<p>I'd like to know what my chances are for Claremont McKenna, Williams, and Hamilton. It would be great if you could illustrate my chances with percentages for each school, and highlight my strongest area of the application. I'm an international student, and I would like to major in English Literature: Creative Writing.</p>
<p>Ethnicity: African</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT: 2170 (750M, 660CR, 760W, 10 Essay)
I've taken it again, waiting for my new scores.</p>
<p>Sat 2:
Literature: 800
Biology: 750</p>
<p>IB diploma programme: 36/42</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Ec's:</p>
<p>Head of journalism team- Published first school newspaper and launched first student led school blog (11)</p>
<p>Senior editor and co-founder of an editing firm for high school students (basically we already edit people's essays a lot and we decided to make money off it lol) (12)</p>
<p>Creative director and writer for a popular collaborative youth literary blog (first of it's kind in my country) (10, 11, 12)</p>
<p>Youngest hired writer at a widely acclaimed youth magazine in my country. (11, 12)</p>
<p>Yearbook executive (a founding member) (11)</p>
<p>Director of school play and I acted a minor role (11)</p>
<p>Vice president of Spoken Word poetry club (a founding member) (11,12)</p>
<p>Executive of junior rotaract club (interact) we raised money for charitable courses. (10, 11)</p>
<p>Founder and CEO of NGO charity. The charity provides education to unskilled single mothers in the country sleeping on the streets. So they can learn skills in a profitable profession, after they complete lessons we provide them with money to set off on a new career path. We also do work towards improving adult literacy in my country, and holding regular soup kitchens.</p>
<p>Columnist for school magazine (9, 10, 11, 12**hopefully if I can stop being lazy and write something)</p>
<p>I have been a finalist in 2 national poetry slam championships. One of these competitions was for professional poets mainly.</p>
<p>I have collaborated on a spoken word album with an internationally acclaimed poet, and featured on a spoken word album with a national poetry slam 1st place winner.</p>
<p>I am the chief editor for my church's newspaper, for the teenagers' section of my church.</p>
<p>I have been a head organizer for a bi-annual open mic event at my school, and I have also performed.</p>
<p>I spent part of summer 2013 and Christmas 2013 interning at an advertising agency in my country, writing ads for them mostly.
I spent summer 2014 writing for a small scale international digital magazine based in New York.</p>
<p>Recommendations are most likely very good.
Believe it or not, I've been busy editing other people's college essays I haven't even got started on my own. I really don't know what to write about though. Hopefully I'll have it done by the end of next week.</p>