<p>Location:
School Type:
GPA:
Ranking:
SAT:CR M W Total
SAT II:
ACT:
AP/IB:
Awards:
Leadership:
Community Service:
Other Notable ECs:
Ethnicity:
Gender:</p>
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<p>To ED/SCEA:
To EA:
To RD:
Intended Major:</p>
<h2>To Apply for F/A: Y/N</h2>
<p>Anything to share:</p>
<p>Briefly here XD:
Location: ON
School Type: Super hard public school lol
GPA: Most likely 4.0 in US terms
Ranking: estimate top 10
SAT:CR M W Total
SAT II: bio 760, math 2 750
ACT:
AP/IB:
Awards:
Leadership: 5 club leaderships
Community Service: 2 community organization leaderships + various works
Other Notable ECs: Orchestra stuff. Some self business work lol. I keep a cool blog 
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: F</p>
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<p>To ED/SCEA: Wharton (maybe)
To EA: Uchicago (maybe)
To RD: Ivy league + possibily Stanford
Intended Major: Business (economics)</p>
<h2>To Apply for F/A: Y</h2>
<p>Anything to share: still having trouble figuring out essays and recs. :P</p>
<p>Location: Ontario</p>
<p>School Type: Small/Mid-size Public (~800 students total)</p>
<p>GPA: ~90/100 (an A in Ontario)</p>
<p>*and if I may add - Course Rigor: All hardest courses I can take at my school, save for Drama Gr. 9-12 and Vocal Music in Gr. 11. Two Grade 12 courses in Gr. 11. No spares. GC will most likely say “Most Demanding”.</p>
<p>Ranking: ~5% (getting GC to calculate it)</p>
<p>SAT:CR 790 M 760 W 750 Total: 2300</p>
<p>SAT II:TBD Oct. 9 :(</p>
<p>AP/IB: Not at my school</p>
<p>Awards: George Earl Wilson History Award, Other School Awards (Drama, Bio, English, Writer’s Craft, maybe some others), Best Ensemble in Province - Sears Ontario Drama Festival</p>
<p>Leadership: Student Council President Gr. 11 and 12 (Gr. 9 Rep and Executive assistant before), founder of anti-victimization committee Gr. 9-12, Drama Club Lead Performed Gr. 9-12, Model UN Club founder and president Gr. 11-12</p>
<p>Community Service: playing piano at church and rotary club luncheons</p>
<p>Other Notable ECs: Math Tutor (gr. 10), Piano Instructor (10), Gr. 8 Piano RCM with first class honours, Local Radio Correspondent (11-12), Theater Instructor at Local Academy (10-11), Mark’s Work Wearhouse Associate (11-12), Canadian Tire commercial, self-taught intermediate German (11-12), many other theater productions in area as lead/supporting role</p>
<p>Ethnicity: White/Caucasian</p>
<p>Gender: Male</p>
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<p>To ED: Wharton maybe
To RD: Harvard, UChicago, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Brown, MIT, UPenn (if not EDing),
Intended Major: Business/Econ</p>
<h2>To Apply for F/A: YES</h2>
<p>Anything to share: I know those schools are reaches but I need FA. Just gotta make those essays kickasss…</p>
<p>Haha I just realized I crammed a lot of stuff in there compared to Fatum!! Sorry…</p>
<p>Location: Alberta, Canada
School Type: Public
GPA: 91%
Ranking: School doesn’t rank, definitely top 10%. Grad class of 779
Course Rigor: IB Certificate, but I’m taking all 3 sciences and math and French in IB. Only humanities in honors.
School: Top public school in Western Canada.</p>
<p>SAT: (Taking in October)</p>
<p>SAT II: (Taking Math II/Chem in November)</p>
<p>ACT: No</p>
<p>AP/IB: Math IB SL - 7, Bio IB SL - 6</p>
<p>Awards: Alexander Rutherford Scholarship (Provincial, won it 3 times)
Honor Society (School, 3 times)
Pascal National Math Contest Distinction (Once)
RCAC National Effective Speaking Contest (Bronze)</p>
<p>Leadership:
Royal Canadian Air Cadets (Great leadership building, and instructional program)</p>
<p>Community Service:
Volunteer at church every Sunday and during summers
Hundreds of community service hours from Air Cadets</p>
<p>Other Notable ECs:
JV/V Basketball (1 year)
JV/V Football (2 years)
Club Basketball (5 years)
Patti Falconer Acting and Modelling Agency (3 years, appeared in commercials, offered movie role)</p>
<p>Ethnicity: African (Born in Nigeria, but I have Canadian citizenship also)
Gender: M</p>
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<p>To ED/SCEA: Duke
To EA: N/A
To RD: HYPS, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, Notre Dame, WASTL, Cornell, Columbia, McGill, Toronto, British Columbia, Alberta.
