<p>Hi CC,
My SAT results are in, so I thought I'd give it another whack at a Chances thread. Would appreciate your comments </p>
<p>International student (Australia)</p>
<p>Reaches: HYPS
Matches: Middlebury (slight reach?), Williams, Amherst
Safeties: University of Alaska Southeast, Eastern Oregon University</p>
<p>SATs
760M
740CR
680W</p>
<p>Taking subject tests in June and ACTs in October. Could retake SAT I in October/November as well.</p>
<p>School academics
No GPA (school - no, strike that - nation doesn't issue GPAs)
School doesn't rank, although I'd estimate top five out of 150
No APs/IB/Honors (school doesn't offer)
Transcript looks good, all As throughout HS up until now (might get one or two Bs for 12th grade... hoping to lift them though).</p>
<p>Course load</p>
<h2>All students state-wide must complete a set of five subjects of two years in length (no variance between 11th and 12th grade).</h2>
<p>English Literature
Calculus
World History
Politics and Government
Economics</p>
<h2>Physics (11th grade only)</h2>
<p>Extracurriculars
- State finalist two years running in Model United Nations debating
- National 'Highly Commended' prize in Japanese Embassy essay competition
- State finalist in Veterans' Essay Award (top 25 or so out of hundreds, run by state govt.)
- School debating team each year since 8th grade
- 2009 school chess team (student officer)
- Student Council (one of eight elected members)
- Computational Linguistics Olympiad participant, 2010
- State 'Champion' (First Place) two years in a row (8th and 9th grade) in Chinese as a Second Language State-wide Speaking Competition
- School spelling 'champion' (first place) four years running (I feel like I'm bragging here - it wasn't really that big a deal )
- School drama production major cast member, 9th grade
- Debating, Drama and Public Speaking Captain for 1/8 of the school
- Campaigned for local members of parliament (I think they're 'congressmen' and 'state legislators' in the USA) in 2008 and 2009
That's all I can think of, but I think there are more...</p>
<p>Sport
Badminton (top 20 in school - I'm not very good!)
Others (different throughout HS, nothing worth mentioning)</p>
<p>I work at the local shops on the weekend</p>
<p>Pre-HS
National finalist in 'quiz bowl', 2006
National 'Perfect Score' in Mathematics Olympiad, 2006</p>
<p>About me
Australian
Caucasian/white</p>
<p>Thanks!
NJI</p>
Re sarcasm, I have trouble identifying it even in ‘real life’ conversations with people - the 'net just makes it harder!</p>