Hi, I’m a Vietnamese international student looking to apply to Cornell for the class of 2020. Please chance me
Objective:
SAT I: 2050 (will retake in Oct, that SAT was low but I currently get abt 2200 on practice tests)
SAT II: 790 Math II, 780 Chemistry
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): doing A level. My grades are AAAA
Ranking: I’m 1st in my class of 40 (my school is new and its a private school so not many students)
Senior Year Course Load: A level Chemistry, Maths, Literature, Economics
Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
-1st place for public speaking contest in grade 9
-Principal Award for International Understanding grade 9
-Principal’s most honorable award for best student in grade 11
-UKMT math challenge silver medal grade 9
-UKMT math challenge bronze medal grade 11
-Best presentation for City Enterprise Challenge
-1st Place City Championship swimming
-Best in school for Economics, Literature, Vietnamese, ICT, Science and highest IGCSE scores in school
Subjective:
-Student Council (9,10,11,12) - President (9,11,12)
-Eco-committee (9,10,11,12) - Co-founder (9), President (10,11,12) - works on environmental issues in the school and local community
-Community service club (9,10,11,12) - Co-founder (9) President (12) - set up an official fundraiser and fundraising system for the school, organize fund raising events for local orphanages
-Mentoring (11,12) - mentor 2 students in Maths and Economics (11), set up a whole school mentoring system (12)
-Chairwoman of “Into The Cold seminar” - I co-operate with my school in bringing a Hong Kong environmentalist to Vietnam to deliver 3 seminars for my school and the local community
-In the midst of founding an NGO in co-operation with 2 other schools to recycle used items and make them into artworks then sell them for auctions to get money to support sex-ed in rural areas of my countries (this is still in the process of planning, will be implement in september)
-Piano (10 years) - taking Yamaha course, grade 5, performed at local shows and took part in a drama with my piano school every year
-Swimming (6 years) - train with personal coach at local swimming pool was on the school swim team for year 11,12
Job/Work Experience: internship at national magazine during summer, translate article during school year
Volunteer/Community service:
- Volunteer at local orphanages with school community club, summer volunteering at pagoda (teaching english)
- Set up a tutor group to design an English teaching program and book drive for a pagoda in a province and teach English for 50 kids every summer
-Estimated volunteer hours: estimated 150 hours
Summer Activities:
-Internship at national magazine
-English teaching for kids at the pagoda
-summer camp (this camp trains young people with academic, life skills, NLP, goal setting, etc) - was camp leader in summer before grade 11 and return as a camp mentor (was Team leader of the mentor group) in summer before grade 12. I’m also in a coaching program with the professor who is also the lead mentor of the camp.