Intended Major: Pre-Med/Biology</p>
<h2>To Apply for F/A: Yes, but I may not need it.</h2>
<p>Anything to share: Hoping I can get a 2250+ on the SAT and combine that with my URM status to get into one of my American choices :)</p>
<p>Location: Vancouver, BC
School Type: mediocre public
GPA: 93.1/100
Ranking: Top 5%, exact rank unknown
SAT: CR 730 M 800 W 800 Total 2330
SAT II: Math II 800, Physics 800, Chinese with Listening (projected 800)
ACT: N/A
AP/IB: Microeconomics 4
Macroeconomics 4
Psychology 4
Calculus AB 4
English Composition and Language 3 (=( )
Awards: AP Scholar with Distinction
Fermat Contest National Winner
AIME x 2
CMO x 1
numerous in-school awards and medals from table tennis tournaments
Leadership: President of Math Club, Captain of Varsity Table Tennis team
Community Service: Youth camp counselor, 200 hrs
School teaching assistant, 150 hrs
Other Notable ECs: Basketball writer/ freelance translater (11,12)
Officer of Student Council (11,12)
Community Youth Committee (12)
JV basketball (9)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male</p>
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<p>To ED/SCEA: Penn Wharton
To EA: U Mich Ross
To RD: Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Northwestern, Duke, Rice, WUSTL, Amherst, U Washington, U Waterloo, McGill
Intended Major: Finance (Wharton), mathematics, economics</p>
<h2>To Apply for F/A: Y</h2>
<p>Anything to share: C’mon guys, where are my fellow 11’ers?</p>
<p>Nosike, I’m surprised you’re applying to Duke ED as a biology/pre-med… I would have thought Johns Hopkins would be your #1</p>
<p>I do really prefer Hopkins Pre-Med, but I love the athletic atmosphere at Duke too much.</p>
<p>Didn’t Viggy have a thread like this before??</p>
<p>LOL: “Hello, hinderpanda, it appears that you have not posted on our forums in several weeks, why not take a few moments to ask a question, help solve another member’s problem, or just join a conversation?”</p>
<p>Location: West Vancouver
School Type: Small Selective Private
GPA: N/A
Ranking: Top 3/60
SAT:
CR 750 M 700 (hopefully will improve) W 770 Total 2220
SAT II: Taking in October
ACT: N/A
**IB (full IB Diploma Programme): **
Math SL: 6/7, Physics HL: 6/7, French SL: 6/7, Film HL: 7/7, English HL: 7/7, Economics SL: 7/7, ToK/EE: 3/3 Total: 42/45
**Awards: **
Film: Zoomfest Judges Selection, BCSFF 2nd Place
Scouting: Queen’s Venturer Award
Maybe Duke of Ed Gold
IDK I’m sure I can think of more later
Leadership:
Student Head of Global Outreach
Chairman of the Student Athletics Committee
Captain of Varsity Soccer
Community Service:
Scouts for the past 12 years (over 1000 service hours)
Global Outreach Trips to Costa Rica and Swaziland
Other Notable ECs:
Soccer (School and Regional Club)
Film (Write and Produce multiple movies every year)
Debate Team
Drumming (Various Bands and Projects over the years)
Etc.</p>
<p>Other:
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>
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<p>To ED/SCEA: Columbia
To EA:
To RD: Brown, Williams, Princeton, Harvard, Amherst, Dartmouth, UCLA, McGill, U of T, Queens, UBC, among others
Intended Major: Philosophy</p>
<h2>To Apply for F/A: Only to Schools need blind to Canadians</h2>
<p>Anything to share: I don’t know if my app is outstanding from an Ivy League perspective, but I think my essay and recs will set me apart.</p>
<p>@Nosike: I hear that the ‘Royal Canadian Air Cadets’ is a BIG helper in US college admission. As long as you get decent scores on SATs, it is very much likely that you will get into Duke.</p>
<p>@prjiki. That’s really interesting, where did you here that from?</p>
<p>Sorry guys, I didn’t feel like retyping all of my stats, so this has been done using a different format. (I also updated it since last year) </p>
<p>Location: Saskatchewan
Grade: 12
School: Public, no IB, and only one AP class (which i am currently taking)
Course load: I am taking the hardest courses available at my school
GPA: The average of my compulsory courses last semester was 97.6.
So, 4.0 (unweighted), 4.75 (weighted)
SAT I: Taking in October, but judging by my practice tests I can achieve a 2200+ (I hope!)
SAT II: Taking in November, but I am taking Biology M, Chemistry and one of the Maths (haven’t decided which one yet)
ACT: not taking
Rank: 1/220
Essays: If I work really hard, they can be decent
Intended Major: biology/chemistry/physics/psychology/neuroscience- i eventually want to go into medicine</p>
<p>Extra curricular:
-Ballet since I was 3, including RAD exams. I dance about 5 times a week
-Classical Piano since I was 6, including exams, and I have been
competing in the local music festival since I was little, and have done
well in it. (a few firsts, a couple of seconds here and there)
-I have been tutoring a 5th grader in math for 2 years
-I was the lead in my schools production of Annie, and was a dancer in
last years musical
-I am currently the lead role in my school’s production of The Sound Of Music
-I did clerical work for the at my mom’s office for some of the doctors
(she is a family physician)
-Some of my writing has been published in my school’s creative writing
journal.
