hi! i’m a rising eighth grader from China and I hope to get into Andover and a couple other good top 20 high schools!
Here are my stats:
11 A’s/11 subjects, 8 A+
Academic Competitions:
Multiple Top Speakers, Quarter/Octo/Semifinalists in Nationwide Debate Competitions, 2 Champions and 2 Runners-Up
World Scholar’s Cup Global Round: 9th Overall Junior Scholar, Gold in Debate and Writing, 6 Gold Medals in 6 Subjects. School Top Scorer Overall.
John Locke Essay Comp: Shortlisted in Junior Category
United States Academic Pentathlon, China National Round: Bronze overall, Gold in humanities, Bronze in math/science
Joining overseas debate tournaments in eighth grade.
EC’s:
Art, starting art competitions this year
World Scholar’s Cup Extracurricular Class: Teaching Assistant/Assistant Coach, starting 9/22, will be writing resource packets and organizing mock debates/writing prompts. (its a pretty popular ec my school offers)
Debate Team; I write evidence packets for team members and I might? judge mock debate rounds.
Middle School Mentorship Program
Started a Bloxburg building business (probably has no substance but im very proud of it :p)
Badminton, squash, soccer, all recreational.
Standardized Test Scores:
SSAT: Not taken yet.
TOEFL: 110 first time without any prep, sadly the average score for chinese applicants is like 118.
yes i did post before, but it didn’t gain a lot of traction and i hope to gain more insight on applying to top schools!