<p>Hey guys, chance me for ED please. I just checked my SAT scores and they are so much lower than what I expected, so I am thinking whether or not I should take it again in December (cant do november for personal reasons) and just do RD.</p>
<p>School: Public
Rank: 1/183
GPA: 97.9
Courses: IB Diploma (Bio, Chem, Eng Higher Level / Man, Psych, Math Standard Level)
EC:
Founder and president of Schools for School Fundraising Club (for the civil war in uganda)
Founder and president of Multicultural Club
Executive Leader and Senior Counselor of International Students Society
Provincial (im in canada) Healthy Living Strategy Committee / Provincial Youth Representative
Co-founder and executive leader of LEO Club (youth version of the Lions International)
Shad Valley Program (a month long, engineering/entrepreneurship summer program)
BC Summer Games 2010 Promotions Team Member
District Recreation and Reading Program for dyslexic kids
A month-long internship at Local Hospital
Section Leader of Chamber and Concert Choirs for the past 4yrs (heritage festival gold, sing along messiah contest at orpheum winner)
Tae Kwon Do for 11 years, 3rd black belt, annual sparring contest 2nd place, (in korea few years back, team captain at the National Youth Competition) must have ~500hrs of service for assisting the coaches and teaching little kids for the past years</p>
<p>Awards: Waterloo Research In Motion Entrepreneurship Cup Top 3
Royal Commonwealth Essay Contest Highly Commended
Top Student in IB Psychology and IB Math
Shad Valley Model UN Most Outstanding Speaker
District Certificate of Achievement and Recipient of the District Foundation Scholarship
Lions International Scholarship Recipient</p>
<p>SAT 1: 1950
SAT 2: 760 Chem, 780 Math</p>
<p>Essay: Unique, put quite a lot of effort; Focused on the fact that I spent lots of time with children/youth (EC list is heavily based on youth involvement as you can see) and how helping out at the dyslexic kids program spurred my maturation and creativity -> but this is only a small part of the essay. its mainly an extended metaphor. well-written.
Why Columbia paragraph: not too typical
EC paragraph: talked about how i organized a school-wide film presentation to raise awareness of the child soldiers in uganda and how i contacted one of the ugandan schools and actually brought a student to canada. initiated a face-to-face conference that involved 800 students in total (90% of school population)
also mentioned most students who attended the presentation continued to be interested -> formed the fundraising club which now involves 75studnets and i hold the presidency. (biggst club in school)</p>
<p>Ref: both good
Counselor: excellent</p>
<p>Eth: Korean / Came to Canada 6yrs ago (canadian citizen, so im not considered as an international student)
No legacy</p>
<p>i am worried about my SAT score. (very, very low for Columbia, i know)
but hoping that my ECs and awards and GPA would cover it up?
i mean they cant look at that one exam and decide everything...right? : (</p>
<p>please chance me and any comment is welcome</p>