RD Chances?

<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>

<p>Did you try this post on the "what are my chances" board? I'm reluctant to post on chances threads because a magic eight ball or ouija board would have better results. It's really hard to tell who will be accepted and who won't unless you've had adcom experience.</p>

<p>Keep up with the debate though. Debate really helped my boys in many areas, not just in admissions.</p>