<p>Hi there. I'm a Canadian student in Grade 11, and I was just looking for a few suggestions / pieces of advice, etc... I will most likely apply for a business program at the aforementioned schools. </p>
<p>My school is semestered, so the courses I'm taking right now I'll give my previous years marks as a guideline. Another difference is that I believe that American schools look at marks from all the years, whereas Canadian schools can only look at Grade 11 and 12. I've taken the hardest courseload possible for my years at the school. Unfortunately my school does not have AP, but we do have a special technology program - most widespread use of laptop computers in a non-private high school in the province and mentioned as top 40 high schools in Canada. That's just some background information I guess. </p>
<p>Grade 11 Sem. 1 Final Average: 92.5 %
Physics - 92%
Biology - 94%
Chemistry - 90%
Photography - 94% (Mandatory course)</p>
<p>Grade 10,9 (in that order) course marks as guidelines.
Mathematics (93, 91)
English (93, 92)
Science (92, 95)
History (93%)
Geography (91%)
Computer Science (93%)</p>
<p>Other Subject Awards (top mark in grade)
Grade 9 Science, Grade 9 English, Grade 9 Gym, Grade 9 Information Technologies (mandatory course @ school), Grade 9 Religion (mandatory)
Grade 10 Communications Technologies (mandatory course @ school), Grade 10 Computer Science, Grade 10 History</p>
<p>I would say my strongest subjects are English, History, and Science. I do well in math, but I do not consider myself to be exceptionally strong. I've always achieved around the low to mid nineties, and I do not think that this semester will be any exception.</p>
<p>Class Rank: Top overall average in grade consisting of roughly 300 students for both Grade 9 and 10 year</p>
<p>SAT: Will take in the summer (Perhaps someone could give me some minimum scores that I would need to achieve to get into the schools I mentioned with my marks)</p>
<p>Extra Curricular
Varsity Volleyball MVP (Grade 9, 10, 11) - Captain in Grade 10 + 11
Varsity Baseball MVP (Grade 10)
Member of basketball team
Member of technology steering committee at my school as selected by Principal (3 years), which has involved being a spokesperson for the laptop program to our feeder schools and demonstrating the program at numerous parent functions.
Co-Chair of student-run technology committee - turns decisions made by the lead technology steering committee into initiatives in the school (e.g. directing the creation and maintenance of the school website, organizing a Media Fair to display student multimedia creations, providing tutorial presenations of software programs to teachers)
Member of Social Justice council (Grade 10)
Worked at a summer camp that teaches computer animation, programming and software applications to children aged 7-12</p>
<p>Outside of school I play baseball, tennis and basketball for my town.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading this, and if anyone could give me some areas to improve or other advice it would be greatly appreciated. If you think I'm way off on my expectations to go to these schools then just tell me. I know alot depends on the SAT, so if anyone could give me some min. scores I'd need to get then that would help alot too. Thanks again.</p>