College Confidential - Mount Holyoke College

Chance me please! :)

thisgirl7-314657 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:06:03 GMT

Asian female

Major:
Business

Grades
Unweighted: 3.33
Soph: 3.71, 3.43 Junior: 3.29, 3.0
Weighted: 3.71
Soph: 4, 3.71 Junior: 3.71, 3.43

Tests
SAT 1 1750; M=650 W=480 R=600
(Taking in December, aiming for 2,200)
SAT 2; Japanese =660

APS
World history 3
US History 2
Psychology 3
Chemistry 2

Courses 9th-11:
4 APS 1 honors; 3 City College Courses which I got A's in.

Senior Classes:
AP Calculus AB
AP English
AP Government
AP Japanese
AP Phyiscs B
AP Economics
Advanced Journalism
college and career
general Business course at city college

Extracurriculars
1. Dragon boat team (drummer, paddler, race captain) 4 years
2. buildOn club (Vice president) 3 years
3. California scholarship Federation (3 years)
4. Peer mentor/coach (2 years)
5. Committee at school (Cochair) 3 years
6. Track and field 2 years
7. Spirit committe 2 years

Awards
- service leader awards
- 1st and 2nd place dragon boat medals
- miss teen chinatown scholarship finalist
- charity princess
- good student award from chinese school

Jobs
- Swimming instructor at ucsf (3 months)
- Senior Companion (3 months)
- Small Business Store (1 year); coached/train employees
- Tutor 2 months + still going

Volunteer
- Volunteers Club 200 hours @ various events (4 years)
- Lagunda Honda (spirit coordinator) 3 months
- Bryant Day Care center 3 months

Summer Programs
-Accounting Career Awareness Program summer residency at UCBerkeley
- Outward Bound Youth Leadership Corps

THANK YOU! <3 xoxo

ED 1 Questions

ConCerndDad-158530 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:37:53 GMT

1. My D applied ED1 and just received the secret handshake for ISIS to check her app status. ISIS says everything is there for her app except the 2 teacher letters. D thinks these letters were sent to MHC weeks ago. Does it take time to match earlier received papers with the electronic files? For similarly situated prospies (and aged P's of prospies), are your teacher letters associated with your file yet?

2. Are ED1 decisions all mailed out on one day, or are they mailed out on a rolling basis once the decision making process has been completed for that app? I ask because the admissions dean said that ED1 decisions would go out about 4 weeks after receipt, and that MHC was closed from mid-Dec to Jan 1, so nothing will go out on Jan. 1, the "official" date of notification, per the web site.

Do interviews matter a lot at MHC?

ctswimmer1221-313074 — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:07:21 GMT

I will have an interview with the associate director of admissions soon, I generally give very good interviews and have been told that I know more about the university than the admissions officer does, or it felt like they were talking to an old friend. also i have been told that i have nothing to worry about at other schools like dickinson, hobart william smith, gettysburg, and franklin marshall. But my mom thinks that I may not get in with my grades and sat scores. my gpa is a 3.0 and i have an 1890 on the sats. i have been swimming for 8 years and I have been on my high school swim team for four years, i was co-captain this year. I have a wealth of extra curricular activities and I have recently taken a leadership position in my schools mock trial club, I am currently the secretary and one of the head attorneys. Is Mount Holyoke out of my league, be honest. With a good interview would I have a chance of being waitlisted or even accepted? I would be applying regular because I was told that a more competitive poll of applicants applies early and I have a better chance for admission if I apply regular. MHC is the only women's college I am applying to, I would apply to Barnard but it really is out of my league. I have visited and toured MHC and I known the area of South Hadley/Amherst/North Hampton very well because I took a three week summer course at Amherst College and earned college credits from Amherst in Writing and Spanish.

Chance me please

luluzg-213390 — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:46:37 GMT

-IELTS: 8.0
-I've decided not to send sat stats
-competitive IB school
-needs FA
-applying with Croatian passport (Central/Eastern Europe)
-great recommendations from a teacher and counsellor (i believe they recommend me enthusiastically, not sure about the second teacher though)
-athletic supplement (soccer captain for 2 years but my club went bankrupt - no women's soccer in my school so stop playing it at the beginning of 2009)
-good essay
-lean towards law so i guess i'd take russian, french, international relations and maybe math

my CV

IB points: 36/42 (3HL - cro, eng a2, psy 3SL-math, phy, french)
Class rank: 3 of 32

Activities Model United Nations group establisher and leader (11th - 12th grade)
Yearbook (11th - 12th grade)
European Youth Parliament (12th grade)
Croatian History (11th - 12th grade)
Latin (11th - 12th grade)
French in Alliance Fran�aise (9th - 12th grade)
Russian (beginners) (11th - 12th grade)
Community service in French kindergarten (9th - 12th grade)
Community service in home for abandoned children (9th - 12th grade)
Soccer � team captain (9th - 11th grade)
Ultimate Frisbee (11th � 12th grade)
Basketball JV (9th - 11th grade)
Handball Varsity (9th - 10th grade)
Aerobics (9th - 12th grade)
Croatian � Japanese Cultural Society (10th - 12th grade)

Projects International MUN Conference in Bosnia and Herzegovina � Security Council (2009)
National European Youth Parliament Conference � Committee on Social Affairs II (2009)
Personal Project: Muslims in Europe: Cultural assimilation in Europe
Extended Essay: Modernism in Croatian literature - �Bijeg� - M.C. Nehajev
Zagreb Pride volunteer (2009)
Bird Migration and Protection � 1st place in building bird houses (2009)

Distinctions Sophomore class president and senior class vice-president
Croatian national handball team U-16 (2007)
Soccer U-18 Team captain (2007 - 2008)
Zagreb county competition in French � 2nd place
National competition in French � 5th place

Working experience: internship job at the Fund for Compensation of Expropriated Property - 4 weeks, 40 hr/week (summer 2009)
Others: Camp California in Istria (2007)
EF Ecole Internationale de Francais - Paris (winter 2008)

Thank you

Parent Chat tonight!

icesk8mom-59153 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 13:40:14 GMT

Tonight, Thursday, November 12, Mount Holyoke Admissions will host a prospective parent chat from 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm ET . Current parents, along with College reps will be available to chat with you.

The chat link is: Chat Central :: Admission :: Mount Holyoke College

To begin, simply click on the "chat now" link when the chat room is open.