Chance for Princeton

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<p>Hey, I'm a male senior in an international school in Hong Kong. </p>

<p>Ethnicity: Chinese-Indonesian
Citizenship: Australian and British
I have lived in Hong Kong for 13 years.</p>

<p>Major: Engineering</p>

<p>SAT 1
2000 (600 CR, 760 M, 640W) - Just retook them. Going to be around 2100. </p>

<p>SAT 2
Chemistry: 740
Maths 2: 790</p>

<p>Straight A and A* in GCSE. I am taking the IB Diploma right now and I am predicted a 40-42 out of 45.
HL Chemistry - 6
HL Maths - 6
HL Music - 7
SL English - 6/7
SL French - 6
SL Economics - 7
TOK - 2/3</p>

<p>EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES</p>

<p>Swimming (10 years)
- Hong Kong National and Junior Swimming Squad
- Represented Hong Kong at overseas meets
- Nationally ranked 4th in Hong Kong
- Team MVP 4 years in a row (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)
- ESF Best Male Swimmer Award 2008
- High School Team Captain
- International Honours 2010
- Hold 10 interschool and school records
- Finished 4th at Hong Kong Olympic Trials.</p>

<p>Piano (8 years) - plan to continue in university
- Grade 8 with Distinction
- Associate Diploma in Piano Performance from Trinity College, UK.
- Regularly take part in local concerts, festivals and competitions.
- Bronze in Composer of the Year 2010 competition.
- Once played in front of a crowd of 5000 people</p>

<p>Violin (7 years) - plan to continue in university
- Grade 8 with Distinction.
- school orchestra, 1st violinist (6 years)
- Orchestra has won three international awards.
- ESF orchestra for 3 years.
- Representative and opening act for my school in the International Conference on Climate Change Hong Kong 2007</p>

<ul>
<li><p>Teaching English to mentally challenged and local non-English speaking students (2 years)</p></li>
<li><p>Service project of teaching English to local and disadvantaged students in Beijing (2008)</p></li>
<li><p>Runner Up of international business competition 'Media-Saturn International Retail Management Competition' 2010</p></li>
<li><p>Play in a band, Kiwi Pilot, as a keyboardist. We play in many local charity concerts to raise money, like Winterfest and Charity Rock Concert in our school (2 years)</p></li>
<li><p>Teaching piano as a private piano tutor (1 year)</p></li>
<li><p>HKAYP Bronze Award for community service (2008)</p></li>
<li><p>Junior Reporter for the Young Post in South China Morning Post, biggest newspaper chain in Hong Kong. Once aided for a live interview for Adam Lambert, American Idol runner up (2009)</p></li>
<li><p>Swimming coach. I have created my own swimming team in school and coached for two years (2009-present)</p></li>
<li><p>Australian Mathematics Competition Award (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)</p></li>
<li><p>UK Mathematics Competition Award (2007, 2008, 2009 2010)</p></li>
</ul>

<p>LEADERSHIP ROLES</p>

<ul>
<li>swimming coach, high school swim captain</li>
<li>piano tutor</li>
<li>Stride for a Cure Project Leader (organized hike to raise money for charity)</li>
<li>Scott House Head of Action</li>
<li>Grade 6 student leader in the School Council</li>
<li>Grade 6, 8 and 10 Scott House Action Representative</li>
</ul>

<p>SUMMERS STUFF</p>

<ul>
<li>Oxford Royale Academy, 2010 (Medicine Program)</li>
<li>Hong Kong Polytechnic University Summer Program, 2010 (Health Science)</li>
<li>Hong Kong University Summer Program, 2008 (Popular Music Composition)</li>
</ul>

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<p>Compare your swim times with the Princeton times. If you’re recruitable, you might have a shot. Short of that, probably not.</p>

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<p>I strongly suggest not putting that EC <em>list</em> in your app. You really have to focus on something. And about the IB, did you have a choice for your exams? You still have it maybe? I’d suggest taking something else than music HL. Maybe you can rack up a 7 there, but why not try English HL instead? (I assume it’s English A) HYP look mainly at your HLs… And Music, well, I don’t know, I understand by your ECs that you are music interested, but if you <em>had</em> the choice of taking other HLs, they will know, and they will take that into consideration. </p>

<p>And like previous poster said, check if you could be a recruited athlete. That would greatly help you. Otherwise, you have a chance, but take time writing your essays, cause it’s that that would take you in; other applicants have much better stats (2300+ SAT and 43-45 at IB…)</p>

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<p>I have to agree with the previous two posters. Your SAT score seems pretty low, but you may be good enough to be recruited to our swim team. Otherwise, your piano, violin, and swim are just nice extracurriculars that wouldn’t add much to our school’s diversity that don’t really suggest you will be successful in college and in life. How good are you at math? I’ve never heard of the UK nor Australian math competitions, but how come your IB and SAT math scores don’t reflect your math expertise?</p>