<p>Chance me please?</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2290 (770CR, 800M, 720W)
SAT II: 780 Lit, 800 French, will take Math II and Chem in Oct.</p>
<p>Now for the complicated part. I go to a French/international school (dual citizenship), so we do a bilingual curriculum which also follows the instructions from the French Ministry of Education and prepares for the French baccalaureate.
Grades are on a scale of 0 - 20, but rarely go to the extremes (they tend to be within like 4 and 16, with a 4 being absolutely horrible, a 10 the passing grade, and a 16 really good). 15 = A+, more or less
My average for the past 3 years has been around 17.5-18.5, and I've never had an average under 15 in any subject</p>
<p>We take mostly French courses, which means no APs or Honors. The school does offer AP French and AP Spanish, but not the actual courses (for native speakers, which means everyone takes French and a few take Spanish, I was actually the first non-native to take it); I got a 5 on both tests.</p>
<p>In 9-10th grades, we have very little choices as to what subjects we take, so we all take French literature, English literature (eng.), History/Geography, Social Studies (eng.), math, physics/chemistry, biology/geology, economics in 10th, either Spanish or German (I take Spanish), plus Latin as an option, which I take. Every subject is taught in French, except for the languages, and the two subjects in English.
In 11-12th grade, we choose whether we want to concentrate in economics (ES), or math and science (S). I chose S, which means no more economics, but more math, physics, chem, bio, as well as French (only in 11th), Spanish, history, English and Latin, and philosophy in 12th.</p>
<p>At the end of 11th grade we pass the baccalaureate exams in French (oral and written), as well as TPE, which is a yearlong research project that culminates in some sort of production (website, video, book, etc.). I made a scientific magazine in which I talked about bioethics (prenatal diagnosis). We then have to present it to a jury, talk about our thesis and our research, etc, for ½ h. I got a 14 on the written (disappointed...), a 19 on the oral (! so happy :) ), an 18 on TPE (I dont know whether colleges can see this). All the other exams we pass at the end of 12th grade.</p>
<p>ECs:
Editor-in-chief of my schools literary magazine since 11th (in 9th and 10th was editor-in-chief of the yearbook, but I decided I preferred this job instead)
3rd Dan black belt in Tae kwon do, as well as an instructor, been to South Korea for international competitions (two bronze medals), and one silver at nationals (but this was a little while ago, I havent been as dedicated this past year)
Volunteer at the local hospital on Sundays
Work as a volunteer for an organization that provides pro-bono surgeries for kids born with cleft lip or microtia (I was actually born w/o a right year, so this means something to me), this past summer did the Tour du Mont Blanc as a fundraiser
Math club
Won a scholarship to study Spanish in Barcelona for a month my 9th grade year
Spent a month studying Spanish in Paraguay (went to school & worked on the family farm)
10 days in Bolivia (exchange trip) organized by my school, we had to apply and everything
2 internships, one short one at Harvard School of Public Health, and another, month-long at Cornell Medical School
Helped build 2 houses in Nicaragua in October of 10th grade (same process as for the Bolivia trip)
Sat the Concours general de francais, French national competition comprised of a six-hour essay on one quotation, usually about French literature. Only those in the top 8% of their graduating class are eligible to be nominated. First student to be nominated from my school. Didnt win anything though :(</p>
<p>Hooks: None, sort of a legacy at Columbia (grandfather, uncle went to graduate school there), in terms of hardship, my ear + my dad was run over by a car last year, and it was really serious, luckily hes almost entirely recovered now => I dont know whether colleges care about this</p>
<p>Will be applying for financial aid</p>
<p>prospective major: comparative literature, I realize that sometimes it's under a different name (harvard, yale) and that some schools on my list don't even offer it (hem hem Hopkins), but it's not at all definite + hopkins doesn't make it too hard to design your own major, so it's ok</p>
<p>College list:
Harvard (SCEA)
UVA (EA) (an exception to the SC part of SCEA is any public school, even though I live in NY, which is part of the reason I'm applying early to Harvard and not Yale, which doesn't have this exception)
Yale
Brown (PLME)
Chicago
Stanford
Swarthmore
Williams</p>
<p>Columbia
Johns Hopkins
Middlebury
Wesleyan</p>
<p>Cornell
McGill
Michigan
Northwestern (HPME)
Tufts </p>
<p>(Im only applying to the colleges in 2nd group if I dont get in to Harvard, and the colleges in the 3rd group if I dont get in to Harvard nor UVA)</p>
<p>Sorry it turned out to be so long :P</p>
