Hi, I’m an international female student from Vietnam. Im looking to apply to Tulane for EA this fall, please help me with my chances:
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): I’m doing A level. My grades are AAAA
Ranking: I’m 1st in my class of 40 (my school is new and its a pretty expensive private school so not that 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 bronze medal grade 9, UKMT math challenge bronze medal grade 11, Best presentation for City Enterprise Challenge, Best in school for Economics, Literature, Vietnamese, ICT, Science and highest IGCSE scores in school (I dont know if these are consider major tho)
Subjective:
-Student Council (9,11,12) - President (9,11,12)
-Eco-committee (9,10,11,12) - Co-founder (9), President (11,12) - works on environmental issues in the school and local community
-Community service club (10,11,12) - Co-founder (10), President (12) - set up an official fundraiser and fundraising system for the school, organize multiple book drives, clothes drive, fund raising events within school for local orphanages etc
-Mentoring (11,12) - mentor 2 students in Maths and Economics during grade 11 and I’m setting up a whole school mentoring system that gets a senior year student to mentor a younger year student in grade 12
-Chairwoman of “Into The Cold seminar” - this is a seminar where I co-operate with my school and a PR firm in bringing a Hong Kong environmentalist to Vietnam to deliver 3 session of speeches for 4 days at my school and 2 other campuses of my school, and event with 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
-Piano (10 years) - taking Yamaha course (it’s a japanese piano program and I’m grade 5 ) and performed at local shows and took part in a drama with the student at my piano school every year
-Swimming (6 years) - train with personal coach at local swimming pool was on the school swim team only for year 11,12
Job/Work Experience: unpaid internship at national magazine during summer before grade 11 and grade 12
Volunteer/Community service:
- Volunteer at local orphanages with school community club, summer volunteering at pagoda (teaching english)
- I form an English tutor group (I’m head of the tutor group) of 5 mentors and travel to 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
-Joined a summer camp (this camp trains young people with academic, life skills, NLP, goal setting, etc) - I was a camp leader when I joined it in summer before grade 11 and return as a camp mentor (I 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.
Recommendations
-Teacher 1: Economics teacher-we have great relationships and i work with her during the saigon enterprise challenge and set up mentoring system
-Teacher 2: English teacher - also great relationships and I’m the best student in English class throughout all high school
-Counselor rec: my school doesnt have an official counselor so my vice prinipal is writing this - he knows me very well bc i work with him in multiple projects in the school
-Add rec: the professor that I’m in the coaching program/summer camp with - he is a well-known trainer in NLP