apps already in, but still curious

gadli
Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:42:57 +0000

Schools:
Wharton
Yale
Princeton
Harvard
Brown
Dartmouth
Duke
Georgetown
UVA
WashU
NYU-Stern
Williams

Demographics: Asian male, upper-middle class, from Northern NJ

School: extremely competitive boarding school
GPA: 88-89 (92 is highest). School does not rank.

12th grade classes:
AP Calculus AB
AP Stats
English IV
Spanish IV
Honors Economics
Chorus II: Advanced

SATs:
720 (CR), 780 (Math), 780 (Writing), 2280 total
740 Math 2
770 Chinese w/ Listening
720 Biology E

EC’s:
Editor-in-Chief of school newspaper (first Asian editor-in-chief in school history)
Founder and president of China Care Club (we raise money for Chinese abandoned children and their families)
Head of all-male a Capella group
Three terms of after-school community service during freshman, sophomore, and junior years (around 150 hrs in total, I would estimate)
Violin (Western Mass. district orchestra)
Piano (8th grade certification from Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music)

Other stuff:
I am certified to attend college in China because of test that was developed by a board of Chinese universities called the HSK (essentially the Chinese Proficiency Exam)
Was a Purchasing Dept. Intern for a company this July-August

Thanks again!

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