Chance/Advice a Freshman :)

arulmoonie
Mon, 28 May 2012 20:29:15 +0000

Hello

I am a freshman from Canada and I was wondering if you could just take a bit of your time to read my post and tell me if I’m going in the right direction to have a good chance in grade 11/12 if I apply to Stanford.

Course Load: Required Grade 9 courses and 1 grade 10 courses (history)
Average: First semester - 86% Second Semester (MIDTERM) - 90%

E.Cs - Debate Team, Trivia Club (in the Junior Team - (made provincials)), Student Activity Council, Other student leadership council

Sports - At 1st stage of three stages of life guarding training
Cricket club (in their rep. U-15 team)
Muay Thai, BJJ, Kickboxing

Jobs - own a business (no employees) generates 1000 dollars a month give or take a few hundred

free-lance photographer (mostly for church, family, friends)

Volunteering - 120+ hours till date
-summer camp at church

kids programs

marathons
-library

Summer: - Finishing a grade 10 course to open up a free elective next year
-Volunteering at a native reserve to help native children (1 week)

Build my photography portfolio

Volunteer as a photograper at a kids camp (1 week)

Course load for grade 10: All required grade 10 courses, grade 11 law, business

Grade 11: HL Bio, HL (Chem/Physics - not sure yet), HL pysch, IB english, french + SL/HL Math

Grade 12: IB

Future Summers: - volunteer ALOT want to do 1000 hours by end of grade 12, summer program (if finances allow), further photography and business, create a photography business, internships, world vision ambassador, international volunteering trips, start studying for SAT

Thanks alot for the help!

Just want to know if I’m in the right path and if you could comment/ give advice I know this is really early, but I just want to plan and be sure that I can do the best I can, and whether i make it in or not is not up to me from that point.