<p>I am currently a student in my final two years of school in Ireland. We only do 2 years of what could be described as High School. I moved to Ireland last year from the United Kingdom where I was born and attend secondary school. I plan to major in Business. I am a first generation college/university student, from all sides of my family. My parents got divorced which is my reason for moving country. My family is pretty average in terms of wealth etc.(any hooks here)</p>
<p>Predicted grades
English - A1
Maths - A1
Applied Maths - A1
Biology - A1
Physics - A1
Economics - A1
Business A1
History (self taught) A1
So that would be a perfect GPA?</p>
<p>EC -
Competing to join the Irish Math Olympiad team
Economics blog which I will be launching soon
Self taugh Korean
Student Council of both schools
Awarded for outstanding exam results, at school level.
Entering several writing competitions.</p>
<p>I will do everything possible to get the highest possible if not full marks in my final exams
I plan to also sit the SAT exam and SAT II, and get near full marks in all of them. I know it sounds arrogant to say I am going to get these marks, but I believe it is what I need to do to get into one of the worlds best universities. I plan to do Physics, and Maths for my SAT II</p>
<p>In 2013 summer I plan to heading of to South Korea, for the Korea University Summer School, to develop a understanding of foreign culture which I have a great interest in. I also plan to achieve top grades there.</p>
<p>Many thanks to everyone (writing this at 1am after being up from 6.30am its been a long day, please excuse mistakes)</p>
<p>You sound like a competitive applicant for most top colleges at the U.S. (When I say that, I mean that your chances are 10%+, which sounds harsh except for the 6-ish% acceptance rate at Harvard, Columbia, Princeton, Stanford, etc.)</p>
<p>However: Harvard does not have an undergraduate business major.</p>
<p>I will be majoring for Economics at undergraduate, and from there go onto do a MBA hopefully </p>
<p>I fully understand that having a 10% chance is an outstanding high chance for Harvard, I just hope my country and first generation college student can help Would it also be good if I could possibly get a recommendation from an alumni?</p>
<p>Only if that alumni’s recommendation would say things about you that are both good enough and different enough from your other recommendations that you would send it if he/she wasn’t an alum. I think they see a lot of alumni-or-famous-person-recommendations-just-for-the-sake-of-the-name-of-the-recommender, haha. If it’s just like “Well sganyfx is a nice kid and pretty smart I guess also I am an alum,” it’s not going to help you. (I do think an awesome letter from an alum might be slightly better than an awesome letter than a non-alum, if they talk specifically about how you’d fit in, but that a mediocre letter is a mediocre letter no matter who is writing it.)</p>
<p>Ah ok, not going to try and go out of my way trying to get one unless it pops up :P</p>
<p>Would it be worth mentioning I am paying for the Korean Summer School from my own personal money I have made from investments and savings? I also helped my mum out a lot during her divorce in terms of loaning her thousands of pounds etc.</p>
<p>If you are looking for a good business undergraduate university which would value your skills in investing, consider U. of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.</p>
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Would it also be good if I could possibly get a recommendation from an alumni?</p>