Chance an International Student

jazzdancer2102
Sun, 11 Jan 2015 16:03:47 +0000

Chance me pleeeaasee? I’m really nervous. Schools: NYU Gallatin, Brown, Barnard, Pitzer, UMich, UVa, Haverford, USC, UCB, UCLA.

International Student in India

School curriculum: IB

Ethnicity: Indian

School: Private international, ranking in top 10 IB day schools of India.

GPA: Roughly 3.9-4.0 (my school does not calculate it)
SAT: 2190 superscore
CR 710 M 740 W 740
SAT II - 710 M2 720 Spanish Reading
International so TOEFL: 119
30 Reading 30 Writing 30 Listening 29 Speaking

9 and 10 IGCSE Courseload and final grade:

English Lang - A*
English Lit- A*
Physics Extended- A*
Chemistry Extended- A*
Math Extended- A
Spanish Extended- A*
Economics- A*
History- A*
Information and Communication Technology- A

IB Courseload:

English HL
Economics HL
Physics HL
Math SL
Spanish B SL
Theatre SL
TOK

Predicted: Don’t know. But can be between 39-40/42

Awards:

Highest academic achiever in grades 9 and 10

Winner of TOEFL India Learners Awards- top 10 from all students in India receive a grant of $7000. More than a 1000 apply.

Outstanding in community service

Outstanding in English HL
Come from a non-competitive school. Otherwise, winner of national level spell bees twice, speech competition in 2010.

Community service: +200 hrs
Volunteer at:

Operation Smile

Dam project in India for displaced victims

Habitat for Humanity

Dance and theatre teacher for underprivileged

Founder of arts non profit The Dream Project and Foundation and started a legacy of theatre festivals in my school

Independent organizer of cancer seminars

ECs:

Light and theatre set design - worked on Asia’s first production of Sunshine on Leith

Marathon running

Dance: Dancer on scholarship, train more than 10 hours a week in jazz, ballet, contemporary and Bollywood

Pianist, Keyboard and Tabla player

Mandarin, Italian and Arabic self-study

Zumba: I’m one of India’s youngest instructors

Co-founder and editor of my school’s magazine

Member of Relay For Life organizing committee

Head of Registrations for TEDxYouth@OIS

Blogging on TheDesiBallerina

Varsity badminton and basketball player

Chair of Human Rights Commission and ECOSOC at MUNs including HMUN

Leadership role

Founder of Dream Project - school’s first ever charitable theatre festival where I directed and supervised 6 plays and raised 100,000 rupees

Zumba classes

Self initiated runner

TEDx

Internships:

Digital Media Associate with The Indian Economist

Social media manager with V Designs, India’s first vegan firm

Overseas internship with Sudar Global FZE in Middle Eastern trade, did a lot of writing

Essays: CommonApp was very personal. Related it to being a superhero in my own way with my fascination with quantum physics and a very personal incident in my life.

Recs: Waived FERPA. But every recommender of mine knows me extremely well. The one from my dance teacher was apparently phenomenal.