Chance a Brit

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>British citizen
Schools don't rank in the UK
GPA: GCSEs AAAAAAABBC 3.84 UW GPA by Fulbright's conversion chart
GPA: (AS Only) BBB 3.7 UW GPA " " " resitting all in January
SAT: 2290, hopefully 2300+ after October SAT
SAT Subject Tests: World History 800, US History 800</p>

<p>ECs:
Snooker - 6 years
Writing reviews (75 since) 2 years
Member of Long Now - 1 year
England's edu system doesn't really promote ECs heavily compared to the US..</p>

<p>Awards:
- Won the Business Enterprise competition locally, county, and runners-up regionally in 2008
- Scaled Three Peaks Expedition</p>

<p>Teacher recommendations should be great</p>

<p>Some other stuff:
- First generation
- Cousin went to Stanford</p>

<p>Applying to:
- Stanford
- Princeton
- Yale
- uPenn
- Cornell
- Columbia
- UMich @ Ann Arbor
- UC @ Berkeley
- Duke
- UVa
- Williams
- Amherst</p>

<p>Will apply for FA at Princeton and Amherst</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>What A levels are you doing? I am a dual citizen, but i have lived here my whole life and I do to a posh boarding school. Do people like us get in to top schools?
By the way, your GCSEs could be better but you have great SAT scores so you could get in although they are reaches.</p>

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<p>I don’t think I’d list snooker as a key EC unless you hold some national record.</p>

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<p>usbrit I’m doing Economics, Politics and History of Art. I don’t go to a boarding school, but just because you go to one doesn’t mean you’ll be guaranteed at a top Uni.</p>

<p>Why Redroses? Opportunities for ECs in the UK are very limited, and I understand if Snooker isn’t that well known in the US or where you live but its a nationally recognised sport in the UK/Ireland, and in all fairness although I only play it casually it takes a large amount of my free time, and I’ve already wirtten my EC essay on it…</p>

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<p>Have you considered UNC at Chapel hill?</p>

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<p>Good shot… apply to several of these and you’re sure to get into a majority of them.</p>

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<p>I’ve considered UNC@Chapel Hill, but it isn’t a good fit for me.</p>

<p>Bump.</p>

<p>10char</p>

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<p>You definitely have the scores; though a cousin in Stanford is not exactly a hook, it might help a little. And I kinda agree with Redroses on the snooker. It is just like me saying that I have been playing Chinese chess as a hobby since I was four. I don’t think it will mean anything significant to US colleges unless you have won some kind of an award. But I am not American so don’t take my opinion too seriously.</p>

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<p>Thanks, but I still think that its worthwhile to put it on my app, I mean I don’t really have much else to put as my ECs.</p>

<p>And bump.</p>