Resume for SCEA

Colleges & Universities A-Z Harvard University
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<p>ACADEMIC HONORS</p>

<li> Placed always nearly at the top details of which is as follows:<br>
Class IX: 1st
Class X: 2nd
ICSE: 2nd
Class XI: 2nd<br></li>
<li> Attended ‘Computer Awareness’ course conducted by St. James’ School in September, 1997, & declared ‘Successful’</li>
<li> Certified for having completed ‘Look-It-Up’ program conducted by World Book - Child Craft International on 18th September, 1997.</li>
<li> Received ‘Certificate of Credit’ in Mathematics for participating in ‘International Competitions for Schools (Mathematics) conducted by Educational Testing Centre, The University of New South Wales, Australia in 1998.<br></li>
<li> Received ‘Certificate of Distinction’ in English for participating in ‘International Competitions for Schools’ conducted by Educational Testing Centre, The University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1998. </li>
<li> Received ‘Certificate of Credit’ in Science for participating in ‘International Competitions for Schools’ conducted by Educational Testing Centre, The University of New South Wales, Australia, in 1998.</li>
<li> Awarded ‘Best Boy’ for Public Speaking & Academics in the 5th grade’ by St. James’ School in 1998.</li>
<li> Finalist in All India Reynolds Scholarship 2001 for academics & overall excellence, a contest arranged by G.M.Pens International Pvt Ltd</li>
<li> Awarded 1st prize for the spelling bee ‘Word Cracking’ in the SPELLinc competition on 25th September, 2001, a project of ‘Encouraging literacy’ by Linc International</li>
<li>Certificate of ‘Very Good’ received from Unified Council for National Level Science Talent Search Examination 2001</li>
<li>Awarded a ‘Certificate of Participation’ for the spelling bee ‘Word Cracking’ in the finals of the SPELLinc competition on 8th February, 2002, a project of ‘Encouraging literacy’ by Linc International </li>
<li><p>Placed 1st in the spelling bee ‘Word Cracking’ in the SPELLinc competition on 21st August, 2002, a project of ‘Encouraging literacy’ by Linc International </p></li>
<li><p>Placed 1st for writing a Bengali essay on “Dowry & Torture on Women is a Social Evil” in a West Bengal state competition organized by a SWAYAM in 2002</p></li>
<li><p>Awarded the certificate ‘Very Good’ received from Unified Council for National Level Science Talent Search Examination 2002</p></li>
<li><p>Awarded the certificate ‘very good’ by Unified Council for National Level Science Talent Search Examination 2003</p></li>
<li><p>Awarded the ‘Certificate of Participation’ for the spelling bee ‘Word Cracking’ in the SPELLinc competition on 21st January, 2003, a project of ‘Encouraging literacy’ by Linc International. </p></li>
<li><p>Awarded certificate of ‘Distinction’ for participating in 5th National Science Olympiad on 30th January, 2003</p></li>
<li><p>Received a “Certificate of Entrant” award for University of Sheffield All India Schools Writing Competition 2005 organized by The University of Sheffield, U.K.</p></li>
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<p>ART & MUSIC</p>

<li> Awarded Certificate of Merit on 31st January, 1993, by the “Indo-American Society “based on the performance at a ‘Sit & Draw Competition’.</li>
<li> Placed 1st in Instrumental Music (Eastern) Solo competition on 3rd August, 1995 at St. James’ School.</li>
<li> Invited on 29th August, 1996, by All India Radio, Kolkata, to play the electric organ.<br></li>
<li> Passed The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London, Grade 1 Piano with Merit in 1998</li>
<li> Placed 2nd for Instrumental Music Solo 1998 by St. James’ School</li>
<li> Passed The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London, Grade 1 Piano Theory of Music with Distinction in 1999</li>
<li> Passed The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London, Grade 2 Piano with Merit in 1999</li>
<li> Passed The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London, Grade 2 Piano Theory of Music with Distinction in 2000</li>
<li> Passed The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London, Grade 3 Piano in 2000</li>
<li>Passed The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London, Grade 4 Piano with Merit in 2001</li>
<li>Passed The Associated Board of The Royal Schools of Music, London, Grade 3 Piano Theory of Music in 2002</li>
<li>Certificate of Association with Kolkata Repertory Theatre</li>
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<p>QUIZ</p>

