FERPA. But every recommender of mine knows me extremely well.