RD Chances at Haverford?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Haverford College
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<p>CHANCES</p>

<p>International student, female, applying RD, need a lot of fin aid</p>

<p>Stats
Freshman year GPA: 3.1
Sophomore year GPA: 3.0 … and then HUGE leap…</p>

<p>British O-level results: 8 A’s in all 8 subjects… (4.0, if converted to GPA)
Junior year GPA: 3.9
British AS-level results: Eco = A… Bio = A… Chem = B (3.67 if converted to GPA)
Senior year GPA (first semester): 4.0</p>

<p>Got lots of B’s and C’s in first two years of high school (class of 50 students). Old school offered only till O levels. </p>

<p>Changed schools to do A levels. New school has 290 students in my batch. Very competitive. Have mostly A’s in new school, except for a B in chemistry. Have toughest course load in class – 5 A level subjects</p>

<p>Class rank = 4/290 (top 1.4%)</p>

<p>SAT II
Lit - 670
Math I - 630
Math II - 550<br>
(retaking in dec)</p>

<p>ECAs:</p>

<p>MUSIC
* over 10 years of training in Indian classical music + Rabindrasangeet
* performed in school events
* sang on television twice
* won numerous awards outside school
* consecutively won the Certificate of Achievement in Music for 3 years in high school</p>

<p>DEBATE/ HOSTING:
* best speaker in semi finals in school debate in 9th grade
* runners up in finals in school debate – 9th grade
* participated in many interschool debates
* parliamentarian in winning team in EFA finals – 9th grade
* participated in 1st International Debate Workshop in Bangladesh 2004 – 11th grade
* parliamentarian in National Bangladesh Television English Debate championships in 2005
* nationally ranked as one of the top 5 debaters in Pre-worlds School Debate 2005
* general secretary of my school’s debating society
* was the emcee at numerous events held on national days outside school
* hosted the Edexcel International Conference in 2005</p>

<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE:
* raised funds for flood victims in 9th grade
* organized a fund raiser in neighborhood to collect money for the treatment of a child suffering from polio
* treasurer of school’s community service club – 11th and 12th grades
* raised funds in school wide food sale for a children’s ward in a local hospital – 12th grade </p>

<p>WRITING/OTHER CLUBS:
* contributed in school yearbooks – 9th and 10th grades
* essay got commended by the royal commonwealth society in 10th grade
* Associate Editor of school newsletter – 11th grade
* Editor-in-Chief of school newsletter – 12th grade
* member of Brine Pickles, a creative writer’s group
* recently was the youngest playwright to have a play staged at the British Council, Dhaka
* founded the first ever A level yearbook in my school (we have over 650 A level students in all the batches). Editor-in-chief of the yearbook.
* chief coordinator of the school’s reading club, which I founded
* completed a course in photography from the South Asian Institute of Photography in 12th grade</p>

<p>ACADEMIC/ NON ACADEMIC HONOURS
* won the Certificate of Achievement in Economics in 9th grade
* won the Certificate of Achievement in English in 10th grade
* won the Daily Star Nation Builders of Tomorrow Award (given to candidates getting 6 A’s or above in their O levels) for 8 A’s.
* chosen by the school to be the Closing Assembly Speaker for the Class of 2004
* chosen by the class to give the speech at graduation</p>

<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
* executive feature writer of Rising Stars, the most popular weekly supplement of a national English newspaper (average circulation figure of 50000)
*tutored a middle school student in 11th grade</p>

<p>APPLICATION
* expecting good recommendations
* want to major in English and International Studies
* essay should be ok/good (suffering from writer’s block, so not sure)
* will mention that I want to be a writer
* SAT I: will give on Nov 5th: possible score:
Critical Reading ~ 700…
Writing ~ 650…
Math ~ 650-ish? (pessimistically speaking)</p>

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<p>hey kee10</p>

<p>i am a freshman at haverford...and i used to live in bangladesh. i moved to the US in 9th grade! which school did you go to uptil 10th grade, and where do you go now? i used to go to greenherald.
anyway, i think that you have a good shot to say the least. your list of ECAs is very comprehensive and your grades are good too. haverford will look at the entire person so don't worry too much about the B's and C's. i am not very good with these evaluations, but you definitely have a good chance of getting in here...i would be happy to answer any other questions you have...also in terms of financial aid, haverford gives 2 or 3 int'l students each year a big scholarship.
what other schools are you looking at?</p>

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<p>hello nrahman, thanks for your reply. i did my olevels from sunbeams and am doing my alevels from mastermind. i know some people from green herald who got into bowdoin and harvard last year :) i've applied ED 1 to vassar - i'll apply RD to other colleges if that doesn't work out.</p>

<p>got my SAT 1 scores yesterday - higher than i expected:</p>

<p>CR = 780
Math = 670
Writing = 680 (essay = 12)</p>

<p>i might retake in december to raise math and writing scores. </p>

<p>i want to know if haverford is generous with international financial aid because i can't pay more than 7% and i'll need the college to cover the rest. also, where else had you applied and what were your stats, if you don't mind sharing :)</p>

<p>thanks again,
kee.</p>

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<p>hey again,
this is crazy- the bowdoin and harvard people are my friends from greenherald and i am still very much in touch with them (i don't want to mention any names on this site). in fact, the bowdoin one was asking me about my cousin (who had applied ED 1 to vassar last year from scholastica and had gotten in) because he said someone from MM was applying and wanted to know. that "someone" must have been you! lol...
firstly, i think you have a very good chance with vassar. fingers crossed for you :) second, as i said, every year haverford gives 2 or 3 international students full financial aid (like most other LACs). but if you are not one of the 2 or 3 people, i don't think you get as much.
sorry i am not of much help in terms of int'l fin aid because i applied from the US and am a permanent resident here, so the fin aid process was different for me.<br>
i applied ED to haverford and got in and therefore did not even send applications to other schools. but vassar, swarthmore, upenn, brown, etc were on my list. My SAT 1 scores were not too great - i got a 1340 (it was still out of 1600 then). SAT 2 scores were all in the 700's. and i took 9 AP courses during high school (i guess the equivalent of A Levels?) and got 4's and 5's on all of them (they are graded on a scale going up to 5). and i did Model United Nations (head delegate), played field hockey, and did a good amount of volunteering and peer tutoring. I think my essay and recommendations were quite good too.
I think your math and writing scores are fine. if you want to retake them, go ahead, but you probably don't want to retake and get lower scores, because that has happened to people i know. and great job with the essay - a 12 is amazing!
anyway, gtg now...</p>

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<p>thanks for your reply :) i've sent you a private message. 9 APs a are a lot! :D</p>