<p>Hello</p>
<p>I am a freshman from Canada and I was wondering if you could just take a bit of your time to read my post and tell me if I'm going in the right direction to have a good chance in grade 11/12 if I apply to Stanford.</p>
<p>Course Load: Required Grade 9 courses and 1 grade 10 courses (history)
Average: First semester - 86% Second Semester (MIDTERM) - 90%</p>
<p>E.Cs - Debate Team, Trivia Club (in the Junior Team - (made provincials)), Student Activity Council, Other student leadership council</p>
<p>Sports - At 1st stage of three stages of life guarding training
Cricket club (in their rep. U-15 team)
Muay Thai, BJJ, Kickboxing</p>
<p>Jobs - own a business (no employees) generates 1000 dollars a month give or take a few hundred
- free-lance photographer (mostly for church, family, friends)</p>
<p>Volunteering - 120+ hours till date
-summer camp at church
- kids programs
- marathons
-library</p>
<p>Summer: - Finishing a grade 10 course to open up a free elective next year
-Volunteering at a native reserve to help native children (1 week)
- Build my photography portfolio
- Volunteer as a photograper at a kids camp (1 week)</p>
<p>Course load for grade 10: All required grade 10 courses, grade 11 law, business</p>
<p>Grade 11: HL Bio, HL (Chem/Physics - not sure yet), HL pysch, IB english, french + SL/HL Math</p>
<p>Grade 12: IB</p>
<p>Future Summers: - volunteer ALOT want to do 1000 hours by end of grade 12, summer program (if finances allow), further photography and business, create a photography business, internships, world vision ambassador, international volunteering trips, start studying for SAT</p>
<p>Thanks alot for the help!</p>
<p>Just want to know if I'm in the right path and if you could comment/ give advice :) I know this is really early, but I just want to plan and be sure that I can do the best I can, and whether i make it in or not is not up to me from that point.</p>