ED - please chance me (:

<p>i’m getting a little worried as the ED deadline starts looms closer, so please chance me. thank you!</p>

<ul>
<li>korean/us citizen</li>
<li>jewish (may put “agnostic” 'cause i haven’t been practicing the religion for a bit)</li>
<li>most competitive international school in south korea/moved from a mid-ranking public high school in massachusetts</li>
</ul>

<p>gpa: 91.72% (unweighted, international school goes by percentage without weight)
rank: n/a
SAT I: 1990 (710, math; 680, writing; 600, reading) - retaking in oct.
SAT II: 690 lit; 650 us history; 680 world history
AP exams: 4, language arts/composition; 4, european history
courses: intense (6 ap courses total, all honors/advanced courses in ma)
senior courses: ap world history, ap english literature, ap statistics, ap psychology, world literature, three electives, independent study: violin instruction</p>

<p>ECs:

  • in the running for national merit
  • assistant editor-in-chief for litmag (2 years)
  • founder and co-president of book club
  • assistant violin teacher for the elementary school’s strings program (3 years)
  • all-state, regional orchestras
  • 1st place, strings player, international schools in seoul solo competition
  • published +2 times in school litmag, waiting to send work to professional litmags in the usa
  • +200 hours of community service (teaching violin to lower-class kids in metropolitan boston, teaching english to middle-class korean kids)
  • jv and varsity swimmer, varsity swim team manager (4 years)</p>

<p>other schools other than barnard:
williams (reach)
nyu - cas
carnegie mellon
smith (1st choice after barnard)
usc
bowdoin</p>