<p>Only because I’m kind of paranoid about my US chances right now…</p>
<p>Location: Hong Kong
UK citizen
Female, Chinese</p>
<p>SAT: V750 M710 W710
SAT II: Literature 730, Maths II 680, E Biology 670
GPA: school does not calculate</p>
<p>Applied to: Brown, Columbia, Berkeley, UCLA (don’t kill me!), Pomona, CMC</p>
<p>Major: International Relations/History</p>
<p>GCSEs: 6 A*s, 4 As
Predicted A Levels: AAB</p>
<p>Extra curriculars:</p>
<p>Karate Club; Student organiser 12th grade (3 years)
School Orchestra; Principal clarinet and 2nd violin (6 years)
Concert band, - 1st clarinet and contrabass clarinet (4 years)
Orchestra - 2nd clarinet (2 years)
Club tennis team
Judo (about 2 years until I got too big for the class at age 12)
School B Grade swim team</p>
<p>Student Leader - school trip to Kenya
Committee member/General secretary of School Music Association</p>
<p>Teaching assistant in IELTS Speaking workshop for university students
Walked 25km to raise money for autistic children.
May-June 2006, helped local school students practice spoken English for external exam.
Thailand, November 2006. Helped build nursery for local orphanage.
First Aid - Qualified November 2006</p>
<p>Awards
English and Music awards from school
Comm service awards
Music qualifications
Martial arts qualifications</p>
<p>Other:
July 2003 - Attended French language program in France. 2 weeks.
August 2004 - Tour to Korea, with band
July 2005 - college-level enrichment courses at Cal. Received transcript (A and high pass)
July 2006 - Band competition in Austria, 6th place</p>
<p>Hook: uh, music? karate?</p>
<p>Essay: nothing overly unique unfortunately - wrote about how practicing karate shaped me as a person…very tongue-in-cheek in terms of style and included a transcript from my first lesson</p>
<p>Recs: excellent =D</p>
<p>so yeah…help me out?</p>