<p>International student
Wanting to major in engineering</p>
<p>GPA: 95~99 ish
Rank: 1/100 ish</p>
<p>SAT I: 2260 (R 710; M 800; W 750)
SAT II: Math2c 800; Physics 800; Chem to be written in Jan (expecting 800)</p>
<p>Extracurriculars put on the apps </p>
<li>NABIS Youth Organization - Vice-President Operations and Finance</li>
<li>School/Church Basketball - Co-Captain; All-star</li>
<li>CBS Youth Committee - Vice-President Operations</li>
<li>Science Olympics / Math Club - Team Captain; Club President</li>
<li>Sanofi-Aventis Biotech Research - Research Team Leader</li>
<li>Grad Council - Treasurer</li>
<li>School Orchestra - 1st Trumpet</li>
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<p>Awards
Honors with Distinction - Grade 7 ~ 11
Highest Academic Honours - Grade 11
Highest Subject Achievement Awards - Students with the highest mark in each subject in their grade receives these awards
Grade 11
Art 20, Chemistry 20B, Mathematics 30B, Physics 20B, Social Studies 20B
Grade 10
Biology 15B, Chemistry 25B, French 20B, Mathematics 20B, Science 10B</p>
<ul>
<li>Mathematics Competitions</li>
<li>Alberta High School Mathematics Competition Part I - Top 50 in Alberta</li>
<li>Alberta High School Mathematics Competition Part II - 13th in Alberta (book prize)</li>
<li>AMC 12B - score: 113.5</li>
<li>AIME - score: 5</li>
<li>2004 Edmonton Junior High Math Competition Invitational - 2nd place in Edmonton</li>
<li><p>2004 International Kumon Mathematics Challenge - Top 10 in North America</p></li>
<li><p>Science Competition</p></li>
<li><p>2006 APEGGA Science Olympics - 1 gold</p></li>
<li><p>2005 APEGGA Science Olympics - 2nd in Edmonton (1 gold, 1 silver)</p></li>
<li><p>2004 APEGGA Science Olympics - 2nd in Edmonton (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)</p></li>
<li><p>National Michael Smith Science Challenge - 1st in Alberta</p></li>
<li><p>Other Awards
Grade 11</p></li>
<li><p>School Service Award</p></li>
<li><p>2006 Maurauders Basketball Tournament - Team’s Most Valuable Player </p></li>
<li><p>2005~2006 Varsity Basketball Team - Most Improved Player Award</p></li>
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<p>Grade 9
School Wellness Award - one student per grade, voted by peers</p>
<p>Pretty good essays, I guess I can pm ppl my common app essay if they want to read it to judge my chances.</p>
<p>looks fairly solid. decent scores. good rank. decent ecs. Your amc score is pretty low which makes me doubt how competitive the math scene in alberta is. I’m also fairly sure alberta is a fairly deserted province so… yeah</p>
<p>You’ll make it to cornell probably and maybe one of the others. That’s my guess.</p>
<p>Can I see your common app? I’m done applying. Just feel like reading to compare with my own.</p>
<p>lollll Alberta is not a deserted province…it’s got two major cities and a bunch of medium-size ones, plus some uber-popular vacation destinations!</p>
<p>Sanofi-Aventis Biotech Research - Research Team Leader, is this something u started on ur own, outside of school? if so that sa great exc : ). Look your stats are great, gpa sat and exc but doode, ur applying to the cream of the crop for schools. There are ppl with ur gpa and 2400’s (few of my friends had 4.0 and 2400’s and got rejected by cal tech and MIT). </p>
<p>International applicants are usually held to a much higher standard than domestic students. This is especially the case with international applicants who also need financial assisstance.</p>
<p>As an engineer however, race and gender will play a major role in admissions, would you mind providing this information?</p>
<p>MIT is need blind for all students (including international students), so the amount of money you need (or even the fact that you need money) will not affect your admission.</p>
<p>That being said, there is a quota on admissions for international students, currently at about 5% of all international applications. This means that it’s more than twice as competitive for international students.</p>
<p>yah Harvard, princeton, yale, cornell and MIT are need-blind for Canadians so it wont affect your admission decision. As for Stanford, they aren’t - which sucks. And I dont know about CalTech.</p>
<p>Coolness_rookie - your plans are like the exact same as mine. I am also Canadian (from BC though) and I applied to the same schools you did - minus Caltech - and my fallbak school is U of T. Crazy</p>
<p>you beat the avearges at most of those schools, you got great EC too. I don’t see any reason why you can’t get in more than half of those you listed.</p>
<p>anth_03,
haha that’s awesome. yeah I think a lot of Canadians plan to fall back on U of T if all fails (that’s what my friends are doing too :P). But hopefully, we’ll get in somewhere =)</p>
<p>chaoses,
getting into half of the schools i listed would be a dream-come-true…lol
But I think I have come to realize that colleges don’t define my life, so I am not gonna kill myself if I get rejected by all. haha =P I think that’s a healthy mindset to have =)</p>
<p>anyways. more comments/predictions would be appreciated.</p>
<p>that’s a good mindset to have. expect that the worst can happen, but hope for the best! i was seriously thinking of suiciding and calculating ways and results of it and all when i couldn’t get into JH, but then I realized that’s really stupid. Girls in this world need me, so I stopped lol. Second choice is great too!</p>
<p>In my essays, I tried to show different sides of me. For my common app essay, I talked about my feelings in classes, while dancing for a talent show, and in a basketball game. People thought this was my best essay.</p>
<p>In supplementary essays, I talked about my emotion when my friend who used to stay at our house went back to Korea.</p>
<p>I know that my EC’s aren’t very impressive, so I’m hoping my essays will help me. =P</p>
<p>Oh yeah. also in the additional information part, I explained what I do for each activity rather than listing all other activities I do.</p>
<p>some more relatively major things that I forgot to mention.</p>
<p>1) I’ve been tutoring for last three years, about 5 hours per week.
2) in the summer, I participated in a provincial biomedical research program for 6 weeks (40 hrs/week)</p>
