I’m an international student lookig to apply to UVA this fall. Please chance me for UVA and comment on how good/bad my ECs are
Academics:
Grades: AAAA for A-level literature, maths, chemistry, economics
SAT: 2050 - will retake in oct (i was really sick during the time i took my last SAT and it went badly)
SAT II: 790 Math 2, 780 Chem
Applying for financial aid: No i wont be applying for aid
ECs:
-Student Council (9,11,12) - President (9,11,12)
-Eco-committee (9,10,11,12) - Co-founder (9), President (11,12) - this a committee that works on environmental issues in the school and local community, I’ve started multiple projects withing the school
-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 a year tho
Job/Work Experience: unpaid internship at national magazine during summer before grade 11 and grade 12 (i write and translate articles and do a lot of office tasks)
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.