Chance me HYP and Dartmouth (International Applicant)********* WILL CHANCE BACK************

Chance Me / Match Me
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Hey guys!

I am a junior who is planning on majoring in international relations and eventually going into law school later on. I want to be a diplomat or an international lawyer.

For your info, I’m an Korean international applicant who was born and raised in China and who currently attends an IB boarding school in Sedona, Arizona… Sorry in advance for the complicated background :slight_smile:

The schools I want to apply to are:

Harvard(SCEA)
Dartmouth(ED)
Princeton
Johns Hopkins
Yale
Tufts
Brown
U of Chicago
NYU
Trinity C
and other safeties

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): 2330, 790CR, 750M, 790W (one sitting)

SAT II (place score in parentheses): Chinese with listening (800), French (750), World History (770)

Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92

Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A (school doesn’t rank)

Full IB (predicted score in parentheses): HL English(7), HL World History(7), HL Music(6), SL Spanish(7), SL Math(7), SL ESS(7), TOK, Extended Essay, CAS

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing major…just academic awards from middle and high school, English proficiency award in a competition in Beijing, not a US citizen hence not qualified for the National Merit Scholarship or Nationally funded programs…

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parentheses):

Student Council (class president 3yrs)
Philomathean Debate Society(founder)
School Newspaper “The Feed” ( journalist/editor)
Christian Fellowship(initiator), Peer to Peer Tutoring (co-founder)
Free SAT prep Club( founder)
Violin in Orchestra (first chair 9yrs)
Flute instrumental ensemble( first chair 4yrs)
Jazz band “Theoretically Blind” (vocalist)
Model UN Beijing
Tennis (2yrs)
Film Production(Project period)
Slam Poetry(Project period)
Grand Canyon( outdoor program)
Canyon de Chelly (service/outdoor program)…etc

Volunteer/Community Service:

Helped raise over 10 grand for UN Millennium Development Goal Project for Malawi
Backpacks for Kids (local NGO)
Beijing Sun Village ( activities coordinator& English tutor) a home for children whose parents are incarcerated
Malawi Eyeglass Clinic
Relay for Life, Hunger Banquet …etc.

Summer Activities:

French Immersion for 2 months in Quebec City (2 years)
UN Millennium Development Project service trip to Malawi (1 month)
Arabic Language Institute in Fez for Arabic Language Immersion(1 month in Morocco alone)
SAT prep…etc

PS) I’m an ardent linguist. Just to briefly quote Nelson Mandela here, " If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

Essays/Teacher Recommendations: They’ll be good

Counselor Rec: she’s my advisor and kind of like a mom

Additional Rec: Possibly from Lee JunSuk, a young Korean politician who was chief of the online campaign for the current South Korean presidency. I’ve been trying to reach him through Facebook and other creepy means. Also a Harvard grad.

Other
Applied for Financial Aid? Need more than 70%
Projected Concentration: International Relations, Political Science
State : Arizona
Country (if international applicant): South Korea
School Type: Private/boarding
Ethnicity: Korean ( I wish I was North Korean so I could be the first North Korean student at Harvard)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: Divorced family, dad left home and never supported family, mom is retiring soon and sick…
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
Speak 7 languages ( Korean, Chinese, English, French, Spanish, and on my way to learning Arabic and Japanese)
Korean but was born and raised in Beijing,China
Went to a public Chinese middle school for 2 years
Learned French on my own since 5th grade
Possibly legacy? Dad went to Harvard for Ph.D

Harvard is my dream school.
Hope I have a chance competing with the geniuses with insane awards applying to these top schools :-*

Thank you for reading 감사합니당~~ 谢谢

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My dad left me isn’t an income bracket… Your mom’s current income bracket and dad if you’re his dependent… No one cares if she is gonna retire unless you write about it in your essay.

You dont even speak 4 languages… or you don’t have proof for it anyway. Go take the SAT tests for all of those and that is amazingly impressive… saying it means nothing and one month immersion doesn’t get you there.

Being from China is NOT a hook. Normally it is a disadvantage.

Do not get a rec from someone just because they are famous… you’re much better off getting it from someone that really knows you.

Now to the good parts… goood SAT score. Good ECs but nothing stands out. Your GPA and IB scores are stellar too!

I’m not going to give you a chance because I’m by no means an expert, but there are things you can work on and things that are currently good.

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You can’t get an additional recommendation from someone who doesn’t know you. You are much better getting one from someone who can’t write great things about you.

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I agree. Try getting a recommendation from somebody that knows you quite well (like one of your sports or club leaders) as it gives admissions a better conception of who you are. I’d definitely say you have a chance at Harvard, but it’s so selective that there’s no guarantee, especially since your an international. Congratulations on what you’ve accomplished thus far and good luck!

Chance me back?
UChicago / UCLA / JHU / UW- Madison / Rochester (WILL CHANCE BACK IF LEFT LINK!!!) is the title

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Very good chance in my opinion, but I really would not know your true chance at those schools since most are so competitive that its a blind shot for almost everyone.

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Excellent stats but you’re ECs kinda make you look like the very common (stereotyped) Asian applicant lol. You’ll most likely get into at least one of those schools. Good luck!

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Harvard(SCEA): reach
Dartmouth(ED): reach(You can’t do both ED and SCEA. Choose either one)
Princeton: reach
Johns Hopkins: reach(doesn’t meet full need. Not really worth applying I think)
Yale:reach
Tufts: reach
Brown:reach
U of Chicago :reach
NYU: low reach, and it’s not worth applying because their FA is awfu;
Trinity C: reach

What are your “other safeties”?

Except Ivy leagues, besides your stereotypical ECs(unfortunately) due to your need, all of your school choices will be hugely difficult competitions.

I hope you have some back up plans. Message me if you need help.

P.S. I am also a native Korean, and a college student