Chance me :) ?

Penny95
Sun, 12 May 2013 13:54:22 +0000

Soo I’ve already posted this in chances but I’d like to hear more opinions :)

Status : International Student .
Come from a little village in Italy . First generation college student .

Grades
Maths A
Physics A
Italian B
English A+
Latin B
Ancient Greek A
Philosophy A
History A
Biology + Chemistry A
History of Arts A+
P.E A+
Behaviour A+
We don’t have a GPA , still my grade average is around 8 ( 4.0 ) My school is the hardest in Italy ( and the second oldest , was founded in 1600 ) . It’s also one of the hardest in Europe . So for some teachers a B is like a A+ . We have pretty much a university like study program . We study up to 11 hours a day . ( my conselour will write it ) .

SAT I : N/A
SAT II : N/A , going to take Latin and Physics .

English level : C2 . Still have to take IELT’s and TOEFL .

Ec’s
( We have 3 clubs in our school and they are credit courses )
Spanish club member
Teathre club member
Short Movie club member
Started the young poet club . First person ever to have started a club in my school ( and I think in Italy ) . Half the school is part of it .
Founded a non-profit organization against bullying .
President of the school newspaper .
Writes for the local newspaper .
Founded my own student outside school newspaper .
Save the children volunteer .
Wwf volunteer ( waiting for answer )
Helping people in the hospital to recover from injures .
Volunteered at the pound .
Studied for 6 months in Australia - very hard program - .
French language certificate ( it’s just the DELF thought ) and also German .
Also I used to sky and won several medals but I was little , does that count ? And I’ve got three swimming certificates .

Summer Activies .
Went to London , Dublin and Boston to learn english . Going to study at Oxford university for two weeks .

Applying to : Cornell , obviously ;D

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