<p>CHANCES</p>
<p>International student, female, applying ED 1 to Vassar, need almost 93% aid</p>
<p>Stats
Freshman year GPA: 3.1
Sophomore year GPA: 3.0
and then HUGE leap
</p>
<p>British O-level results: 8 As in all 8 subjects
(4.0, if converted to GPA)
Junior year GPA: 3.9
British AS-level results: Eco = A
Bio = A
Chem = B (3.67 if converted to GPA)
Senior year GPA (first semester): 4.0</p>
<p>Got lots of Bs and Cs in first two years of high school (class of 50 students). Old school offered only till O levels. </p>
<p>Changed schools to do A levels. New school has 290 students in my batch. Very competitive. Have mostly As in new school, except for a B in chemistry. Have toughest course load in class 5 A level subjects</p>
<p>Class rank = 4/290 (top 1.4%)</p>
<p>ECAs:</p>
<p>MUSIC
* over 10 years of training in Indian classical music + Rabindrasangeet
* performed in school events
* sang on television twice
* won numerous awards outside school
* consecutively won the Certificate of Achievement in Music for 3 years in high school</p>
<p>DEBATE/ HOSTING:
* best speaker in semi finals in school debate in 9th grade
* runners up in finals in school debate 9th grade
* participated in many interschool debates
* parliamentarian in winning team in EFA finals 9th grade
* participated in 1st International Debate Workshop in Bangladesh 2004 11th grade
* parliamentarian in National Bangladesh Television English Debate championships in 2005
* nationally ranked as one of the top 5 debaters in Pre-worlds School Debate 2005
* general secretary of my schools debating society
* was the emcee at numerous events held on national days outside school
* hosted the Edexcel International Conference in 2005</p>
<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE:
* raised funds for flood victims in 9th grade
* organized a fund raiser in neighborhood to collect money for the treatment of a child suffering from polio
* treasurer of schools community service club 11th and 12th grades
* raised funds in school wide food sale for a childrens ward in a local hospital 12th grade </p>
<p>WRITING/OTHER CLUBS:
* contributed in school yearbooks 9th and 10th grades
* executive feature writer of Rising Stars, the most popular weekly supplement of a national English newspaper (average circulation figure of 50 000)
* essay got commended by the royal commonwealth society in 10th grade
* Associate Editor of school newsletter 11th grade
* Editor-in-Chief of school newsletter 12th grade
* member of Brine Pickles, a creative writers group
* recently was the youngest playwright to have a play staged at the British Council, Dhaka
* founded the first ever A level yearbook in my school (we have over 650 A level students in all the batches). Editor-in-chief of the yearbook.
* chief coordinator of the schools reading club, which I founded
* completed a course in photography from the South Asian Institute of Photography in 12th grade</p>
<p>ACADEMIC/ NON ACADEMIC HONOURS
* won the Certificate of Achievement in Economics in 9th grade
* won the Certificate of Achievement in English in 10th grade
* won the Daily Star Nation Builders of Tomorrow Award (given to candidates getting 6 As or above in their O levels) for 8 As.
* chosen by the school to be the Closing Assembly Speaker for the Class of 2004
* chosen by the class to give the speech at graduation</p>
<p>APPLICATION
* expecting good recommendations
* want to major in English and International Studies
* essay should be ok/good (suffering from writers block, so not sure)
* will mention that I want to be a writer
* SAT II: awaiting results
Lit should be above 700
Math I above 650
Math II no idea, pretty bad. Was sick on my SAT II day. Luckily Vassar requires 2 SAT IIs.
* SAT I: will give on Nov 5th: possible score: Critical Reading ~ 730
Writing ~ 690
Math ~ 650-ish? (pessimistically speaking)</p>
<p>(pls keep in mind that Vassar is not need blind for international students and i'll need a LOT of aid)</p>