<p>Chances for Stanford, Amherst, Smith, Cornell, Brown, Bates, Gettysburg, Mount Holyoke, Middlebury, Reed, Oberlin, Tufts </p>
<p>My situation:</p>
<p>First of all, I'm not a U.S. citizen. I'm doing my third year in Russia (It takes five years to get a bachelors degree here, so I'm in the middle of my studies). I'm majoring in international marketing but I hope to change my major to international relations and gender studies when I transfer. </p>
<p>My school doesn't use GPA. So far I have taken about 20 courses graded 1 through 5. I have 16 A's, 2 B's and 2 C's. My cumulative college average is about 4.65 (out of 5). </p>
<p>Between my first and my second year at my Russian school I won an invitation from the International Research&Exchanges Board of the US Department of State to study in the US as an exchange student for one year. I went to community college for 2 semesters (liberal arts with concentration in international relations and gender studies) and got a GPA of 3.77. (I had no choice over which school to go in the US and I was put into community college because at the time of applying to the program I was a freshman. According to the program's rules, all freshmen are placed into community colleges). In the US, I had an internship with the World Affairs Council. </p>
<p>I'm taking SAT this month, and I expect to score about 650 in Maths, 650-700 in Writing and 650 in Reading. I know it's kind of a low score but I hope they will take into account that I have never attended American high school. I also hope to score between 105 and 115 at TOEFL ibt. (The maximum is 120. I took TOEFL pbt in 2008 before studying in the US and got 627).</p>
<p>Spring 2011 semester I'm planning to study as an exchange student in Indonesia through the World Class University program, major Economics of Development. </p>
<p>My EC's:</p>
<p>1) I have been in the Model United Nations debate club for 3 years. One year I served as Head of Community Service Committee of the debate club. I also served as a chairperson of the Asian Pacific Model United Nations Conference organized at my school. In my first year, I went to Japan for an International Model United Nations Conference. </p>
<p>2) I served as an international relations officer of the local Rotaract club for one year (community service events). </p>
<p>3) I won 3 grants from International Research&Exchanges Board of the U.S. Department of State to organize community service events, and 1 grant from Winrock International (a program by USAIDS). </p>
<p>4) In 2010, I won a chance to represent my country at the Girls20 summit, modeled after G20 and organized by tens of NGOs in Canada. I also won a chance to act as a spokesperson for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (Geneva) at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Mexico. </p>
<p>5) At different times, I volunteered online for the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Moscow and Community Breakthrough Support Mission in Kenya. Currently I'm online community volunteer for World Pulse, international women's magazine. </p>
<p>Thanks everyone!</p>