Hola.
I’m a rising senior in a Canadian high school who transferred from Thailand to do his senior year in Canada. I am an American (I grew up in the bay area), but I am of mixed race (pacific islander/white). Mother went to Columbia but did not graduate. I’m fluent in french and english. I would like to major at Pomona in Politics/Philosophy/Econ, and honestly It’d be a dream. I intend on applying EDII.
ACADEMICS
GPA-UW:3.94 (My gap dipped my second semester of my junior year, due to a number of factors including pressure from my mother who had just become homeless), admittedly I’m a bit worried about my GPA dropping my senior year just due to the stress of moving and the change in environment (two Bs at the moment, but should be easily raised to A, should be).
SAT I: 1890-- It’s a killer, but I will be retaking it in December with some actual practice (1400+ on all my practices).
SAT II: Null
AP: Have taken 3 AP Exams (Bio-4, WH-3 (in my sophomore year), Lang and Comp-4), and 3 AP Courses (Bio, Physics C-Mechanics, Statistics), and I’ll be taking the tests: Physics C, Stats, USGOV, Macroeconomics, Comp. Gov, Microeconomics in may.
EC/Awards
Varsity: soccer/futsal
JV: Volleyball (team MVP lol)/basketball (captain)
Placed fourth in the JV IHBB World History Bee Thailand, qualifying for the asian championships, but couldn’t go due to financial reasons
UWC-USA Davis Scholarship Finalist (might write about getting rejected)
Student Council Rep. for two years: acted as liaison with front office at private school. I was the only native english speaker on the team and helped lobby for bringing in FIOS (in rural Thailand), a new bus, repainting the gym, and building a designated Student Council room. Will write some supplements about this.
MUN 3 years
Debate team senior year
3 8 hour stints across SE Asia doing volunteer work as part of a school trip (Volunteer hours are a weakness).
I will be trying to volunteer at the dogwood initiative here in Canada, a canvassing thingamajig
150+ Scuba Dives, advanced PADI Scuba Diver (was certified at 10), have done supervised wreck in Japanese wrecks in the Philippines. I may write about this on my essay.
Note: I also went to French immersion school for all of my pre-teen years, including going to school in India. This is another subject for my essays.
Questions:
Chance me por favor? If I can get my SAT to 1400+, what are my chances then?
EDIT: Also, I am scheduling an interview at the moment, and I’d like to mention that the reason behind me not having a lot of political oriented stuff, is that I wanted to do molecular biology up until the end of my junior year (when there was a very controversial constitutional referendum in Thailand, one that inspired my “political passion”).