Hi! I’m currently applying to Andover and Exeter for 12th grade.
I’m from Morocco, I speak 4 languages Arabic, French, English, and Korean.
I’m a junior I attend an American based School on a full-ride scholarship, my GPA is 3.97 I have all A’s except one B+, I’m not submitting my SAT or ACT scores because they are optional this year for both schools, and I have not taken them yet.
My extracurriculars:
I have conducted a research paper under the assistance of a research associate at Princeton University about a political related phenomena in Africa.
I wrote an essay about social, gender, and racial inequality which granted me a full ride to the Cambridge University economics program.
I’m the first representative of Morocco under the One Young World organization.
I had a workshop with the Stanford Daily magazine, with a full-ride scholarship too, during my period of time working with them, I did a multimedia project which was about comparing economies of developing and developed countries, it was in form of an interview with an economics professor at Yale University and economist at the ministry of finance in Morocco.
I have founded my school’s newspaper.
Founded a 9endil which is a non-profit organization that aims to gather Moroccan teens and help them to speak up for the issues they face in Moroccan society.
I founded GlobalSpeakArt, which is is “an online museum” where people publish their artworks for free, and also it’s a place where people could check art pieces of people from different parts of the world.
Diversuntries, which is a video podcast I founded that one too, and I am the host we bring people from different parts of the world and we help them to present their countries to the people who are interested in learning about different countries.
I’m a scholar at Notre Dame University international relations course. I got in with a full-ride scholarship too
Reporter at an international youth magazine.
Participant at NASA race to space.
Played Karate for around 6 years and became the coach for kids for two years.
I worked as an English tutor of kids for one year.
I took economic and political related courses with UNICEF and the United States Institute of Peace.
I’m an AMP global scholar member in the advisory board and high-level speaker.
I took a course in meditation and problem solving and I became a middle school mediator for about 6 months.
Some of that sounds quite interesting. I wonder/worry though about applying for 12th grade. That’s a pretty unusual entry point and would usually be limited to athletes filling a specific, needed role on a varsity team.
I might call the schools - and several others - to ask whether and how many new 12th graders they take each year. My guess is that the number will be somewhere between zero and a very small handful, sorry to say.
@DroidsLookingFor I think it is an international student thing - sometimes colleges indicate they want students to come to the US for a year of school. Might be something like that - there was a female student like that last year, or the year before?
I agree, impossible for most of us to chance but I wouldn’t say it’s an impossible positive.
@one1ofeach gotcha. I think in my mind that was more of a PG thing than a 12th grade thing though perhaps that’s a distinction without a difference in this context.
@user_679029 in re-reading your post you definitely sound like an interesting, committed person. I would call/email the admissions offices of several schools - far more than just PA and PEA - and ask about applying as a 12th grader. Ultimately, if you can convince them via interviews and essays that you can bring the same positive contribution to their community that it seems you’ve brought to yours, then you may just have a chance.