<p>Last chance before i submit hahah.) I am an American citizen, born in the US and my family still maintains a house there, however, I have lived in Hong Kong for the last 16 years. (NOT IN THE ASIAN POOL )</p>
<p>Ethnicity: White
GPA: School does not use GPA
Class Rank: School does not rank (graduating class of 19)
School type: Extremely small private (though attached to a semi public French Lycee)</p>
<p>SAT
-Math: 650
-Critical Reading: 680
-Writing: 700
-Essay: 9
Will be retaking in November.</p>
<p>SAT II
French (written): 600 (mess up I am actually almost fluent :S will be retaking in January)
Math II: 640 (oh my god...)
Chemistry: 700</p>
<p>Bilingual IB Diploma Candidate: (predicted)
HL Maths (5)
HL Economics (7)
HL History (of East Asia and Oceania) (6)
SL Chemistry (6/7)
SL French A2 (6)
SL English A1 (6/7)
TOK</p>
<p>ECs:
-Division I Club Rugby 10 years
-School (JV/Varsity) Rugby 5 years
-Division I Club Tennis 4 years
-International Rugby Board Referee level 1
-Golf - Club awards (<10 handicap)
-Volunteer at an NGO specialising in local youth outreach ( 3 hours a week for 2 years, >100hrs)
-Modeling (some for Charity fashion shows)
-Member of School Life Council (Highest student government body, made up of students from both English and French sides of the school, teachers and french government officials.) 3 years
-MUN 2 years
-X-country (Varsity) 1 year</p>
<p>Achieved Academia:</p>
<p>International General Certificates of Secondary Education IGCSEs (CIE) (2009)
A*: Maths, Economics, French (2008) and English Language
A: History, Geography, Information Technology and Chemistry
B: English Literature </p>
<p>Yale Summer Session ('10)
ECON 252: B+
ENGL 212: B+</p>
<p>Essays:
CommonApp: interesting interior monologue about internationalism, economics, history, culture, all of which spurred from a verbal assault on a bus.
WhyPenn: Fairly standard, usual stuff backs up my EC's interest in various activities at Penn, academic opportunities etc.</p>
<p>References:
Uni Counsellor (also econ teacher): most likely amazing since I have consistently shown the most promise in economics and am friendly with him outside class.
Teacher references: honest, unbiased opinions, that is the school policy so these should be fairly good and when I visited Penn they said they appreciate honest references!</p>
<p>Additional reference:
Yale University Professor: taught me during the summer, graded my work, knows me fairly well and will again provide an honest unbiased account of my work with him in seminars with Yale students.</p>
<p>Hoping to Major in Economics and minor in History or another social science/humanity. I have been getting 2200's in my recent Blue book practice tests, assuming i achieve 2150+ on the real thing in November what do you think my chances would be?</p>
<p>One more question: if I have already sent Penn a score report (one of my four free ones) with all my scores apart form my pending November SAT, do I still need to "rush" the November scores? How can I do this if I have already sent them? Please advise!</p>
To be honest if your November scores are good, rush them!</p>