<li> Received ‘Certificate of Participation’ for ‘The Maggie Quiz’ from Nestle India Ltd. on 1st September, 1997</li>
<li> Placed 1st in the Inter-House Quiz at St. James’ School on 16th July, 1999</li>
<li> Placed 3rd in ‘Discovery Channel Quiz 2000’ conducted by Discovery Channel.</li>
<li> Placed 1st for “Jubilee Quiz” organized by Don Bosco School on 17th July, 2000</li>
<li> Participated in Intra-School Bournvita Quiz contest 2000-2001 by Cadbury India Ltd</li>
<li> Placed 3rd in “Quiz Time” contest organized by SKM Youth committee on 12th July 2002.</li>
<li> Placed 1st in “Quiz Time” contest organized by SKM Youth committee on 18th July 2003</li>
<li> Received certificate of ‘Participation’ for “Xaverian Inter School Quiz 2003” organized by St. Xavier’s Collegiate School on 16th August 2003</li>
<li> Placed 1st in “NIE-Fun-Da-Mental School-Quiz” organized by the Times Of India group on 11th May, 2004</li>
<li>Received a ‘Certificate of Merit’ from St. John’s Diocesan Girls’ High School for participating in the prelims of the Inter School Topical Quiz Competition for 2004.</li>
<li>Placed 2nd in the finals of the Inter School Topical Quiz Competition for 2004
(Theme: “The Hand That Rocks the Cradle Rules the World”) organized by<br>
St.John’s Diocesan School…</li>
<li>Placed 2nd in the finals of “Jaco’Iz” organized by St. James’ School in June 2004.</li>
<li>Placed 1st in the Inter-House Quiz for Seniors at St. James’ School on
17th December, 2004</li>
<li> Placed 4th in “Sparkz-A-Quetz 2004” organized by Ballygunge Shiksha Sadan </li>
<li> Placed 4th in “Mark Bountain Memorial Quiz” organized by the Assembly of God’s Church School, Kolkata.</li>
<li>Received certificate of ‘Participation’ for “Rotary Centennial Quiz 2004” from Rotary Club of Dumdum, Kolkata.</li>
<li>Placed 3rd in “Jubilee Quiz 2004” from Don Bosco School, Kolkata</li>
<li>Placed 2nd in “The Puffin-Landmark Inter-School Quiz Contest 2004” organized by Penguin Books India </li>
<li> Placed 2nd in “The Heritage Quiz” organized by La Martini ere for Boys on 28th August, 2004.</li>
<li>Placed 1st in the finals of “Jaco’Iz 2005” organized by St. James’ School, Kolkata</li>
<li>Received certificate of ‘Participation’ for “Inter School Topical Quiz” from National Gems Higher Secondary School, Kolkata on 7th May, 2005</li>
<li>Placed 1st in the “Jaco Synthesis 2005” quiz organized by St. James’ School, Kolkata.</li>
<li>Awarded ‘Certificate of Merit’ for participating in the prelims of the Inter-School Theme Quiz 2005 organized by St.John’s Diocesan School.</li>
<li>Placed 1st in the finals of the Inter-School Theme Quiz Contest 2005 (Theme: “Mosaic-Glimpses of Alienated Civilizations”) organized by St.John’s Diocesan School. </li>
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<p>DEBATE</p>

<li> Participated in ‘Life begins at 40’in Class IX</li>
<li> Participated in ‘Cabbages are better than roses’ in Class X</li>
<li> Participated in ‘India has sold Tibet to China’ in Class XI</li>
<li> Participated in ‘ ‘ Class XII</li>
<li> Participated in ‘Women have equal rights as Men’ in Class XII</li>
<li> Participated in Bosco Fest 2004 debate </li>
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<p>PRESTIGIOUS AWARD</p>

<li> Enrolled as a member of the National Geographic Society on 1st June 1997</li>
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<p>JOURNALISM</p>

<li> Regular Contributor to school magazine’ “Jacobean”.</li>
<li> Regular contributor to school Bengali Language Magazine “Sarangsho”. </li>
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<p>GAMES & SPORTS</p>

<li> A regular participant in class & house football matches</li>
<li> Represented St. James’ School as Manager for Inter-School Tennis tournament in November 2004 organized by Indian Tennis Academy</li>
<li> A regular player of Salt Lake FD block (own neighborhood) football & cricket team. He represented FD block under-19 Nursery league of North 24 Paraganas</li>
<li> A regular player of Baguiati Subhas Sangha Football Club</li>
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<p>SOCIAL SERVICE</p>

<li> Participant in “Tsunami March” organized by St. James School & all leading schools of Kolkata in February 2005 to raise fund for the victims</li>
<li> Participant in the drive organized by the Rotary Club of Calcutta ‘City of Joy’ to raise funds in aid of the victims of the Tsunami in February 2005</li>
<li> A regular volunteer of The International Association of Lions Clubs of Asansol (East) to serve in outreach camps for the poor blind in distant villages, I.O.L. microsurgical camp, blood donation camp, diabetes detection camp & health check up camp of school students</li>
<li> A regular volunteer of Rotary Club of Asansol participating in Polio Plus camps, Health Check-up camps, Cleanliness of different important places in and around Asansol etc.</li>
<li> A regular participant in programmes such as distribution of medicines, old garments etc., teaching poor children in camps and also participant of various community work organized by St. Paul’s Church, Asansol</li>
<li> A regular participant of community work in own neighborhood</li>
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<p>LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION:</p>

<li> Appointed school ‘Prefect’ for the academic year 2005-2006.</li>
<li> Appointed “President” of the school quiz club, ‘Quizobean’.</li>
<li> Appointed “Director” for St. James’ School Mathematics club.</li>
<li> Part of organizing committee of “Jaco Iz” in 2004 and 2005.</li>
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<p>Supplementary Material: Audio cd: 1) Piano:Fur Elise
2) Radio Concert</p>

