<p>I've written a ton of posts on the REA 2016 thread, those of you lingering around this forum might have talked to me:) anyway here're my stats, i wanted to get evaluations from fellow REA'ers!</p>
<p>Besides Stanford (my top choice and a high reach) I'm applying to Ann Arbor (legacy), Tufts, Vassar, NYU, Amherst and Williams, and if my December scores hit the 2300 mark (my aim.. haha) Brown and UPenn. I was kinda having hopes for getting recruited for tennis but I guess i didn't perform enough or they don't track international schools that much.. Considering applying to UBC and McGill for Canada, too, for cheaper tuition;)</p>
<p>Here goes!</p>
<p>Female
International, South Korean</p>
<p>Residence: Germany
School: Independent english speaking international school administering International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (no AP classes offered)
transferred to this school in the middle of the 2nd semester of sophomore year. before that, public korean school. before that, public school in Michigan.</p>
<p>GPA:7.00 in International Baccalaureate scale
Rank:8/126 (Valedictorian-6th all applying to Oxbridge)
SAT: (superscore 2190)
2011 Mar RC: 720 M: 720 W: 650
2011 Oct RC: 690 M: 670 W: 750
2011 Dec (registered)
SATII: 2011 Nov Literature, Physics (ended up taking 3, Math I extra. probably at least a 750 on Lit, I hadn't prepared but I felt it was pretty easy and there were no blunders, and Math I was a piece of cake but screwed up on Physics. i was arrogant from having learned almost everything in IB and hadn't reviewed, and wasn't used to the format. in retrospect not even trying out a full practice test before going in was really, really stupid.. anyway. didn't cancel the tests but canceled recipients order)
TOEFL: 118/120 (iBT)</p>
<p>Classes:
IB English A1 Higher Level
IB Physics Higher Level
IB History (Europe Option) Higher Level
IB Visual Art Standard Level
IB Math Standard Level
IB German Ab Initio
Theory of Knowledge
*maximum higher level courses allowed by the IBO is 4, normally 3 recommended due to time constraints</p>
<p>ECs:
(ECs at current international school in germany, 2nd semester sophomore year - now)
-Editor-in-Chief of school paper
-Correspondent for independently funded student magazine (film columnist)
-Delegate to The Hague International Model United Nations (THIMUN) 2011
-Advisory Panel member IMO to THIMUN 2012
-Ambassador to Royal Russell Model United Nations 2011
-Student Library Advisory
-Varsity Tennis
-Student/player at local tennis&badminton club
(ECs at prior public school in south korea, freshman - 1st semester sophomore)
-Lee Min Jong Art Studio
-Chungdahm Institute Masters Program (introductory courses)
(EC's that I didn't include:
-Taekwondo black belt and competition titles, since they were all from around 5-6th grade and my counselor said admissions wouldn't approve of stuff from middle school being included
-Stanford EPGY Summer Program. ditto above, this was during summer of 6th grade)</p>
<p>Essays:
CommonApp Writing: fiction style prose of a significant event, clear & straightforward, took great care not to brag/explain too much/dictate/have an epiphany/judge, incessantly revised, critiqued, approved of by counselor and family and even my little sister who usually likes to criticize every word i say, i too am very satisfied with the final draft
CommonApp EC writing: clean piece about joining the school paper my first week at school and finally landing the editor-in-chief position, befriending the supervising teacher, and staying for whole saturdays eating pizza and finishing final edits before publishing 16-page issues
Stanford (applying REA) supplement: amount of care and time put into all answers and essays almost equal to the one CommonApp essay. One thing I was not pleased about, the fact that the arts supplement was due two weeks before the REA deadline. How the **** was I supposed to know when CommonApp hadn't indicated a separate deadline? Did a private fit of rage when i first found out, two days after the deadline with my arts material more or less finished. Will send these in if I get deferred..</p>
<p>Letters of Rec:
Counselor: She says she focused on my improvement of grades (just about the only thing keeping my cumulative GPA from ranking round 1st or 2nd is the ****ty grades i got at my korean public school, where i never paid attention in class and just read books in the back of the classroom cause all the classes were so boring you wouldn't believe. anyway it's all my fault and my loss, counselor did point out "extraordinary" leap after moving to germany) also included a page-length excerpt from a letter my MUN advisor wrote
1) Theory of Knowledge and German teacher in junior year: he said i should read his letter sometime in the future since life's gonna be tough and no one's gonna ever say things as nice and praising as what he'd written in his letter, and i'm going to need the encouragement cause i'm not getting any more after school's out. (he's brilliant but very sarcastic)
2) English A1 HL teacher junior year and senior (except for language2 IB courses are two-years): absolutely brilliant teacher, smartest person I've met so far, has that British humour that's really dry and forgiving, though has very, VERY high standards. so this letter worries me a bit, but i did perform in her class and did extra work, she knows i read more than average and i always answered questions like 'what did James Joyce write that was experimental in line with the works of Virginia Woolf.' also hoping a bit of harshness will be healthy for the application as a whole(?)</p>
<p>(copied from an old thread i posted in the stats profiles forum)</p>