Any chances for Economics?

JebarPolsky
Sun, 16 May 2010 10:19:24 +0000

Stats:[ul][]SAT: 740 Math (770 Super-score), 800 Writing, 730 Reading - 2270 (2300 Superscore)[]SAT II: 800 Math II, 800 Physics[]GPA: School does not give GPA, but 4.0UW, 4.9W[]Rank: School does not rank, but 1-2/200[]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): 44/45 for IB Diploma - Full Candidate[/ul]Subjective[ul][]Essays: Excellent[]Recs: Excellent[]Supplementary Material: Abstract - Economics Extended Essay[]Summer Activities: taught ESL (Second Language English) to class of 10 students - 8 weeks/400 hours at prestigious Internship - Breakthrough Collaborative/Summerbridge[]Hook: None[/ul]Personal[ul][]Location: Hong Kong[]High School Type: Private - International[]Ethnicity: Indian[]Gender:Male[/ul]Extracurriculars[ul][]Founder/President of Revision Club (11,12) - Head of Class said that it was the first time she had seen initiative of this sort in all her years at the school, but I’m not getting a recommendation from her[]Founder/President of Guitar Club (11,12) - The most popular student founded/led club at the school with over 30 students signing up within a day[]Varsity Golf (11,12) - Represented school in golf tournaments after playing for only 3 months - been playing for 2 years now - ESSAY TOPIC[]Started a proper business (11,12) - In charge of all Economic/Business decisions[]Organizer/Leader of group project - building a small scale cloud chamber, writing research on muon decay and cosmic ray collisions[]Organizer/Leader of group project - building a small scale particle accelerator[]700 hours of community service over one year (11) - possibly continue till I get a 1000 hours (11,12)[]Group leader of 6 - school trip to rural China to teach 10 year olds English for a week - they have never had contact with the language[]Work with tutor class annually to earn about 1500 USD (annually) (6,7,8,9,10,11,12)[/ul]Awards:[ul][]UKMT Gold Medal (8,9,10) - Teacher screwed up in 11 or I would have got gold again - International Award[]UK Junior Olympiad (8) - Grade 8 too early to write on application? - International Award/Distinction[]AMC12 (11,12) - 87 marks (particularly hard paper) - 89 was cut off for AIME - International Award/Distinction; 4th in school - School Distinction[]Sunlife Maths Scholarship Competition (11,12) - 1 mark off distinction/top 25% - International Distinction[]Euclid Scholarship Maths Scholarship Competition (11,12) - Distinction - 2 marks off International Honor Roll and mention on official website (top 2%) - International Award/Distinction[]Elected Student Council Representative (9,10,12)[]Economics Commendation (10) - School Award[]Media Studies Commendation (10) - School Award[]Merit Level Certificate of Achievement - International Citizenship (9,10) [SCHOOL][]Spanish Award for Excellence (11) - School Award[]Physics Award for Excellence (11) - School Award[li]Economics Award for Excellence (11) - School Award[/ul][/li]I am applying to Cornell RD.

Just of note: I am taking part in a virtual stock exchange game with 100s of students around Hong Kong and am currently in the top 3. Even if I come in the top 20 I will win a award for representing my school, and if I come in the top 5 I will win an individual award. Furthermore, I will be doing a similar kind of competition, but in school only, and will most probably win that. How will these affect my chances?