-This summer I worked as a hostess at a restaurant in the Sheraton, got to meet people from all over the world.
-I am a member of the synchrotron club at my school, where we research and do an experiment at the Canadian Light Source Synchrotron
-I am also an “Ambassador” of my school and work closely with international students</p>
<p>Teacher recommendations: I think they will be pretty good, I am very involved in class
discussions, and I worked closely with a lot of them in the
musical, so I think they know me pretty well.</p>
<p>Community recommendations: My dance and music teachers have known me since I was
little and can account for my commitment and work ethic</p>
<p>Hobbies/interests: I am very interested in the sciences and all, but outside of school I
love to cook, read, play music, write music, listen to music etc. And
I am not one of those kids with high marks who spend the entire
weekend studying in their rooms. I do have a social life.</p>
<p>Awards: Nothing of importance, just music festival, school awards for academics, performance award for my performance in the musical and I
placed well in some math contests. </p>
<p>Ethnicity: White/ Caucasian
Gender: female
Hook: I don’t think this is considered a hook, but I have grown up with a sister who has an
eating disorder, which I believe has made me a stronger person blah blah blah
Other than that, my dad went to cambridge (in the uk) and is a biochemistry prof,
and my mother is a doctor, but again, that is certainly no hook. </p>
<p>Applying ED: None, can’t get SAT’s done in time
Applying RD: Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, NYU, Northwestern, UBC, Mcgill, and I am already accepted to the U of S (received a $3000 entrance scholarship in the mail the other day without even applying yet haha, I don’t know how that happened)</p>
<p>i thought it would be nice to bump this thread for this year’s incoming Canadian applicants to US universities :)</p>
<p>Location: Toronto ON
School Type: Public (it’s pretty small and in the west end of Toronto)
GPA: uhh not sure but I’m ranked in the top 1%, ~95%
Ranking: 2 or 3/300
SAT:CR 760 M 760 W 720 Total 2240
SAT II: TBD October 1
ACT: //
AP/IB:
taking 6 APs this year, took 6 pre-APs in grade 11
taking Chem, Bio, Physics, Calculus & Vectors, Advanced Functions, European History</p>
<p>Awards:
2011 Toronto Star High School Newspaper Awards 1st place for Humor
Shad/ RIM Entrepreneurship Cup 1st place for Web Design and 3rd place for Scientific Application
Duke of Edinburgh Bronze and Silver, working on Gold
Best Junior Delegate, MMUN 2011
Top 25% in all those Waterloo math contests
Top 1% UBC Michael Smith Challenge in grade 10
University of Toronto Biology Contest, school team ranked 3rd in Canada
Shad Valley, Most Likely to Take Over the World (LOL I wish I could actually use that as a legit award)</p>
<p>Leadership:
Student Council (4 years), Publicity this upcoming year
Model UN (we host our own symposium and invite schools), Secretary General
Chinese Cultural Club, founder and President for 2 years
School Newspaper, in grade 10: featured columnist, in gr. 11 and 12: Editor in chief, layout Editor (lol two in one)
Amnesty International Club, Vice President
School Yearbook, 4 years as Layout </p>
<p>Community Service:
Volunteer at local historic site for 4 years
Volunteer at Trillium Health Centre and St. Michael’s hospital
Volunteer for 4 years at Toronto Public Library in 4+ programs</p>
<p>Other Notable ECs:
-I frequently write for a feminist magazine in Toronto
-I do some graphic design with mentorship from a graphic design studio in TO
-I’m on the executive committee of organizers of a semi-private University fair held in October for business students, with funding from the top business schools in Ontario (Schulich, Rotman, Ivey, Queen’s)
-attended a math camp and a computer science camp at Waterloo, and Shad Valley in 2010
<p>Ethnicity: F
Gender: Chinese </p>
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<p>To ED/SCEA: Columbia ED
To EA:
To RD: the rest of the Ivy League + Duke
Intended Major: Finance </p>
<h2>To Apply for F/A: Probably</h2>
<p>Anything to share:
I did okay on AMC 12 last year, high enough to qualify for the next level and to be invited to Canada/USA Math Camp this summer (which I couldn’t attend due to scheduling conflicts) and a private math contest at MIT which was held this past weekend (which I also couldn’t attend due to scheduling conflicts…sigh my life)</p>
<p>I know my SAT score is on the low side…ick
I’m hoping to do well on my three subject tests
I don’t have spectacular awards. While I love all my ECs and I do them for my own personal enjoyment, they don’t show much in terms of direction. They’re a bit scattered and all over the place, which kinda represents my own super diverse interests.</p>
<p>Just a note for you to think about: I think some of you are providing way too much information about yourselves that your identity could be known. If you’ve got a few posts, not a big deal, but if you have a history on CC this might matter to you.</p>
<p>CC is not exactly an obscure website to those south of the border.</p>