Chance me for carroll! I will chance back please! Its my friggin future

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<p>Hello<br>
Please chance me and I will chance everyone back T_T
ok so first about myself:</p>

<p>School: Brent International School Manila (It’s in the Philippines)
Nationality: Korean (<-- please consider this carefully…)</p>

<p>Weighted GPA: 3.92 (our school doesn’t have unweighted)
Rank: 4 (but again… our school doesn’t use the ranking system)
Percentile: top 3%</p>

<p>SAT I: CR 620 Math 800 Writing 680 Essay: 11 Total: 2100
SAT II: Math 2C 760 I also took Chinese and Physics but I wont reveal :S</p>

<p>Courses (IB):
IB HL Physics
IB HL Math
IB HL English A1
IB HL Economics
IB SL History
IB SL Chinese
Theory of Knowledge
Advanced Band</p>

<p>Course Load: probably the most rigorous out of the entire school… -_-</p>

<p>Essay: i guess its ok… 750 words… my friend described it as an essay “written by a nobel peace prize winner”… but i dnt knw… edited 15 times overall lolz</p>

<p>Teacher Recommendation: Good. One was from my most hated teacher which would be interesting </p>

<p>Awards:
-EARCOS Global Citizenship Award (11) – award presented to a student who embraces the qualities of a global citizen. One out of 53 recipients in the East Asia Region. Please see: East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools
-Rensselaer Medal (11) - $15,000 per year merit scholarship to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as top Math/Science student (oh baby)
-Canadian Math Contest (Fermat) by University of Waterloo (11) – Certificate of Distinction: Bronze Standard
-Bishop Brent Scholar’s Award (10-11)
-Brent Headmaster’s Award (9)</p>

<p>Leadership:

  • Executive Student Council - President (12)
  • Executive Student Council -Treasurer (11)
  • Sophomore Batch Council - Vice President (10)
  • Freshmen Batch Council - Vice President (9)
  • Advanced Band - Flute Section Leader (9-12)
  • Asia Pacific Athletic Conference: Band - Flute Section Leader (10-12)
  • Jazz Band – Alto Sax Section leader (10-12)</p>

<p>Activities:
-Model United Nations Club (9-12)
-Asia Pacific Athletic Conference (APAC)1 Model United Nations (10, 12) – Beijing Model United Nations Conference (BEIMUN)
-Model United Nations Assembly (9-12) – Chair (12), in World Health Organization building in the Philippines.
-National Honor Society (10-12)
-Asia Pacific Athletic Conference (APAC) Choir (12) – Tenor, held in Brent International School Manila
-Asia Pacific Athletic Conference (APAC) Band (10-12) – Flute, Piccolo, held in Canadian Academy, Hong Kong International School, Shanghai American School, Pudong.
-Advanced Band (9-12) - Flute, Piccolo. School featured Soloist (12) -“Hungarian Pastorale Fantasie” by A. Doppler
-Jazz Band (Alto/Soprano Saxophone 10-12) – Soloist (10-12)
-Chamber Winds Ensemble (11) – Soloist (11)
-Dance Ensemble of Major Production “Pippin” (10)
-Hip-Hop Club (10)]</p>

<p>Sports:
-Varsity Tennis (11)
-Aqualions (Varsity Swim Team, 9, 10, 12)</p>

<p>Community Service:
-Binan Christmas Bucket Charity (9-12) – Community Service Project run by the Executive Student Council each year. Raised an equivalent of $4,400 to help out over 700 families in a nearby province of Binan, Laguna.
-Typhoon Ondoy Relief Project (12) – Community Service Project initiated by student leaders and administrators to help out the damage done by Typhoon Ondoy or better known as Typhoon Ketsana.
-“Gawad Kalinga” Community Service Program (9-12) – school service project to build a village called “Gawad Kalinga” with houses and a school for underprivileged families.
-“Gawad Kalinga” Tutoring (11-12) – trip to the village “Gawad Kalinga” on Saturdays to tutor the children
-Orientation on Model United Nations to college students (11-12) – introduction to College Students on what Model United Nation is.
-National Honor Society Tutoring (11,12) – helping out the students who are in need for help in certain subject areas. Math, SAT, Physics, Economics</p>

<p>Academic Programs:

  • Educational Program for the Gifted Youth at Stanford University (Topics in Economics course) (2009 June – July, 3 weeks)</p>

<p>Oh and I’m planning to take business
Wow what a list… anyways these are the places I applied:</p>

