chance me, please!

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<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 chance 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>

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<p>Anyone?! .. Please (A)?</p>

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<p>It's people like you who make other current international juniors (like me) tremble :). Great profile.</p>

<p>Do you need financial aid?</p>

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<p>Woow! Thank you!</p>

<p>I do need financial aid, so I picked universities that offer need-blind aid to international students as well (Harvard, Yale, MIT,) And I might swap some others one my list (Chicago) for i.e. Princeton or Darthmouth, who offer it as well!</p>

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<p>Well, I guess you already know the rock-bottom acceptance rates of all the colleges on your list, so do be sure to find some schools where you can get nice merit scholarships without much trouble.</p>

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<p>Well, I guess you already know the rock-bottom acceptance rates of all the colleges on your list, so do be sure to find some schools where you can get nice merit scholarships without much trouble.</p>

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<p>Well, I guess you already know the rock-bottom acceptance rates of all the colleges on your list, so do be sure to find some schools where you can get nice merit scholarships without much trouble.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I was thinking about adding some less 1 out of a 27.000 ones!
I also plan to apply to some UK uni's, I'm pretty confident about getting in Oxford's PPE program or LSE (since several people from my school went there the last couple of years, and they had lesser stats than me!); I'm also trying the Uni of Edinburgh as a 'safety net'.</p>

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<p>That's great - Edinburgh is a well-reputed university, a nice place to have as your 'safety net' ;). And if you could make Oxford and LSE, well, that would make life a whole lot easier in case things don't work out (damn you, financial aid!) in the states.</p>