I am an American citizen applying to college in the US (white/male).
Rising Senior, from London.
Grades
SAT: 2220 - Math 780, Writing 760, CR 680
Retaking SAT in Oct & taking subject tests
Class rank- Top 10% at a top free school.
GCSE Grades- 7 A* 4 A
AS level grades- 6 A
Planning to major in economics.
-Work experience at an internet security company (2014)
-Work experience at a tutoring company (2015)
Awards
-Silver certificate in British Olympiad (top 200 in the country)
-Certificate of distinction in intermediate maths olympiad (top 250 in country)
-Came 17th out 8800 teams in the Student Investor competition.
Extra-curricular
-Placed first in my borough for the last 3 year at long jump, and won school athletics award.
-I play rugby for the school 2nd team.
-Grade 8 pianist, I have a youtube channel (been playing for 11 years)
Other
-Vice house captain, maths prefect, founder of economics society at my school.
Planning to apply to Yale Early Action, along with:
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, UPenn, UC schools (Berkeley & UCLA), UChicago
My grades aren’t perfect but pretty solid, and I have a solid amount of extra-curriculars compared to others at my school but it seems like american applicants have a lot more extra-curricular.
Hoping to retake SAT and get 2300+
Mainly interested in my chances at Yale and UPenn.
Any reply at all would be highly appreciated! Thanks in advance