Chance a Singaporean!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Race: Chinese, International student (Singapore)</p>

<p>GCE A Level Grades: AAB/B
H2 Economics: A
H2 History: A
H2 Mathematics: B
H1 Literature in English: B
H1 General Paper: A
H1 Project Work: A</p>

<h2>EC: Entrepreneurship Club (mainly), Lifeguard Corps, Tae-Kwon-Do</h2>

<p>1) Entrepreneurship / Leadership
- President of CCA for 2 years
o Chaired the organization of various events such as St. Luke's Flag Day (raising more than $3000 in a single day) & O Games for the World Presidents' Organization (WPO)
o Received Outstanding Service Award (awarded by College during Honors' Night 2009)
- Deputy Chairperson of the Youth Entrepreneurship Symposium (YES! 2009) held at Singapore Management University (SMU)</p>

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<li> Represented Singapore at the FedEx / Junior Achievement International Trade Challenge Asia-Pacific Finals 2008 held at Kuala Lumpur (Was in top 3 teams in national round)</li>
<li> Overall Champion in YES! 2008 Case Competition held at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School</li>
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<p>2) Sports
- Represented College at the 9th NUS Lifesaving Invitational Championships 2008
- Certified Lifeguard (Bronze Medallion)</p>

<ul>
<li> Assistant Trainer at the Nanyang Technological University (2006 - 7) Tae-Kwon-Do Club</li>
<li> Holding a Black Belt 1st Pum in both Singapore Tae-Kwon-Do Federation & Singapore Tae-Kwon-Do Academy respectively</li>
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<p>3) Public Communications
- Assumed emcee roles in several College events
- Invited guest speaker to book launch of best-selling book 'Break Through' at National Library Board</p>

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<h2>Best Paper Award at the National University of Singapore (NUS) History Seminar 2009</h2>

<p>Predicted SAT scores:</p>

<p>SAT I*: 2200 (Will be taking in October this year)
CR 700
Math 800
Writing 700</p>

<p>SAT IIs:
US History* >750 (Will be taking in November this year)
World History* >750 (Will be taking in November this year)</p>

<p>SATs taken:</p>

<h2>Math II 790 (took in May earlier this year)</h2>

<p>Since I’m currently in National Service (compulsory for all Singaporeans), I will be able to apply for admission to the 2011 (1 year deferment) and 2012 academic years respectively.</p>

<p>I will not be applying for financial aid, hope that helps!</p>

<p>Possible Majors:
Finance / Economics</p>

<p>Possible choices:
1) Cornell CAS
2) NYU Stern
3) Dartmouth CAS
4) Amherst
5) Middlebury
6) UC Berkeley CAS (Will be applying next year since UC doesn’t do deferments)
7) Michigan Ross
8) Northwestern CAS
9) Georgetown McDonough</p>

<p>For ED, I am torn between Cornell CAS and NYU Stern. Would appreciate any comments.</p>

<p>Thanks in advance! Cheers.</p>

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<p>Please, don’t do predicted SAT scores. That will ruin your chances.</p>

<p>Other than that, everything looks extremely solid!
Good job!</p>

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<p>Thanks lebron :D</p>

<p>bump! would appreciate any other comments!</p>

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<p>Ballpark your SAT, but don’t predict. Looks good, and Intl helps (Asian not so much, but thats okay!). I think Cornell may be slightly harder to get into than Stern for you, but I’m not sure. It’s really up to you where you do ED. UCB, Dartmouth, and Amherst are also incredibly hard to get into, so you may want to look @ those for ED as well. As a whole, you seem like a match / candidate for most/all of those schools.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Not if you are applying from Singapore. We are always overrepresented.</p>

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<p>ED NYU Stern. There are way too many Singaporeans applying/already at Cornell.</p>

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<p>frankchn: Hey, I saw your profile on singapore connection forum. Would it be possible if you could recommend some schools which I should apply to (reach, match, and safeties), based on my portfolio and grades? Would appreciate your advice, especially since it’s coming from a homegrown Singaporean. Thanks in advance!</p>

<p>P.S. Do you think I stand a shot at UPenn CAS? </p>

<p>1234d: Haha yea I know that Cornell is like a hot spot for Singaporeans, especially since it’s supposedly the ‘easiest’ ivy league to enter.</p>

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<p>I suppose you could actually try for Penn/Wharton as a high reach if you are ambitious and have the time to write a nice supplemental essay for them. You might not get in - but hey, at least you tried (had the same attitude with Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Penn/Eng+Wharton myself).</p>

<p>You could also look into Cornell CALS which offers Applied Economics and Management instead of straight Econs at CAS. (I am not sure why AEM is in the Agricultural and Life Science school but there it is).</p>

<p>Try to transfer into Haas undergraduate if you do choose Berkeley in the end. Hope this helps :)</p>

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<p>I’d also ED Stern.</p>

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<p>Thanks frankchn!</p>

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<p>Any more advice by ccers!</p>

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<p>bump! </p>

<p>10 char</p>

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<p>I think you should apply for Econ CAS because AEM School in CALS is so so competitive, especially if you are an international student
NYU is easier and I think you have a good match</p>

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<p>woot its so nice to see other singaporeans! I’m a freshman in a college in upstate new york and I’m seriously considering transferring to possibly cornell for this incoming spring (its kinda past the deadline already…) and nyu for fall 2011!!</p>