<p>I’m going to apply ED and am planning to major in either cognitive neuro, chem, molecular bio, or psychology.</p>
<p>I go to IB school, take full diploma, my HL are Eng A1 Chem and Bio. Also I take non-IB class for French.
My grades for 1st 2nd and 3rd trimester were: 777665, 777766&A+ for French, 666664 & A+ for French.
My grade dropped due to family issue, mainly.
Those grades are result of hard work, though, because in 4.0 scale, my gpa for 9th and 10th grade had been around 2.8 - 3.0 apr.</p>
<p>I’m an international Asian - S. Korean born and lived in Japan, and I speak Eng. Jap. and Kor.</p>
<p>My ECs are:
Singing - started since young, and won 1st round for both Sony Music Japan and SM Entertainment (Korea)'s auditions during Middleschool.</p>
<p>Art - painting; started since young, and some of the works had been displayed at school or local art museum and published on a school magazine.</p>
<p>Community services - China and Bali camps, each for 1 week and 60-80 hrs of teaching kids languages, donating books, and cleaning the polluted area.</p>
<p>Religious - volunteer (cleaning up) 1 hr/week, member of teen&adolescents’ gospel group/ solo on Fridays and Sundays, 5 hr/week.</p>
<p>Volunteer - translated patient profile document for a family clinic from Jap to Eng for there were many forein patients who don’t speak English, once.</p>
<p>School spirit - designed T-shirt for sports day, perform (sing) in recitals/charity concerts/school festivals, 4yrs.</p>
<p>Career oriented - visit rehab center once a week to observe and learn the role of doctors and how to communicate with patients.</p>
<p>Foreign Language - take French lessons, 3hrs/week for 2 yrs, used to take Chinese lessons 1hr/week for a trimester; quit because my teacher left school.</p>
<p>Drama/theatre - I was one of the sub-main characters in the musical performed at school.</p>
<p>Science - attended presentation (environmental science) at Osaka University twice, 10 hrs in total.</p>
<p>I really want to go to Brown because Brown will give me the BEST opportunity to find out who I am and form my identity in depth because no other school will let me to learn whatever I want to learn. That’s the most important factor for me because I’d always wished to learn stuff in many different areas such as Physics, Fashion Design, Psychology, Women’s rights, Sexuality, Econ, Business, Neuroscience, Greek studies, German language, etc, but was never able to for the reasons being that the schools I attended offered few courses and the pressure to get a decent grades, when education really mustn’t be about how it’ll appear on papers but what you learn according to your area of interest.
I’m worried because I’m not brilliant at writing that my passion might not really appear on the essays and looooaaaaads of other American/international S.Korean kids ROCK academically and get 2300’s on SATs.</p>
<p>Ahhh… and if there’s any recommendations on which schools I might want to apply and will have a good chance, please let me know. </p>
<p>Oh, and should I better include art supplement (painting and singing) or it doesn’t matter if I’m not applying to Art department?</p>
<p>Thx. <3</p>