<p>People like you impress me. How do you get such high marks? Idk maybe Ontario is different.</p>
<p>Ivies are always a reach, but I agree that you will get into at least 2-3 of these schools. Your research is impressive - I never have been given such an opportunity. </p>
<p>Here are my stats. Chance back, anyone? (Ok, I know this is ridiculous, but I find this kind of a fun game… I wonder how accurate the CCers will be once April rolls around…</p>
<p>Area: Montreal</p>
<p>GPA: High school - 95 (highest average in grade), CEGEP - Hardest program with hardest courses in province - 85</p>
<p>SAT I: 2210 - CR: 730, M: 800, W: 680 (eep!)</p>
<p>SAT II: Chemistry: 800, Biology E: 780, French: 760</p>
<p>Refs: I never saw them but other teachers at my school have read them over and have approached me to tell me that so-and-so’s reference letter was the best I’ve ever seen - all the teachers basically said I’m a genius and one of the best students they have ever taught, if not THE best (in their subject…). My mentor (a doctor I shadow weekly) wrote the most glowing thing ever about how well i relate with people and work in a team, and what a great person I am and how much everyone loves me at the hospital and what a good doctor I’d make and how I learn fast and possess a “native intelligence in the sciences” (that one I’ve seen). So yeah, don’t mean to brag, but they’re awesome!</p>
<p>ECs: I work for the city ambulance as a certified EMR/EMT and wrote the school play (2hr production). Those are the major, most recent ones. I also started the newspaper at my old high school and it still exists despite me not being there anymore. 6 years professional acting experience, student life committee (this exclusive policy-making comittee at my school consisting of the dean and a mix of representative students, staff, and faculty), I teach drama at the community center… and this is just the tip of the iceberg</p>
<p>Sports: Was once upon a time a competitive waterskiier… haven’t competed in 4 years though.</p>
<p>Awards: Governor General’s Academic Medal, McGill University Science Award… one for community service, another for getting along with my peers and having a positive attitude in high school… and a LOT of subject awards. None yet for CEGEP though.</p>
<p>Other: published in poetry magazines, play I wrote was featured in a national publication and a feature about it will air on CBC news.</p>
<p>Ok, i hope that didn’t sound too braggy, because I’m usually not like that…</p>
<p>Colleges: Harvard, Brown, Princeton, Columbia, Stanford, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, WUSTL, Oberlin, Northwestern, McGill, Johns Hopkins</p>
<p>NOTE: The Quebec high school curriculum is among the toughest in North America and we do NOT practice any grade inflation whatsoever. The highest overall average obtained in the entire province was a 98.1 and he went to an easy high school. Only about 2-3% of students have an over 90 average.</p>
<p>As for CEGEPs, comparing grades in different programs is like comparing apples and oranges… so in one program you could get an easy 90 while in another it is unheard of.</p>