<p>Hi! I would appreciate it very much if you took a little time to read this and chance me. I transferred to a different country and an international school in early 2008 and didn't really think of applying to the US before that, so EC's aren't as strong as I'd like them to be. :) </p>
<p>Background</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Nationality: Filipino
Languages: English, Filipino, currently studying Spanish
Currently living in Thailand (the land of smiles and the land where no one speaks English)
Class of 2010
GPA: 4.3</p>
<p>School:
9th grade to 1st semester 10th: Small, Catholic, all-girls school in the Philippines
2nd semester 10th - 12th grade: International school with IB's and not AP's</p>
<p>Classes:
IB Diploma + Physics so that I took Bio and Chem in junior year and Bio, Chem, and Physics for senior year
Chorus as a class, audition-only</p>
<p>Test Scores
SAT Reasoning: 2330
M: 800
CR: 740
W: 790</p>
<p>SAT II's:
Biology M: 770
Math II: 800
Taking Chemistry in the fall</p>
<p>IB Psychology SL: 7</p>
<p>Honors
"Gold Awardee" - gpa of at least 95/100 (gr. 9, 10)
High Honor Roll - gpa of at least 3.9 (gr. 11, i'm guessing 12) </p>
<p>Extracurriculars</p>
<p>Equestrian (showjumping) - 5 years. Includes competitions in both the Philippines and Thailand, with trophies from the FEI World Cup .90m class in 2007, two Annual Horse Shows in the Philippines, and the Thailand Championships 1.10m class. Also includes two summers of being a working student at a Grand Prix rider's breeding farm in Australia. Possibly includes teaching beginner riding lessons to kids this summer, but not for more than a week.</p>
<p>Chorus - 3 years. Includes being part of finalists at a national competition in the Philippines, and being part of a select 8-member team of delegates at a cultural convention in Malaysia (and next year, in the Philippines). </p>
<p>School Newspaper - 2 years. Section Editor, then Assistant Editor-in-Chief. Was supposed to be EIC the next year, but transferred schools. :( </p>
<p>Literary Magazine - 2 years. Poem published. Helped organize Coffeehouse event. </p>
<p>Shadowing a Veterinarian - 2 summers, both in the Philippines and both horse vets. </p>
<p>Book Review Writer for a small magazine in the Philippines - 2 years.</p>
<p>Cornell University Summer College 2009 - Took a 3-credit college course in Animal Science and attended an Explorations in Veterinary Medicine seminar. Earned at least a 90 (grades will come back in August). </p>
<p>Community Service
Riding for the Disabled - 2.5 years. Will be head instructor this year. Every Friday.
Morning Breeze Community - 1 year. Teaching underprivileged kids every Friday.
Gawad Kalinga - 1 year. The Filipino equivalent of Habitat for Humanity.
1-week trip in Northern Thailand - Conversed with Northern Hill Tribes and worked with them to improve their quality of life, such as building a dam, picking up trash, visiting a reforestation project, and coming up with an action plan for a tribe that was in danger of losing their way of life. </p>
<p>Other
I'll probably be studying Animal Science or Biology, and riding for an equestrian team in college. I'll also probably write about moving for my essay, because I had lived 15 years in a Catholic country and gone to school in a very conservative and tiny school where everyone kind of thought the same way, before moving to an international school and considering a wider range of opportunities and mindsets. </p>
<p>Schools
Cornell University
Pomona College
UC Davis
UC San Diego
University of Virginia
Virginia Tech
Wesleyan University</p>
<p>I'm also applying to the University of Sydney in Australia because it has a 5-year vet science program instead of the pre-vet and then grad school track like US schools. Any advice on that would be greatly appreciated. </p>
<p>Parents are urging for Stanford and Amherst but I don't know if it's worth a try.</p>
<p>Again, thanks a bunch. :)</p>
