<p>actually, it's *Brown, or going to U of Southern Denmark. *</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 2200
[</em>] SAT IIs: 700 literature (but English isnt my first language), 740 Math I, 680 Spanish (I've only had a year of Spanish, but I didn't want to take Chinese in case my ethnicity discounts that score)
[<em>] GPA: IB full diploma predicted grade is 40 out of 45 (cambridge asks for 38 i believe, 40 is about top 10% of IB kids worldwide)
[</em>] Rank: 15/100 ish</p>
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<p>Location/Person:[ul]
[<em>] State or Country: Canada
[</em>] School Type: top private
[<em>] Ethnicity: parents are chinese, i was born in china and lived there for 10 years/half my life. grandmother had a drop of japanese blood though.
[</em>] Gender: F
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<p>Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Essays: good, as in "unique and interesting" according to a VERY MEAN past admissions officer
[</em>] Teacher Recs: didnt read. but one glowing, one decent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: didnt read.
[</em>] Hook (if this counts..): first-generation immigrant, lived in a dirty basement the first four years in canada :P except now I'm in private school and people assume it's always been like this; lived with domsetic abuse most of my life; major depressive disorder and eating disorder final two years of HS; basically completely retarded upbringing and life outsided of school
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<p>ECs:[ul]
[<em>] Music: started playing accordion at age 2, performed on national television (:p hahahaa) and received grade 8 diploma at age 7. dropped accordion because of immigration. picked up piano, played for 3 years, got a grade 8 diploma. won a scholarship for it and a bunch of awards. dropped it because depression took over. played drums and percussion in highschool/friends' band. can play guitar.
[</em>]Art: current love. took art for the first time in sophomore year (because of a scheduling conflict..), loved it, exhibited in senior artshow. won the art award in grade 11. in the summer i interned with a local artist, ran her t shirt business, made a pantload of money :D but most importantly figured out that I wanted to be in an art studio and would never give it up in college.
[<em>]Sports: badminton. trained on-court and off-court with Olympic-level coaches all summer long (killed me.. and gave me scary muscles i never had). plays recreationally weekly, senior team etc, did okay (IMO) at Open tournament.
[</em>]leadership: captain of senior badminton team, coached junior team.
[li]service: apart from volunteering oddjobs (mostly at art and music festivals around where I live), started a service/awareness organization "targetting adolescent first-generation immigrants who have experienced dramatic shifts in family dynamics as to combat long-term psychological trauma and stress" with some PhD research student at CAMH (center for addiction and mental health)[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>General Comments: wants to study philosophy and go to law school. visited a bunch of schools in the US and only ended up liking brown and RISD. seriously regrets not applying early. also, too scared to apply for financial aid so probably not applying for financial aid.. EDIT: also, a bunch of people from my school have already been accepted into dartmouth/yale/harvard/cornell.. none to brown yet.</p>
<p>any suggestions? comments? what do you think are my weak areas that I should try and hide?
THANK YOU IN ADVANCE =) I really appreciate it.</p>