<p>Cornell AEM - rejected T_T
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (Undergraduate Business) - Admitted!
Indiana University (Kelley School of Business) - Admitted!!!</p>

<p>PLEASE CHANCE ME CARROLL IS MY FRICKIN DREAM SCHOOL… thank you :D</p>

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<p>you should be alright. but im not exactly sure how tough BC is regarding international applicants so take my opinion with a grain of salt. i would imagine that you would be quite competitive if you resided within the US, but international applicants are probably analyzed much harder and held up to a higher standard. either way, keep your hopes up! good luck!</p>

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<p>thank you!!! yeah i heard its really tough for international applicants… esp i heard its tough for carroll… but yeah i hope i get in T_T thanks</p>

<p>oh my TOEFL score is 116 btw… if that helps :P</p>

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<p>Bump/////// n’ grind</p>

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<p>There is no need to bump your thread while it’s still in the top three threads on the forum. In case you have not noticed (which you probably have not), do not expect a response in a few hours, because there are only a few people that are regulars in this threads and even fewer who reply to “chance me” threads. </p>

<p>In addition, how do you expect to “chance” someone if you have not been accepted? I just feel like you would need to have some idea of the standards BC holds when it accepts students in order to give a realistic response instead of a naive one. </p>

<p>Sorry for the rant, but I felt it was needed. </p>

<p>Moving on, the only thing I can add is the acceptance rate for international students is 21%, slightly under the acceptance rate for domestic students. BC’s factbook does not provide any insight on the SATs for international students. Perhaps scottj can shed some light.</p>

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<p>Dear discussion : As mentioned by miragemage, the overall acceptance rate for internationals trails the regular acceptance pool by a reasonable distance statistically. Now, one of the economic problems that Boston College is facing with international students (and all students) this year is how the funding picture comes together. The international student might face a major financial challenge even after acceptance is granted. We will keep the financial issues to the side for now and look at your numbers and profile elements.</p>

<p>Your SAT critical reading score is just into the third quartile (barely) while your math score is certainly eye catching. The combined two-way 1420 is certainly top quartile material when combined and your SAT writing section is certainly midpoint or better. Again, the problem is that with 1-in-5 international applications being accepted, you need to position your statistics to be in the top quintile of your cohort group.</p>

<p>Your award to RPI is significant and might represent a decision point for you. You might find the RPI technical curriculum more in line with what you are seeking despite your business interests. Remember that the RPI scholarship will NOT follow you to your acceptance list schools and, to that end, is meaningless in a business context. </p>

<p>Your activities and community service are beyond reproach - congratulations for the leadership skills you are showing in multiple disciplines.</p>

<p>We strongly urge you to contact “college2007”, a member of the Boston College college confidential community seeking a transfer to BC. “college2007” has a significant amount of information about the Kelley School that might underscore or undermine your view of that school. Please reach out to him for more information.</p>

<p>The fact that you have a teacher recommendation from a “hated” teacher in your application without any review is very concerning. Your rejection from Cornell is also concerning - not so much that you will not be going there, but a deferral would have been a better position. Rejections typically mean that you were in the bottom third or worse in the applicant pool which might point to essay and recommendation issues.</p>

<p>Note, I have tremendous respect for the Fermat contest, but again, that would have been a selling card into mathematics/science, not as much into the business world. (My graduate degree and my university teaching experience is in mathematics and computer sciences.)</p>

<p>So, where does all of this leave us? Honestly, you are likely in the 40%-60% acceptance vs. rejection mark. You are better off than the random lot being 20%-80%, but the reasons around the Cornell rejection are still opaque and concerning. Good luck.</p>

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<p>you’re in. i got in the A&S with a 760-m, 610-cr, and 680-wr. you’re set</p>

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<p>anyone else??? i really need a lot of detailed answers T_T</p>

<p>bump</p>

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<p>buamwp/////////////////////////////////////////</p>

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<p>Discussion:
What are you hoping to hear that you haven’t heard already?</p>

<p>You’ve posted to several school threads that they are each your dream school and are also your f…in future. You will be hearing from all these schools over the next four weeks. How could any new information on this forum change anything at this point?</p>

<p>Do you have any sense of why you were rejected from Cornell?</p>

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<p>Perhaps it was the OP’s liberal use of such erudite vocabulary as “friggin”?</p>

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<p>^^^^</p>

<p>and jaded AIM acronyms like “lolz”.</p>

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<p>burnn…maybe you should just stop bumping people are tossing you</p>

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<p>Ehehehehe toss me all u like cuz i got in ahahahhaha</p>