<p>Hi all! </p>
<p>I'm currently in my Junior year, and worrying worrying worrying about 'getting in'! I live in the Netherlands, where the school system is quite different (No GPA's etc.), so I was wondering if you could change me! I want to apply to (yeah, maybe I'm a bit too hopefull): Harvard, Yale, MIT, Penn (Wharton), University of Chicago, NYU and Columbia (and maybe I'll pick a more realistic one as well haha)! </p>
<p>Oke, the facts: </p>
<p>GPA: Unknown, my grade average is a 9 out of 10 (Note: the average grade is a 6.5, 9s are VERY rare; also, I'm enrolled in the most demanding school type available in the Netherlands --> virtually a hundred percent of the students goes to university afterwards) </p>
<p>Courses:
Ancient Greek: 9 (A)
Latin: 9 (A)
Economics: 10 (A)
German: 9.5 (A)
Dutch: 9 (A)
Advanced Maths: 8.5 (A)
Biology: 9 (A)
Science: 10 (A)
PE: 7 (B-?)
Society Studies: 10 (A)
History: 9 (A)
Geography: 9 (A)
English: 10 (A) </p>
<p>(In Holland, courses take 4 or 6 years! No one-semester long courses available) </p>
<p>As for AP's, my school offers none, but I plan to take (self-study)
U.S. Politics, Micro-economics, Calculus, English Literature and Biology this year, and World History, Statistics, Macro economics and German next year..
(Please reflect: Are these smart choices? I want to major in economics/ get an MBA after undergrad) </p>
<p>TOEFL: 120
SAT: Not yet token, shouldn't be too much of a problem (average score
in prep tests was around 1580 (writing excluded) I guess?) --> Plan to take Latin, World History, Maths level II as subject tests </p>
<p>Extra-curricular activities:
- I'm currently enrolled in a 2 year pre-university program at a quite prestigious Dutch university, where I do research on a university level as well..
- I'm the head-editor of my school paper
- I've been private tutoring students for a while
- I've made my own private tutoring business (we have a turnover of around 6000 euros/9000 dollars a year) at my school...
- I've been class president for 3 years now
- I've played soccer (FOOTBALL!) for over 8 years
- I play golf, tennis and I sail and row..
- I headed several initiatives at school
- I've done debating at school for a while
- I'm competing for a national award now, but unfortunately in the Netherlands awards and such aren't really offered
- I've attended a summer school at St. Andrews in Scotland where I took debate and golf.. And I plan to go to Harvard summer school or columbia this year..
- I've been trying some stockmarket-stuff for a year now.. (which went pretty well XD considering the state of the economy)</p>
<p>My school doesnt really offer a lot of extracurricular activities,
I'm already at the maximum... I hope this isn't shamefully little.. </p>
<p>Second big problem: I'm the first student at my school to try US universities (quite a lot of people go to Oxbridge though) , so my school isnt really a big help (they only keep transcripts for two years for example --> which means only junior and senior year) and plus, I don't think my English is good enough (in spite of my high toefl score..), furthermore, my courses taken kind of lack science-subjects... </p>
<p>Well, sorry, way to much text!</p>
<p>Thank you very much for reading this all!</p>