<p>I'm a Canadian, so I'll be using Canadian universities as my safeties. That's why my list is so top heavy; I don't want to spend 4x as much money going to the states when I can go to a similar Canadian school.</p>
<p>Harvard (EA)
Amherst
Williams
Wesleyan
University of Pennsylvania
Brown</p>
<p>Citizenship: Canadian</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Korean</p>
<p>SAT I: 2350 (800 CR, 760 M, 790 W)</p>
<p>SAT II: 800 USH, ~750 Math 2, ~730 Lit</p>
<p>Grades: All As since grade 9, except for grade 9 French (B+); accumulative GPA is ~93%</p>
<p>Rank: ~3-5 out of 135</p>
<p>**Grade 12 courses:<a href="hardest%20load,%20no%20spare%20blocks">/b</a> AP Calculus AB, Physics 12, Lit 12, Chemistry 12, AP European History, Spanish 12, Religious Studies 12 (mandatory), Accelerated English 12</p>
<p>ECs</p>
<ul>
<li>Football (4 yrs., major time taker-upper, ~20 hrs/week)</li>
<li>Senior Concert Band; hornist, soloist (4 yrs.)</li>
<li>Senior Jazz Band; pianist (3 yrs.)</li>
<li>Inklings, school literary club (3 yrs.)</li>
<li>School newspaper (senior editor in gr. 12)</li>
<li>Piano: classical, pop, jazz (10 yrs.)</li>
<li>Volunteer for disabled seniors, at UBC Hospital (2 yrs.)</li>
</ul>
<p>Leadership</p>
<ul>
<li>Founder and chief organizer of my schools first film festival (Im still in the process of organizing it to take place at school years end
I came up with the idea while I was in grade 11)</li>
</ul>
<p>Awards/Honours</p>
<ul>
<li>Presidents Honour Society (gr. 9 11)</li>
<li>3rd highest GPA (gr. 11)</li>
<li>Top Academic Award (Varsity Football, gr. 11)</li>
<li>Man for Our Times Award (kind of like an NHS award) (gr. 11)</li>
<li>Highly Commended Award from Commonwealth Essay Society (gr. 11)</li>
<li>First place in Literary Arts Competition for Vancouver Teens (gr. 11)</li>
<li>Silver Award in Hypatia Math Contest (gr. 11)</li>
<li>Top 25% finish in Pascal (gr. 9) and Cayley (gr. 10) math contests (Univ of - Waterloo math contests)</li>
</ul>
<p>Misc.</p>
<ul>
<li>Football program is the best in the province (JV champs in 2003, Varsity runner-ups in 2004)</li>
<li>Jazz band won a Gold rating at MusicFest Canada (2004), which is Canada's biggest band festival</li>
<li>Prospective major: English/Literature</li>
</ul>
<p>PS Any other suggestions for schools will be much appreciated. Schools must be in the Northeast, and must be generally better than the top Canadian schools (Queen's, St. FX, McGill).</p>