Chance an international please :)

TomBor
Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:26:15 +0000

Stanford (dream school), UCB, UCLA, Harvard, Princeton, Caltech, Carnegie, Upenn, Brown

Gender: Male
Nationality/Ethnicity: White, Israeli (Jewish), lived in Thailand for the last 6 years
1st Gen. College
Financial Aid: No
Grade: 12
Intended Field: Physics/Engineering + Minor in Business/Economics

IGCSE Grades:
-Extended Maths - A (took a year early)
-Additional Maths - B (took as an extra course for the 2nd year instead of the already-finished Extended Maths)
-English Literature - A
-English Language - A
-Double Award Science - AA
-Business Studies - A*
-Geography - A*
-Information Computer Technology - A
-Design & Technology - A*

My school does IB - I take the hardest course possible:
HL Physics - Predicted 7/7
HL Maths - Predicted 7/7
HL Chemistry - Predicted 7/7
SL Business & Management - Predicted 7/7
SL English A1 - Predicted 6/7
SL Spanish Ab Initio - Predicted 7/7
Extended Essay - Predcted A
Theory of Knowledge - Predicted A
Total IB Predicted: 44/45 (very hard to get)

Not sure if my school ranks, but I am the top of my year/class/school. (highest predicted grades and best recs)

SATI:
Superscore: 2170
Math - 700
CR - 700
WR - 770

SATII:
intend to take in Dec and Jan
Physics and MathII. Hopefully 700+ on both in Dec and maybe even better in Jan.

Recs - Great (+got 2 recs from one of the most renown doctors in Israel and a minister in the government of Israel who studies at Stanford)
Essays - Hopefully Great :)

ECs:

LEADERSHIP
-Initiator and Leader of the local Amnesty International (human rights) Club: 9, 10, 11, 12.
-Prefect of School. In charge of all leadership aspects of school: 12th grade (only available final year)
-Interact Rotary Service Club - Club Committee Chairperson, Secretary
-Member of the Student Guild/Body: 9, 10
-Green House Captain: 11 (you can only hold this position for a year, I’d do it for longer)
-Round Square Conference Delegate (twice): Regional Conference Singapore (9th grade), International Conference Canada (11th grade)

SERVICE:
-Over 300 hours
-Amnesty International: I initiated the ‘Educate the Slums’ project - we took in a group of underprivileged Thai children from the slums, built them a school and taught them English.
-Interact Rotary: I initiated the ‘Plastic Bottle Project’ - raising money through recycling, then donating to the ‘Baan Jing Jai orphanage’, where I also volunteered as a painter to repaint the building.
-Mercy Centre Orphanage: garden work
-Clean Up The World: around 20-30 hours of cleaning beaches and forests

CREATIVE/SPORT:
-School play (every year - 9th, 10th, 11th - not 12th, but also during 7th and 8th grades)
-Learn and play guitar - 4 years
-Learn and play piano - 5 years
-Member of the ‘Burapha Golf’ Tennis Club - 4 years
-Been to Stanford for a computer programming summer camp. It wasn’t Stanford initiative, just took place in Stanford. 4 weeks on campus.

WORK EXPERIENCE (paid):
-I have my own web design company which I operate with my friends via the internet. We cater mostly to local business in the city where I live at the moment (in Thailand.)
-Adobe FLASH tutor - tutoring primary-middle school kids (web design, animation, game design)
-Don’t know if you’d call this exactly work experience, but I tutor middle-school kids for the IGCSE Double Award Science exams

AWARDS:
-International/Duke of Edinburgh Award - Silver
-First in Chemistry in my school 11th grade
-First in Physics in my school 11th grade
-Second in Math in my school 11th grade
-First in Spanish in my school 11th grade
-Diligence for Business 11th grade
-Academic Excellence Award 11th grade (only 1 of those :P)
-English Department Award - 10th grade
-Round Square Student Award (Environmentalism, Internationalism, Service, Leadership)
(and I won loads in previous years, basically they’re mostly the same every year. When I did Drama before grade 9, I used to get that one too lol)

I think that’s about all the details you need.
I’ll add if I forgot something :)

If you’ve got any recommendations for other colleges I should apply for, that’d be great too.

Thanks