Chance me for Architecture? ** Portfolio included :)

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<p>Hi, I'm a junior this year and Cornell is my first choice!</p>

<p>My high school is the LARGEST international school in the world and offers the most APs (good thing or bad thing-- I don't know :P). It's an American school in Asia.</p>

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<p>School Type: Private
Location: Singapore <-- really small country in Asia
Race/Gender: Asian/Female (American citizen)
Unweighted GPA: 3.93
Class rank: School only discloses it to our colleges.</p>

<p>PORTFOLIO (tell me what I need to show more of! I am actually an oil painter and acrylic painter, but I was told that schools like to see more drawings from still life/figure drawings):</p>

<p><a href="http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/558978735cxFNhG%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://entertainment.webshots.com/album/558978735cxFNhG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<li>will graduate with 9 APs
** denotes honors</li>
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<p>Freshman: English 9, Spanish II, Concert Band<strong>, Acting I, Yoga, Alg II/Trig</strong>, Molecular Biology**, History of Japan/Korea, History of China</p>

<p>Sophomore: American Studies (US History + English), Spanish III, Studio Art II (skipped Studio Art I because I showed the teacher my portfolio), Accelerated Chemistry<strong>, Pre-calc</strong>, Weight training, AutoCAD, Aquatics II</p>

<p>Junior: AP Lang, AP Calc AB, AP Physics B, AP Studio Art: Drawing, Lifeguarding (I'm certified), Psychology, Spanish IV, Macromedia Flash, Modern Asian Perspectives</p>

<p>Senior: AP Spanish, AP Stats, AP Environmental Science, AP Art History, AP Art: 3D, Health, Tragedy/Comedy, Studies in Satire, </p>

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<p>Haven't taken APs yet, but my mocks were:
AP Studio Art: Drawing: projected 5 for AP
AP Physics: 4
AP Calc AB: 3 (it was RIGHT after my Track Championships. Aiming for a high 4 or 5 on actual exam.)
AP Lang: ???</p>

<p>SAT I Score (planning to retake in June)
SAT I Math: 660
SAT I Critical Reading: 650
SAT I Writing: 700/11</p>

<p>SAT II (I am planning to take + projected scores)
Math IIC: 780-800 (I am 90% confident in this prediction)
Physics: ???
Spanish w/ Listening: ???
Literature (if I bomb physics): ???</p>

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<p>CUMULATIVE COMMUNITY SERVICE HOURS: 200+</p>

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<li>Cross country (JV, V, V):</li>
<li>girls are 8-year champions for this league of international schools in South East Asia (called IASAS)</li>
<li>Practices are 2hrs/day</li>
<li><p>10th place for a Malaysia-Singapore 10K run... woohoo I won $50! (signed up by myself, not for school)</p></li>
<li><p>Track & Field (V, V, V):</p></li>
<li><p>girls were 11-year champions for IASAS until last week (GRR!!)</p></li>
<li><p>ran in under-20 Singapore National Championships all 3 years of HS (3K-10th place, 1.5K-4th place, 800m-(cancelled this year, but 7th place as Soph), 4x800m-3rd)</p></li>
<li><p>Practices are 2hrs/day + races and exchanges each week.</p></li>
<li><p>Student Council (Soph, Jr, will also do Snr)</p></li>
<li><p>Sophomore Communications Director (advertising, promoting, etc.)</p></li>
<li><p>Executive Council Communications Director (Exec council looks over all the class councils. I was the only Junior on the council, everyone else were Seniors).</p></li>
<li><p>I have been elected as Executive Council Vice President for Senior year</p></li>
<li><p>9+ hours per week</p></li>
<li><p>Ushers' Society (Soph, Jr)</p></li>
<li><p>ONLY representative for the club</p></li>
<li><p>Provides ushers for shows/graduation ceremony/etc...</p></li>
<li><p>Official photographer for a 3-day arts convention (42+ hours for this alone)</p></li>
<li><p>Community service in China (not really extracurricular club, it's my personal interest because I used to live in a dingy city in China)</p></li>
<li><p>I am part of a charity club at school called Aiding China.</p></li>
<li><p>I organized my OWN month-long charity trip to Northern China to help mentally-challenged children in school. Plane tickets, housing, food, transport, etc, etc were all self-planned because I HATE HATE HATE those scamming charity trip organizers and want to AVOID paying thousands of dollars only to find out that half of it gets eaten up by some sketchy "non-profit" organization. GRR!!!! I don't know if this is passion/initiative, but it definitely shows that I won't just sit back and let injustice prevail haha.</p></li>
<li><p>Other stuff that isn't worth mentioning on it's own:</p></li>
<li><p>NHS (National Honor Society), SHS (Spanish), NAHS (art), NHSS(the National High School Scholars one)</p></li>
<li><p>Athletic Council (help run/time sports exchanges/meets during my off-season)</p></li>
<li><p>Designed: posters, bags, sweatshirts, polos, logos, hallways, murals, websites, etc. (These probably will just be mentioned, not included in my portfolio.)</p></li>
<li><p>Piano</p></li>
<li><p>ABRSM (Royal school of music, a British-based exam)</p>

