I’m a rising high school senior in China. My school teaches in Chinese and does not offer AP or IB classes, so I only have a 3 on AP Calculus BC, which was self-learned…
Barnard is my ED school, and I’m also applying to UVA, Fordham, NYU, BC, UCLA, UCB
-SAT I (the new SAT): 1460 in total, Mathematics 780, taking it again in October
-SAT II: Mathematics 790, US History 640 (like my AP Calculus, I studied us history by myself)
-GPA: 85 (100)
Extracurricular Activities:
-Public Forum Debater
-Starting from 10th grade
-Runner-up price, best second speaker, -Beijing regional
-Top 8, national championship
-participated in Harvard Debate Tournament in 2017 winter, international division
-Worked at Sevenages Musical
-six weeks
-showed the audiences their seats, sold musical related stuff, cleaned up the auditorium after the audiences left
-I have always LOVED musical!!!
-Editor in chief of school newspaper
-started from ninth grade
-organizing weekly meetings and making decisions about what goes on the newspaper etc.
-Founder and president of Imminent Charity Club
-started from ninth grade
-We helped children with eye problems
-I have raised over 3000 RMB by myself for the children
-We go visit the children twice a month, and each time we go over, we would bring little presents for them
-Guzheng player and composer, Hulusi flute player
-both of them are traditional Chinese instruments
-I’ve been playing the Guzheng since I was three. Love it
-I compose some pieces of music and play them in front my family during important holidays, like the spring festival
-Have taken college courses in Uchicago
-both of them are A-
-both of them are about literature, one poetry and one gothic fiction
-got an additional rec from a professor
-Participated in a short term exchange program to Austria for two weeks
-it’s a school program so it’s during school time
-did some cultural-exchange things
-Captain of the debate team of my grade for two years
-This is different from the first one cuz in this case I debate in Chinese…
-best speaker for two years
-Writer, having an official individual Wechat account
-I write about my thoughts on musicals and movies, my travel experiences, and everything I find with writing about!
-it now has 5000 hits!
-Lead of the choir for three years
-have auditioned and got a second callback of Mulan, the Disney movie. Not exactly a good activity, but a fun thing to tell~
Thanks for help!!! I really love Barnard and would really love to see other’s opinions on my chances