<p>Hi I am a 15 year old Indian male applying to PEA for the 2013-2014 school year as an 11th grader. I will be applying for financial aid. I currently study at the International School Bangalore in India although my parents live in the United States and I am originally from New Jersey (I am a US Citizen). Could you please tell me my chances of getting into Phillips Exeter Academy as getting in would be a dream come true.</p>
<p>My school follows the IGCSE (9th and 10th) and IB (11th and 12th) curricula.</p>
<p>I have 9 subjects and my grades are as follows: (A* = A+)</p>
<p>Additional Math - A* (hardest math course offered basically algeb. II + pre calc + calc AB)
Biology - A*
Physics - A*
English Literature - A*
Economics - A*
Mandarin Chinese - A* (I have been learning for 5 years)
Drama - A
Chemistry - A
English Language - A</p>
<p>My principal gives out Principal's Commendations for excellence. I have never missed any for academics and currently have 12 PCs after just one year in the school.</p>
<p>I am currently ranked in the top 5 in my class (I'm quite sure b/c as of December 2011 I was #2 and my grades have improved since then)</p>
<p>I have been a boy scout for 5 years and I am an Eagle Scout.</p>
<p>I have many hours of community service for organizations like Habitat for Humanity and Agasthya Foundation. In Agasthya, I went to a rural village in India by myself for about a week and taught health and hygiene to impoverished children).</p>
<p>I won the Presidential Gold Award for community service.</p>
<p>I won 2nd in USA in the National Science Olympiad held in Augusta, GA. My school overall came 3rd and I had the highest medal on the team that year. This was when I was still in the US.</p>
<p>I am a member of my school basketball team (no JV/Varsity in my school).</p>
<p>I am a member of my school's Model United Nations team and I was one of only four people selected from my grade last year. (I made the team this year too).</p>
<p>I am part of my school newspaper's staff (No 10th grader can be an editor)</p>
<p>I gained admission into the Davidson THINK Institute but because of financial reasons, could not go.</p>
<p>I interned in a big hosipital in Delhi in the neurosurgery wing and witnessed many operations and dealings with patients. I interned directly under the head of neurosurgery there and I have a letter of reccomendation from him.</p>
<p>I know my teachers quite well as well as my guidance counselor and I am sure my reccomendations will be good. (One question--I have last year's reccomendations (same teachers). Can I send them?)</p>
<p>I took the SAT in 7th grade and got an 18--something (I don't have the score report handy). I scored over 90th percentile in all 3 sections (99th in Math) last year on the PSAT and I will be taking it again in two months. In eighth grade I got a 2250 on my SSAT (that was a long time ago).</p>
<p>My school is very well known as an IB school and despite being in India, we send many students to Ivies each year.</p>
<p>Could you please tell me what my chances of admission into PEA are?</p>
<p>Thank you so much for your help,
rk1000</p>