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<p>Soph-Jr:</p>

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<p>Jr-Snr:</p>

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<p>Awards:
* AP Scholar
* Honor roll 2 semeters, High Honors (>4.0 GPA) for 4 semesters.</p>

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<p>Other Info</p>

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<li>School organizes 1-week "interim semester" trips each year:</li>
<li>Freshman yr: Habitat for Humanity, built 2 houses in Northern Thailand</li>
<li>Soph yr: to save money, stayed in Singapore and earned a sailing liscence.</li>
<li><p>Jr yr: went to Northern Spain for immersion program and homestay.</p></li>
<li><p>Teacher Recs</p></li>
<li><p>AP Art History teacher: used to be an AP grader, teaching for 20-30 years, husband is an architect, had me in 4th grade and 9th grade... I'm confident she'll know exactly what to write! </p></li>
<li><p>Modern Asian Perspectives teacher: young teacher, but the class is project-based so he knows I'm super pro-active, organized, etc... and also a sponsor for student council so he knows my 'leadership' side.</p></li>
<li><p>Art teacher: will have me for 3 years. Pretty tight with her. </p></li>
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<p>THANKS SO MUCH! Sorry this was so long!!!</p>

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<p>why isn't your summer college work in your portfolio? your academic credentials and extracurricular activites are pretty good. how well did you do in summer college?</p>

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<p>I'm going in about 2 months, that's why! :)</p>

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<p>my best advice would be to really impress your TA's this summer. do REALLY well because your TA's write evaluations of you (and you don't get to see them either) and those will heavily determine your chances. produce good work for your portfolio..best of luck!</p>

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<p>From just this profilio it looks like you're more of an arts major than an architecture major...they have an arts major in the school too</p>

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<p>the portfolio looks great
from my point of view, however, most of the pictures look very similar. you should try to create more diversity (use different media, try some different subjects other than people and buildings...etc)</p>

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<p>Thanks sashimi, apple, & rocen for the advice.</p>

<p>Hopefully, next year, during AP Art 3D, I'll have some more abstract/different works to include in my portfolio.</p>

<p>And I hope a make a good impression over summer! 6 weeks is a LONG time hhaha... wow.</p>

<p>& Appleapple, do you know if I can do something with art while doing architecture? I'd like to think of architecture as applied art that surrounds you which interests me more. I would LIKE to continue doing stuff in art, but I hear that architecture eats up your time, soOOooo...??? I read on CC that someone's girlfriend is in the architecture program and takes art classes, but I'm not sure if she is doing some kind of double major or whatever.</p>

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<p>chisquared-VERY HARD. don't do it unless you absolutely have to. studio life by itself is already so intense already</p>

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<p>umm I have a friend who is just an art major, its part of the same school... so it will be very easy for you to take art classes. I know Cornell has amazing classes especially in stuff like sculpture. I've seen some of the stuff they've doen and it's just amazing...</p>

<p>but I agree with Sashimi....Architecture school is ALOT of work. Every saturaday since the beginning of the year, ive seen arch. students stand in Rand hall on sat. nights working. Most of them would stay there and live there if they had hte choice. So unless you're 150% committed....</p>

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<p>Ahhh okay! I'll just take it as an elective, I guess.</p>

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<p>Oh, the coolest thing arch. ppl do is dragon day.... where they build a dragon and burn it. The engineering project team builds a phenoix and the art kids build a bunny. (or at least they built one two years ago...look <a href="http://photos-665.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v15/68/49/416145/n416145_30451665_5186.jpg%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://photos-665.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v15/68/49/416145/n416145_30451665_5186.jpg&lt;/a> )</p>

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<p>HAhhhah!! I knew about dragon day, but the bunny!? WHAT!? lol</p>

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<p>ok, your pastel and color work- colored pencils- particularly the still lifes are beautiful. I think weakness is in your pencils drawings and figures- the faces dont turn out right all the time and i see some proportion issues. Overall i think its a great profolio to submit. </p>

<p>i am a little concerned by your projections- in the math II- if you got a 660 in math sat 1 you aren't getting beyond the low 700's at best, unless you really messed up your sat 1's which happens, if i were you i would retake my sats again. try for above a 2100 or at least a solid 2000's range. </p>

<p>good luck- Cornell is a good choice- you can get in with these stats- just pick up those sat 1 scores</p>

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<p>meh, i've seen better portfolios from kids at my school</p>

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<p>I am aplyying for Cornell graduate school. Here is 15 first pages online. I would appreciate any opinion. I am aplying from Panama, Republic of Panama.</p>

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