Hi everyone I realized that there isn’t a post for 2021 Fall transfer, so this is a chance me post as well as a post for all 2021 Fall W&M
transfer applicants who want to share their information .
By the way I am international student.
Am I in the same pool with in state and oos students? If so I don’t have much chances cuz you guys are all so good at academic…
Nationality: Chinese Canadian/ Asian
Languages: Chinese, English, Japanese N2 and a little bit of French
TOEFL: 109
High School Status:
Canadian private high school in Quebec
GPA 3.75/ 4.0 (83)
no SAT
Activities:
School Prefect (like student union, choose 17 student among 250)
Varsity soccer team 1 year
Varsity rugby team 1 year
Junior basketball team 2 year
Debate Team
Prize:
Waterloo math competition top 10%
Academic honor prize in Grade 11 (80+)
then I transfer to a Quebec CEGEP college:
Majoring social science with math
GPA: 88/100, top 10%
Activity:
Debate team
Pom Team (Cheerleading)
Feminism Club
Volunteer for Girl’s Guide
Prize:
Miss Chinese Montreal Pageant Champion 2018
Then I applied to a university in Tokyo, Sophia University Liberal Arts program (one of the top private Japanese university and the program is taught in English)
Major: Political Science and History
GPA 3.79 (got 3 Bs: one from Christian humanity class, one from PE class and one from Japanese 3 class, there are only ABCDF grading system, A is 4.0 and B is 3.0)
Two semester dean’s list (3.5+)
Activity:
none due to the COVID
Maybe international student league at Sophia counted as one?
Prize:
Hult Prize at Sophia Second Place
Monbukagakusho Honors Scholarship from Japanese government
The Beijing Center internship program scholarship
Profession:
Summer job at a Bubble tea store in downtown Ottawa
Recommendation Letters:
3 letters from Sophia University professors (literature, globalization, writing class instructor)
1 letter from my high school principal
1 letter from my bubble tea manager