International Chances

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey everyone. I would really appreciate it if you would take the time to chance me, and give a little feedback on how i could improve my chances for the listed schools.</p>

<p>Background : Live in Hong Kong, school follows the British A Level system. School has strong history of sending students to NYU, Cambridge, Brown, Oxford etc.</p>

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<li>graduating class of 2014</li>
<li>no class ranks/percentiles</li>
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<p>IGCSEs :
English Language - A
English Literature - A*
Mandarin second language - A*
German second language - A*
Math - A
ICT - A
Physics - A
Biology - A
Geography - A*</p>

<p>AS courses (exams in May) :
Geography
History
Math
German + Sprachdiplom I</p>

<p>SAT (planning to take second time in September/October : 2050 (1st time)</p>

<p>ECs / Charity work / awards :
Yearbook - head of writing department
School Newspaper - feature writer
HKAYP/Duke of Edinburgh Bronze Award
SCMP (leading English newspaper in Hong Kong) Young writer
School Horse Riding "A" Team, 3-4 years
Shark Project (school based charity) committee member
School Squash Team
Tutoring Ethnic Minorities (community service) once a week, 2 years
Student leader on a Grade 7 community service trip to rural China
Charity community building trip to rural Thailand (built a school for orphans of drug war)
Have hiked up Mount Kota Kinabalu (20th highest in world I think)</p>

<p>Personal :
- run a successful fashion blog, 30k readers + growing
- half German, half Malaysian-Chinese
- will be first person in extended family to have a shot at reputable university
- parents have a medium-lowish annual income (both lost jobs in recession)
- did a summer abroad to learn German language in Germany (we speak English at home)
- will be doing a variety of work experience this summer</p>

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<li>my report card hasn't been too great this year and last due to stress from changing economical situation and its effects, mostly Bs and one or two Cs</li>
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<p>Interested in the following Universities:
Cornell
NYU
Berkely
UPenn
Duke
Northwestern
Boston University
Boston College
Penn State
Georgetown Uni
Northeastern Uni
UCLA</p>

<p>Dream/High reach, worth a shot I guess :
Columbia (dream)
Stanford (would be amazing, but I know its a far reach for almost everyone)</p>

<p>UK Unis:
Kings College (dream)</p>

<p>Thanks so much for reading all this. Im becoming rather frantic trying to figure out ways to improve my chances. </p>

<p>Im planning on doing Liberal Arts, and Im not sure if I should take any subject tests. Can anyone please give some advice on this too? Thanks so much everyone!</p>

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<p>Cornell: Reach
NYU: High match
Berkeley: High match (can you pay full-freight?)
UPenn: Reach
Duke: Reach
NWU: Reach
BC: Match (if male)/High match (if female; the reason is because far more women apply at Boston College than men)
BU: Match
Penn State: Safety
Georgetown: Reach
UCLA: Match
NEU: Match
Stanford: Reach
Columbia: Reach
King’s College: Match (I think King’s College looks at A-levels first and SAT second, if at all)</p>

<p>What’s your problem with CUHK?</p>

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<p>Thanks so much for your feedback.</p>

<p>As for CUHK, I couldnt stand to stay in Hong Kong. The tiny community here is really a bad match for me personally. Also, generally they tend to accept 5-10 med students from my school. I have no interest in medicine, and so Im hoping to do Liberal Arts, as Im not yet sure of what I want to major in.</p>

<p>Thanks again!</p>

<p>-im Female by the way</p>

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<p>Still looking for more feedback :)</p>

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<p>Wow, its pretty difficult to get people to chance, so many boards to compete with</p>

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<p>I think you are brilliant. You have chances to get into university that you want. I think you should increase SAT, and do some volonteerings.</p>

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<p>Thank you so much!
Im planning to hit the books this summer for the SAT.
My volunteering is going to add up to some 200+ hours, over 2 volunteering efforts (is that the right word?). Its not particularily spread out, but ive put a lot of time and heart into helping these kids, so I hope that’ll be worth something for the Unis.</p>

<p>Thanks again!</p>

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<p>It’s just my advice: create a club, which will help orphans, disabled people. It will increase you chances( volonteering and leadership) also I strongly recommend you “princeton review” to prepare for SAT</p>

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<p>thanks for the tips! I already have the book, ill be starting work rigth after AS exams next month</p>

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<p>I’d love some more feedback</p>

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<p>Please, more feedback!</p>

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<p>Pm me your email address and I’ll reply that way. I don’t have enough posts to be allowed to pm and I Cba to post more</p>