Chance International Student: Columbia, NYU, UCLA, USC, Berkley

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<p>International student attending high ranking private school, using the English A-Level system. I speak English, Dutch and German. </p>

<p>SAT: Taking in January
GPA: N/A </p>

<p>A-Levels:
(Taking next year)
- German
- Mathematics
- Geography
- History</p>

<p>GCSE Grades (A* - U):
German A* (taken 2 years early)
History A*
Geography A*
Dutch A* (taken 1 year early)
French A* (taken 2 years early)
Biology A*
Economics A*
Math A
Art A
English Literature A
English Language A</p>

<p>AS Grades (A - U)
(took one early, doing the rest this year)
German A</p>

<p>Extra Curricular Activities:
- School Christmas Bazaar Committee (only a select group of students) - 2 years
- On artistic subcommittee of Christmas Bazaar Committee - 2 years
- Committee Member of school's prom - 1 year
- Charity head for one of my school's charities - 1 year
- Model United Nations: Head of Press Corps - 1 year
- Debate Team - 2 years
- Yearbook Committee (only available to juniors) - 1 year
- Squash Team - 1 year
- School Newspaper - 1 year
- Competitive Swimming - 2 years
- International Social Services volunteer work (help ethnic minorities with homework) - 1 year
- Society for Deaf volunteer work (help hearing impaired children learn English) - 1 year</p>

<p>Awards:
- Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award
- Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award
- An Award of Merit for creating a promotional video for my school's redevelopment plans.
- Bronze Service Hours Award</p>

<p>Experience:
- I created a promotional video for my country's annual Jazz Festival.
- I documented my school's fashion show backstage and made a video thereof.</p>

<p>Extras:
- I plan on taking 5 AS levels (one of which I did early achieveing the top grade) and 4 A-Levels.
- My school has a strong history of sending students to Colleges such as Harvard, Brown, Cambridge (UK) , HKU etc.
- Attended a summer course at Brown University this past summer that required a selective application process.
- Graduating: 2014</p>

<p>I understand it may be difficult to judge from the information given above as I am still a junior, but I will be grateful for any opinions and advice on how to improve!</p>

<p>I am interested in doing liberal arts or attending film school at the following colleges:
Columbia
NYU
UCLA
USC
UC Berkley</p>

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<p>Also, will US schools be more interested in report card grades or external exam grades (those I received for my GCSEs, AS, A-Levels etc.)?</p>

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<p>Bump! I would really appreciate some opinions!</p>

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<p>bump! bump!</p>

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<p>Wow! I am international student too and will be graduating in 2014. I took the IGCSEs as well and I must say you have absolutely stellar GCSE grades! Your ECAs look great as well. But I think it also depends on around how much do you think you can score on the SAT/ACT? Do you have any sort of range you think you can get? Looks like you stand a good chance at all those schools though! Chance me as well if you have the time! Good luck with your applications!</p>

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<p>It’s hard to chance you with no idea what your SAT scores are. If you get 2100+, the following should be true</p>

<p>Columbia- reach
NYU - low match
Cal, UCLA - matches
USC - low match</p>

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<p>Thanks very much for your responses!</p>