<p>White Male Brit (but not technically an international student)</p>
<p>Grades - as good as you can get in England with an abnormally heavy course load for my school:
9A*s GCSE; 5 predicted As A-Level (math, further math - studied independently -, chemistry, english literature, psychology)</p>
<p>SAT I - 2340 (770CR 800M 770W)
SAT II - 740 Math 1, Math 2, Lit</p>
<p>ECs - Solid but unspectacular:
-Founder, editor-in-chief school newspaper
-Chairman of student senate
-Deputy head boy
-Counselor for troubled younger kids in my school
-Some volunteer tutoring
-Young enterprise</p>
<p>Awards - Not much:
- I'm captain of my school's team that's made it to the semi-finals of a national psychology competition (but i'm not sure yale even registered that, we just got past the regionals a few days ago)</p>
<p>Summers - strong:
- Stanford SSP 06 (2 As)
- TASP 07</p>
<p>Recommendations - strong:
- 1 x 'best in career' from teacher with 20 years of experience
- 1 x 'one of best school has ever seen' from GC</p>
<p>Essays - I don't really know, unspectacular:
- 1 x about moving between US and UK and living without a true national identity. a tad facetious.
- 1 x about how a getting liberal arts education will help me find 'lux et veritas', with reference to TASP. a tad abstract. </p>
<p>Other factors
- haven't studied foreign languages or history in high school because school did not offer me those courses
- interview not overly spectacular </p>
<p>soo....</p>