<pre><code> Research: 1) Math project on the significance of
pi and a statistical project.
2) Project on wetlands
</code></pre>

<p>SAT 1: 760 Verbal, 740 Writing , 730 Math, SAT 2: Forthcoming</p>

<p>Please rate my chances</p>

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<p>wow...are we allowed to include awards from prior to ninth grade? i think's it is limited to your high school career...</p>

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<p>Too wordy dude. Mad boring to read. It's like a laundry list. Edit it, seriously.</p>

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<p>are you international? if so... well depends on who else is applying from your area... I would say go for it but don't expect too much</p>

<p>oh ya... ditch the pre-high school stuff</p>

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<p>Just wondering, is it uncommon to take New South Wales tests in your school? For my previous high school it was almost mandatory, and unless you get a perfect score, the test is considered very unimpressive. Most people get distinctions and credits so it really isn't a feat. Maybe you should just include the more prestigious awards? Such a laundry list makes it difficult to separate the more significant awards from the mundane...</p>

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<p>cant help the laundry list...I share the same sentiments with u guyz but this is what our school "counsellor" (ahem!!! seld created position) does.
Oh yeah I also hv work experience...... will the wordiness be a problemo?
The Harvard recruiter who came 2 our school (!!) said that if there were significant awards before high school,we could include those as well</p>

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<p>"significant awards before high school" means, first very important awards, and second awards that you could've won in high school (i.e. concerto competition where you beat out high school students). Awards that you won when you were 5 will DEFINITELY be looked down upon (unless you were the first five-year old to write a 500-page novel or something) Sit-and-draw??? C'mon man, use your head. and 2. Attended ‘Computer Awareness’ course conducted by St. James’ School in September, 1997, & declared ‘Successful.’ ***???? how many people got declared successful??? some of those are seriously meaningless awards. Trim it down. i'm not bashing you here, just trying to help your resume.</p>

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<p>Yeah no prob taken in good spirit</p>

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<p>bump...but I'm sure my counsellor wont agree and he's the one who makes the resume as my school attaches the resume with the schol report . He thinks a longer reco will increase my chances. SO should I agrue with him coz if he gets ****ed off he might do something which I wouldn't like....</p>

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<p>"Research: 1) Math project on the significance of
pi and a statistical project.
2) Project on wetlands"
arent these the one's compulsory for High School Students?</p>

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<p>I went to a Dartmouth session and a woman asked about how long our EC lists should be. Her response was that she has to read THOUSANDS of apps and if you have a ridiculously long list...they will just quickly scan it. This means that some of the awards that you have won that actually mean something could be looked over, and instead they could see an award that you won in 3rd grade for having the neatest desk. Don't come off as an idiot. The admissions officer actually said that she prefers students to do it like this:</p>

<p>Community Service: 50 hours a year
(BigBrothers, Hospital)</p>

<p>School Service: 100 hours a year
(Model UN VP, etc.)</p>

<p>No one has time to read everything you listed, especially when it is mostly crap.</p>

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<p>Select a more advanced piece for your CD. Fur Elise is for beginners.</p>

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<p>Yeah but Fur Elise is one of my favorites. I could play Tarantella of the theme from "The Godfather" (sigh!!!!!) too but I somehow like Fur Elise. Anywayz, I;m not applying for a music scholarship so I'm trying to be endearing (read cute and cuddly) to the assessors</p>

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<p>If the adcoms deal with music supplements by sending them in for review by the respected departments... I'll I'm going to say is that fur elise is definitely not a good choice. I'm not advocating not submitting a piece--just don't submit fur elise. It might also be a good idea not to list every single level that you passed.</p>

<p>just trying to help :)</p>

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<p>I don't think they'll care what you got in 5th grade unless you won the National Spelling Bee.</p>

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<p>Hey Hey I'm surprised at the poor response the poor fella's got. I mean in India, to do this and actually maintain a good class rank is really really really hard. Stop bickering and give credit where its do. Word of advice to soumyajeet, dont exxagerate academic honors...5th grade stuff and comp awareness should be deleted rest all OK. I'm a Harvard student btw</p>

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<p>prestigious award? i think i am a member of the ngs because i suscribe to national geograpic lol. i would make that more clear if it is a prestigious award.</p>

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<p>YOu have alot of really goot EC's, just cut out the less improtant one's and the one's from before 9th grade and you'll be fine. </p>

<p>YOu have about as good a chance as any - depends on how well you present it.</p>

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<p>Cheers to sid jacob.I wonder who he is.........hmmm....
Newaz sweetestsith bit off da topic but what dya say to a movie of the war between the Jedi and the Sith a millenia before the Phantom Menace / a movie on Darth Plagius ?</p>

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<p>lol I would be quite amused - Yoda as a young man, er, I mean, creature, no one really knows his species...Yes - would be lovely!</p>