Chance an international please :)

<p>Stanford (dream school), UCB, UCLA, Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, Carnegie, Upenn, Brown</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Nationality/Ethnicity: White, Israeli (Jewish), lived in Thailand for the last 6 years
1st Gen. College
Financial Aid: No
Grade: 12
Intended Field: Physics/Engineering + Minor in Business/Economics</p>

<p>IGCSE Grades:
-Extended Maths - A (took a year early)
-Additional Maths - B (took as an extra course for the 2nd year instead of the already-finished Extended Maths)
-English Literature - A
-English Language - A
-Double Award Science - A<em>A</em>
-Business Studies - A*
-Geography - A*
-Information Computer Technology - A
-Design & Technology - A*</p>

<p>My school does IB - I take the hardest course possible:
HL Physics - Predicted 7/7
HL Maths - Predicted 7/7
HL Chemistry - Predicted 7/7
SL Business & Management - Predicted 7/7
SL English A1 - Predicted 6/7
SL Spanish Ab Initio - Predicted 7/7
Extended Essay - Predcted A
Theory of Knowledge - Predicted A
Total IB Predicted: 44/45 (very hard to get)</p>

<p>Not sure if my school ranks, but I am the top of my year/class/school. (highest predicted grades and best recs)</p>

<p>SATI:
Superscore: 2170
Math - 700
CR - 700
WR - 770</p>

<p>SATII:
intend to take in Dec and Jan
Physics and MathII. Hopefully 700+ on both in Dec and maybe even better in Jan.</p>

<p>Recs - Great (+got 2 recs from one of the most renown doctors in Israel and a minister in the government of Israel who studies at Stanford)
Essays - Hopefully Great :)</p>

<p>ECs:</p>

<p>LEADERSHIP
-Initiator and Leader of the local Amnesty International (human rights) Club: 9, 10, 11, 12.
-Prefect of School. In charge of all leadership aspects of school: 12th grade (only available final year)
-Interact Rotary Service Club - Club Committee Chairperson, Secretary
-Member of the Student Guild/Body: 9, 10
-Green House Captain: 11 (you can only hold this position for a year, I'd do it for longer)
-Round Square Conference Delegate (twice): Regional Conference Singapore (9th grade), International Conference Canada (11th grade)</p>

<p>SERVICE:
-Over 300 hours
-Amnesty International: I initiated the 'Educate the Slums' project - we took in a group of underprivileged Thai children from the slums, built them a school and taught them English.
-Interact Rotary: I initiated the 'Plastic Bottle Project' - raising money through recycling, then donating to the 'Baan Jing Jai orphanage', where I also volunteered as a painter to repaint the building.
-Mercy Centre Orphanage: garden work
-Clean Up The World: around 20-30 hours of cleaning beaches and forests</p>

<p>CREATIVE/SPORT:
-School play (every year - 9th, 10th, 11th - not 12th, but also during 7th and 8th grades)
-Learn and play guitar - 4 years
-Learn and play piano - 5 years
-Member of the 'Burapha Golf' Tennis Club - 4 years
-Been to Stanford for a computer programming summer camp. It wasn't Stanford initiative, just took place in Stanford. 4 weeks on campus.</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE (paid):
-I have my own web design company which I operate with my friends via the internet. We cater mostly to local business in the city where I live at the moment (in Thailand.)
-Adobe FLASH tutor - tutoring primary-middle school kids (web design, animation, game design)
-Don't know if you'd call this exactly work experience, but I tutor middle-school kids for the IGCSE Double Award Science exams</p>

<p>AWARDS:
-International/Duke of Edinburgh Award - Silver
-First in Chemistry in my school 11th grade
-First in Physics in my school 11th grade
-Second in Math in my school 11th grade
-First in Spanish in my school 11th grade
-Diligence for Business 11th grade
-Academic Excellence Award 11th grade (only 1 of those :P)
-English Department Award - 10th grade
-Round Square Student Award (Environmentalism, Internationalism, Service, Leadership)
(and I won loads in previous years, basically they're mostly the same every year. When I did Drama before grade 9, I used to get that one too lol)</p>

<p>I think that's about all the details you need.
I'll add if I forgot something :)</p>

<p>If you've got any recommendations for other colleges I should apply for, that'd be great too.</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

<p>Oh my god,</p>

<p>You’ll get in, American Ivies love diversity. As long as you write a sound essay, you’ll definitely be accepted.</p>

<p>Hey, thanks :slight_smile:
You’ve made my day.
I’ve got to admit, while there aren’t many opportunities for inter/national Math olympiads or things of the sort in my school - it does give us so many opportunities to change the world.</p>

<p>Anyone else?:)</p>

<p>BumpBumpBump</p>

<p>I’d say you have a shot at all the schools in your list (probably with the exception of Caltech - they usually admit someone with higher SAT scores, etc). However, admissions is a crapshoot for all the Ivies. Good luck anyway!</p>

<p>lol pleease get in, i´ve got quite similar stats (maybe a bit worse ^^ man you really hit on As), if you do, then i have a chance too
but you seem like an amazing applicant, show how much your diverse background affected your ability to insightfully observe other cultures in your essays, and you deffo are in :slight_smile: i envy you for ur sats, mine are slightly worse (retaking them in jjanuary tho)</p>

<p>bumpbumpbump</p>

<p>Anyone else please?</p>

<p>Your SAT is pretty low for the colleges you are looking at. Harvard, Princeton, and Caltech will lower your chances.</p>

<p>But just a note, you should try to not to sound arrogant when you are writing your essays.</p>

<p>u dont need a chance lol </p>

<p>u r in 4 all </p>

<p>Ur Ec’s and Academics achivements are awsum </p>

<p>Gud Luck :)</p>

<p>Hey, thanks for all the repliers so far. I feel a little more confident now.
Thanks.</p>

<p>Would appreciate it if more people could reply</p>

<p>Bumping again</p>

<p>I’ll chance back if you want</p>

<p>Bumpity…
This thread was already on the 2nd page, how come everyone else gets tons of replies?</p>

<p>BUMP!
Just got my SATII Scores:
Mathematics Level 2: 720
Physics: 730</p>

<p>Can you re-review my profile and chance me based on these scores?
Are they bad for the schools I want to go to? (remember, dreamschool = stanford)</p>

<p>bumpppp…p…</p>