Hi, I’m a Vietnamese student who goes to an international school. Please chance me for the schools im applying to.
Reach- Stanford, Berkeley, Cornell, Brown
Match- USC, Tulane, Uni of Virginia, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, WashU, UCSB
Safety- Still looking, please suggest me some safety
Objective:
SAT I: 2050 (will retake in Oct, I know my current SAT is low but I’m working on it and hoping to get 2200)
SAT II: 790 Math II, 780 Chemistry
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): I don’t know because I do A levels at school. My predicted grades are A for all 4 subjects I’m taking.
Ranking: I’m 1st in my class of 40 (my school is new and its a pretty expensive private school so not that many students)
Senior Year Course Load: A level Chemistry, Maths, Literature, Economics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): 1st place for public speaking contest in grade 9, Principal Award for International Understanding grade 9, principal’s most honorable award for best student in grade 11, UKMT math challenge bronze medal grade 9, UKMT math challenge bronze medal grade 11, Best presentation for City Enterprise Challenge, Best in school for Economics, Literature, Vietnamese, ICT, Science and highest IGCSE scores in school (I dont know if these are consider major tho
Extracurriculars:
-Student Council (9,11,12) - President (9,11,12)
-Eco-committee (9,10,11,12) - Co-founder (9), President (11,12) - this a committee that works on environmental issues in the school and local community, I’ve started multiple projects withing the school
-Community service club (10,11,12) - Co-founder (10), President (12) - set up an official fundraiser and fundraising system for the school, organize multiple book drives, clothes drive, fund raising events within school for local orphanages etc
-Mentoring (11,12) - mentor 2 students in Maths and Economics during grade 11 and I’m setting up a whole school mentoring system that gets a senior year student to mentor a younger year student in grade 12
-Chairperson of “Three Poles Talk project” - this is a project where I co-operate with my school and a PR firm in bringing a Hong Kong environmentalist to Vietnam to deliver 3 sessions of speeches for 4 days at my school and 2 other campuses of my school, and event with businesses
-Piano (10 years) - taking Yamah course (it’s a japanese piano program and I’m grade 5 ), performed at local shows and took part in a drama with the student at my piano school every year
-Swimming (6 years) - train with personal coach at local swimming pool every weekend, was on the school swim team (grade 11)
Job/Work Experience: unpaid internship at national magazine during summer before grade 11 and grade 12 (i write and translate articles and do a lot of office tasks)
Volunteer/Community service:
- Volunteer at local orphanages with school community club
- I form an English tutor group (I’m head of the tutor group) of 5 mentors and travel to a pagoda in a province in Vietnam and teach English for 50 kids every summer
-Estimated volunteer hours: estimated 150 hours
Summer Activities:
-Internship at national magazine
-English teaching for kids at the pagoda
-summer camp (this camp trains young people with academic, life skills, NLP, goal setting, etc) I was a camp leader when I joined it in summer before grade 11 and return as a camp mentor (I was Team leader of the mentor group) in summer before grade 12. I’m also in a coaching program with the professor who is also the lead mentor of the camp
Applied for Financial Aid?: Not Sure yet, but probably not
Intended Major: I’m looking at interdisciplinary programs of the schools (for ex: development studies for berkeley, etc and I’m interested in psychology and creative writing for minor
Country (if international applicant):Vietnam
School Type: International School (my school is very new, it has only been opened for 4 years and it hasnt got much connections with organizations and it also very hard to start an activity in the school)
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: I don’t know exactly, I’ll say I’m middle class