Do I have a possibility of getting into top boarding schools I applied to?

Prep School Admissions Prep School Chances
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I am currently in 8th grade in a middle school in Korea. (International Applicant)
I am also extremely sorry that this whole thing is REALLY REALLY SUPER DUPER loooooong.

Grades (Scores)

  1. SSAT Reading 91%
    Verbal 90%
    Quantitative 99% Total- 96%
  1. Toefl (Internet based ETS test- Reading 26 Listening 30 Speaking 29 Writing 29 - Total 114 (That reading score HURTS me!!)
  2. School Grades (Don't get confused- In a Korean middle school, there are 10 subjects per year that a student has to mandatorily take so as to graduate. Also, there are no + or - grade scores. The A cutoff for Music, P.E, Arts is 80. ^^)

7th grade 8th grade 1st term 8th grade 2nd term
Korean Language- 95%(A) Korean Language- 91%(A) Korean Language- 96%(A)

English Language- 96%(A) English Language- 100%(A) English Language-97%(A)
Mathematics- 100%(A) Mathematics- 100%(A) Mathematics-97%(A)
Social Studies- 100%(A) Korean History- 95%(A) World History-98%(A)
Science- 93%(A) Science- 96%(A) Science- 100%(A)
Moral Ethics- 88%(B)- that hurts me too! Moral Ethics- 94%(A) Moral Ethics-94%(A)
Technology&Home management 86%(B)- my gosh Chinese Characters- 98%(A) Chinese Characters- 98%(A)
Music-91(A) Music- 93%(A)
P.E-95 (A) P.E-88%(A)
Visual&Martial arts- 84(A) Visual&Martial Arts-92%(A)

Achievements&Awards
2017 AMC 10A Certificate of Distinction score-132/150
2017 AMC 10B Certificate of Distinction score- 135.5/150 (Top 1%)
Aime Qualifier- Score- 8/15
Didn’t make it to the USAJMO, but only 13.5 points behind. (The cutoff was 229- I was 215.5)- I think I will qualify this year because I think I only got one question wrong for this year’s AMC 10A.

CTY (Center for Talented Youth)

  1. Extraordinary Achievement Award for Forensic Science (Based on final exam on the last day on our class, many experiments- Invited to receive my award at Johns Hopkins University.)
  2. Award for High honors in Mathematical, Verbal, and Spatial ability (But I guess this kind of award is given to almost everyone who participated. ^^)

KEDC(Korean English Debate Championship)
Semi-Finalist with 2 other teammates.
Ranked 5th among ESL speakers

Gangnam Student Research presentation competition- Gold medal in school (in top 3 teams among 293 participants), 2nd place among 10 qualified schools in the Gangnam district.

School Korean Debating Tournament- Semi finalist (3rd out of 61 teams)

Silver Medalist- Korean Physics Olympiad (KPHO)
Gold Medalist- Korean Mathematical Olympiad(KMO) 1st round (Top 30 out of 5691 participants)
As a result, selected to a KAIST summer olympiad training camp (Similar to MOSP in the U.S)
Silver Medalist- KMO 2nd round (Top 75 out of the 601 qualifiers from the 1st round)

Extracurricular&Campus Activities

  1. Best Buddies Program- Participating in it for 2 years
    -Paired up with a buddy with autism and/or other disabilities and participated in various exercises and bonding activities with them
    • Participated in a widely publicized marching event for best buddies at the Seoul 1988 Olympic Park
  1. Coding club using Arduino- Founder, President -Learned C-language and got used to it -Used Arduino to apply that knowledge into reality -Eventually, created objects such as a self detecting trashcan with our clubmates and participated in the Yonsei University Computer programming forum
  2. Orchestra 1st Violin 2nd Chair in our middle school orchestra Was in 1st violin when I went to a school in Canada
  3. Completed a summer robotics program held in UT(University of Toronto)
  4. Drama&Theater Acted in the play Hensel&Gretel, Macbeth
  5. Sports a. Soccer(7 years) Varsity Soccer team, Team captain Led the Elementary School soccer team in Korea to victory (Gold Medal) in the Gangnam District League championship in 2014 • Led the Elementary School soccer team in Canada to the quarterfinals in the Toronto district league

b. Basketball(5 years)
c. Hockey(1 year)

  • Currently Learning Surfing at a beach in the Kangwon province every summer vacation

Community Service

  1. North Korean Human Rights Advocacy, Translator
    (Worked with the Korea Herald for 3 months to translate letters written by North Korean refugees from Korean to English for international distribution & readers around the world)

2. ‘Living together’ Organization
• Volunteered at a nursing home for the elderly in Bukhan Mountain
• Interacted with the elderly and the disabled through various organized activities such watching Ted talks, reading books together, and holding discussions about various topics ranging from North Korean nuclear weapons to President D. Trump

Other interests, Hooks
Composing electronic music on my own launch pad, watching cool youtube videos about biotechnology( Biotechnology is really what I would want to study deeply at college.)
Was invited to a Bar Mitzvah during the year I spent in Toronto

I would be grateful if you guys could just skim through this jumble of info. Thanks!!^^

P.S. I just want to know if I have a ‘possibility’. No chancing! I know it’s cheesy to say that ‘What are my chances of…?’
Thank you again!



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I think you have a great chance of getting into US boarding schools, of course depending on which ones you applied to and whether you need any financial aid. Good luck!

Just a note on your math accomplishments. Those are excellent scores for a 7th grader on the AMC10 and AIME. The only boarding schools in the US where you are going to find at least a few other students at your level are going to be Exeter and Andover. Of course, there are other boarding schools with talented competitors, but none will have more than one or two kids per grade who will realistically ever compete at the USAMO level, and most will have none.

Don’t waste your time with the AMC10 anymore. It is easier to qualify USAMO off the 12, and unless you believe you have a realistic chance of being a USAJMO winner, you are imo better off going only 12 and USAMO from here on out.

Best of luck, and if you already have a 144 or 145.5 on the 10A this year you should definitely tell that to your schools ASAP.

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Of course you have a good chance.

To which US boarding schools did you apply ?

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As an international applicant, the biggest question will be do you need financial aid?

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i won’t need fa

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and also im a dual citizen(kor/us)

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yo mate I did cty JHU as well and am applying to like 8 schools and I think you have a really good chance because of the varsity soccer

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Super strong. I think you will have your choice :slight_smile: Who knows if you don’t get in, I don’t know who will.

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It seems like you have a good chance

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which schools did you apply to ??

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You have an amazing EVERYTHING, and you’re full pay? I’ll be very shocked if you don’t get admitted. The only reason I could think of for any school to reject you is if you messed up your essays.

Tell us where you get in on M10! (if you want to)

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Oh, also what schools are you applying to?