Hi, I am an international student who wants to study in the US.
I’m Egyptian
My scores:
GPA:4.0 UW
Rank: school doesn’t rank but I’m in the top 2%
My school is very competitive and has branches all over the world (its a part of the SABIS system)
External exams:
IGCSE English first language: A*
IGCSE Biology (self-study): A*
IGCSE Mathematics: A*
IGCSE Arabic first language: A*
IGCSE Computer science: A
AS Biology (self-study)
AS mathematics
AP Statistics (self-study)
AP English language and composition
AP Physics 1 (self-study)
AP Psychology (self-study)
IGCSE Chemistry
IGCSE Physics
IGCSE Economics
IGCSE Business (self-study)
Exams with no listed grades are not released yet.
Senior year externals:
AP Environmental Science (self-study)
AP Calculus AB
AP Calculus BC
AP Biology
AP chemistry
AP Physics 2
AP macroeconomics (self-study)
AP microeconomics (self-study)
AP English literature (may or may not take the exam itself after completing the course)
A-level Chemistry
A-level Mathematics (self-study)
A-level Biology
For extracurriculars: TA for economics, English, business, mathematics, mechanics, chemistry, physics, and Arabic
Shadow Academic Quality controller
Gymnastics (won 1st place on floor 2 years in a row. 2nd then 1st on beam, 3rd all around the competition was national)
Volleyball (competed nationally and won third place)
I conduct free mentoring sessions on weekends for students who struggle academically or need help with certain topics.
After lockdown, I started conducting them online.
Currently building a website to help people who struggle with online school and academics in general. The goal is to bring potential and empowering people who feel broken.
I don’t have any job/volunteer records because of strict labour laws ( i have to be 18 and I will be graduating when I’m 16)
Currently, I self-studied latex and I am self-studying human behavioural biology and philosophy (for the fun of it since I find it very interesting)
I was going to get a lab internship but got cancelled due to the pandemic.
I know what will my essays be about ( they will illustrate while I continuously teach people and why I created the website and why I developed certain goals I want to achieve. The essays won’t be about the teaching or the creation of the website themselves, but about why I was motivated to do these things in the first place and how they will allow me to achieve the vision I see)
forgot to add
I was qualified and competing in a couple of other things I liked doing but they all got cancelled due to COVID.
I was planning on taking the SAT but now it’s not an option because all exam centres are closed.
I want a university that has a competitive environment and will always inspire me to do better.
I don’t mind locations since I’m not bound to a certain area
I want a university that will offer scholarships and/or some financial aid
TBH I’d like a uni close to the city but if there are fits not close to a city I’d still like to know about them.
(BTW for my unreleased test scores, my predicted scores estimate mostly A*s and 5s but for AS exams it’s an A because of the different scale used)
(also I’ve been teaching since 5th grade its something I genuinely like doing. and as you can see, I don’t have many extracurriculars because I stuck to doing what I liked doing instead of trying to do too many things)
The topics and courses I’ve explored and found extremely interesting are:
Macroeconomics (I’ve explored it beyond highschool level)
Philosophy
Human behavioural Biology
Physics (I’ve explored it at a uni-level by reading books and watching lectures)
Cancer cells
My recommendation letters will be from the head of English and the head of chemistry (our school only allowed 2 letters per student)
which uni will be a good fit for me?
If you’ve read that far, thank you soo much. I appreciate it because our school offers no counselling and thus I have no fresh external POV on this matter.
SABIS publishes the college admissions right on it’s website, so if no one at your own high school is doing the counseling, get help from one of the other branches. If you still want outside help after that, contact the advisors at the AMIDEAST office closest to where you live.
Are the AP exams formally part of your program? You don’t need any AP exams if you have IGCSE results. AP scores aren’t used for college admission. They are used for credit or advanced placement after you have enrolled. Many colleges/universities will award credit or advanced placement for your A Level results. So you can save yourself some time, trouble, and money, and skip the AP exams. You have a lot of exams listed as self-study, drop those and focus on the exams that are directly related to your classes. From the looks of things, you already have plenty of those.
I know there are a lot of female full-ride gymnastics scholarships in the US but I don’t know how the level of Egyptian gymnastics compares to NCAA gymnastics. I know that even the very top level of NCAA gymnastics doesn’t compare with the very top of US nationals/world’s/Olympics.
Here are schools that sponsor gymnastics:
https://usagym.org/pages/home/college/womeninfo.html
No athletic scholarships at DivIII and Ivies but you may get enough fin aid (or merit money at schools that offer that) to afford it.
Full-ride scholarships at most of the non-Ivy DivI schools. Not sure about DivII.
You would want coaches to see your tape.