<p>Hi, I'm a senior who goes to an International School in China. I'd really really appreciate it if some of you can chance me. Please give me some honest feedbacks. I will definetly chance back. </p>
<p>Basic Info
International Student
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: My parents are from China. However, I was born in New Zealand (with New Zealand passport), with a Hong Kong citizenship too.
School: An average international school
Scores:
SAT I: First Try - 800 (M), 600 (CR), 730 (W), 8 (essay) - 2130
Second Try - 800 (M), 740 (CR), 660 (W), 8 (essay) - 2200
Super score - 800 (M), 740 (CR), 730 (W) - 2270</p>
<p>SAT II: Just took it in October - predicting 800 (Math 2) and 750 (physics).</p>
<p>Academics:
GPA: 3.86/ 4.0 (our school only calculates unweighted GPA)
School Ranking: None</p>
<p>AP Course Taken: AP Literature and AP Chinese (grade 11)
AP World Hist. and AP Environmental Science (Grade 12)</p>
<p>AP Score:
AP Chinese: 5
AP Lit: not sending</p>
<p>Extra-Curriculars</p>
<p>Sports:</p>
<p>School Varsity Volleyball (9,10)
- Most Improved Player in Varsity Volleyball (Grade 9)
- First Place Finish at the ACAMIS (Association of China and Mongolian International Schools) Varsity Volleyball Tournament (Grade 9, 10)
- First Place at the Southeast China Varsity Volleyball Tournament (Grades 9, 10) </p>
<p>School Varsity Soccer (9, 10, 11)
Won the Championship of Southeast China Varsity Soccer Tournament (Grade 9)
Second Place at the ACAMIS Varsity Soccer Tournament (Grade 9)
Most Improved Player Award for Varsity Soccer (Grades 9,10)
Won the Championship at the ACAMIS Varsity Soccer Tournament (Grades 10)
Won the Championship at the Southeast China Tournament (Grade 10)
Third Place at the ACAMIS Varsity Soccer Tournament (Grade 11) </p>
<p>Tennis (9,10,11)
Certified China National Level Two Athlete for Tennis (Grade 11)
Semi-finalist at the Shenzhen Gemdale Youth Tennis Cup (Grades 10)
Varsity school team</p>
<p>I've been commited to sports for the past years, winning several individual and team awards.</p>
<p>Others:
Web Design - Webmaster; created, designed, and maintained the official website for our school; skilled in Dreamweaver and Flash. 4 hours per week, 15 weeks per year. (Grade 9)</p>
<p>School Promenade - Member of the Organizing Committee; organized the school proms for two years. (Grade 10, 11)</p>
<p>Student Government - Apart of finding the Student Council at my school. (Grade 10,12) (I wasn't apart of it in grade 11 because the school didn't have a student council at grade 11)</p>
<p>Global Issues Conference - School Representative at the Global Issues Summit (4-days) in Thailand at the Bangkok International School; presented our views on contemporary global issues: free and fair trade, exchanged ideas with other representatives from 60 other schools on diverse topics. (Grade 10)</p>
<p>Leadership Club - Member; attended weekly meetings and represented school in the three-day Leadership Summit at Shanghai Community International School to learn and share experiences of running student governments. (there weren't elected officers at the time) (Grade 10)</p>
<p>Environmental Club - Member, planted trees in all four campuses and planted plants into classrooms; lowered carbon emissions by applying heat-resistant films on all campus windows to reduce the usage of air conditioners. 1 hour per week for the entire school year. (Grade 10)</p>
<p>Knowledge Bowl - Member of the school team, finished second place at the ACAMIS Knowledge Bowl Tournament. (Grade 11)</p>
<p>Scholar's Cup - One of Three Representatives of my school at the Scholar’s Cup Tournament hosted by the Concordia International School Shanghai. (Grade 11)</p>
<p>National Honor Society - Elected as a member of the first National Honor Society in our school; one of 9 inductees. (Grade 12)</p>
<p>Art
- First Prize for Painting at the 12th Annual China National Painting and Calligraphy Contest (Grade 9) </p>
<ul>
<li><p>In-school Creative Photoshop Design Award and the Highest Score by the Judging Panel for artwork: Dance of the Mermaid (Grade 9) </p></li>
<li><p>Level 4 Certification in Pencil Sketching at the China Academy of Art Fine Arts Level Examination (Grade 10)</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Go (type of complex chess game originated in China)
- 4th place finish at the Shenzhen Youth WeiQi Cup (Grade 9)
- Level 11(1-30 scale) Certification at the China National WeiQi Ranking Examination (Grade 9)</p>
<p>Community Service/Volunteer
Global Fundraising - Founder and Organizer; raised money for emergency relief for victims of the Haiti and Ketsana typhoons in the Philippines through organized events, successfully engaged the entire student and teacher body.</p>
<p>Community Teaching - Taught English to children of migrant workers at a factory for 3 hours every week during the school year and summer breaks. (Grade 9 - 11)</p>
<p>Green Shoots Academy - Founded Green Shoots Academy-an afterschool youth development program at a local Elementary School-a school for children of migrant workers in the city; designed an innovative curriculum combining English-learning, drawing, drama, and social activism and inspired over 60 students to participate in community activities, which helped them integrate into the local community. This project will potentially expand to other local schools and is meant to be continued after I go off to college. (Grade 12)</p>
<p>Certificate of Excellence in Community Service - awarded by school (Grade 11) </p>
<p>Work Experience
Teaching English to children in the neighborhood in the summer (Grade 9)</p>
<p>Equity Market Research Project - Studied the performance of equity markets in mainland China (A-shares) and Hong Kong (H-shares): researched the income statement and cash flow of mainland and Hong Kong listed companies’ in the food and beverage sector; researched the best analysts for the food and beverages industry in China and Hong Kong; developed an excel spreadsheet of the best analysts (from the third to the seventh annual selection) covering thirty-one sectors ranging from finance, manufacturing, energy, natural resources, biological sciences, food and beverages, and service. (grade 11 summer)</p>
<p>Awards and Honors: all mentioned above along with the activities.</p>
<p>Universities that I tend to apply to:
Stanford
NYU - scholarship?
Berkeley
UCLA
Princeton
Northwestern
Columbia
USC - scholarship?
Chicago
Brown
Cornell
Yale</p>
<p>In my senior year, I will be experimenting some activities that are new to me: I'm apart of school's new drama production, "how to succeed in highschool without really trying", as an actor; I will be joining the school's basketball team, and the tennis team that is new this year.</p>
<p>My common application essays were really good as it took me two months to finish them after countless edittings. Also, I hope my diverse background (Asian born in New Zealand, then moved to Hong Kong, Singapore, and China) could serve me as an advantage; i can also speak fluent english, chinese, and cantonese (another version of Chinese used in Hong Kong), now picking up Spanish 1 in my senior year.</p>
<p>Thank you, please chance me as I'm a bit confused about my chances at the schools I plan to apply to.</p>
<p>Best,
Andrew</p>