<p>I’m in grade 11. Want to major in Applied Science. </p>
<p>SAT (another try in May)
CR 640
M 780
W 690</p>
<p>Grade: 93% (4.6 GPA)</p>
<p>EC: School Concert Band, play clarinet, compete in major HS competitions in Toronto, will go to Boston for another competition later this year.</p>
<pre><code> Robotic Club, VEX team, compete in VEX Rebotics competiton, will get to the US for competition if we get past the first round
Basketball Team, 6"2, Shooting Guard/Small Forward, we have a really good team this year so we may go far. Hope to play for whatever univerisity i go to.
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<p>some volunteering at library and senior center (for my volunteer hours, nothing special)</p>
<p>Univerisities (only great ones or else i’ll stay in Canada)
Ivey Leagues- Harvard, Yale, Darthouth:
Northwestern:
Duke:
Chicago
Statfrod:</p>
<p>im am also a chinese candian ( newfoundland) and in a nearly identical situation to you
SAT 1: cr 640, math-800, writing 650
93.5% avg.</p>
<p>your basketball, robotics and music participation are all great for your application, but your volunteering seems weaker, try going to the hospital or retirement homes( this will also be excellemt to include in any application essays)
The fact that you are student council president speaks volume about your leadership.</p>
<p>However considering the number of elite students applying to the schools you listed, it might be more reasonable to apply to a lower-tier school</p>
<p>The schools im applying to are: cornell, rice, usc, vanderbilt, hopkins, brandeis, nyu, emory, notre dame, northwestern, and chicago</p>
<p>out of the schools you listed you probably have the best chance at chicago and northwestern… you should also apply to cornell because it’s just as good as dartmouth but easier to get into</p>
<p>Yes I do do other Latin ECs - I was president of the Latin Club, for instance - but there was no significant time put into it. Everyone in the club just wanted to go to Busch Gardens (an amusement park) and do pretty much nothing else.</p>
<p>“The rest of your EC are really boring.”
I’m sorry I don’t play basketball. I guess you think your clarinet-playing is boring (since my piano-playing is boring)?</p>
<p>Yeah… I didn’t study for math at all. I just glanced over some strategies the night before and it helped a lot on the other sections but unfortunately not the math one. It would have definitely helped to study haha. It’s not like I’m bad at math - I’m getting an A in BC Calculus…</p>
<p>As for the GPA, I’m unfortunately relying on the fact that freshman year doesn’t count for certain colleges. Sad, I know Oh, and please note that our grading scales are very different, so, for instance, a 5.0 at my school doesn’t just mean I would have to get all A+'s - it means I would have to take 7 AP classes each year of high school and get A+'s in all of them, every semester. That’s impossible and ridiculous. 4.2ish is like an A+ average here.</p>
<p>Your SAT scores are somewhat weak (except in math), but then again you are a junior. Your ECs are pretty strong, especially with the fact that you’ve succeeded at some high-level competitions. Then again, you might not make it past the first round in your robotics competition. Your basketball skills certainly are a plus, though. The student council president position might or might not be significant, depending on what you do with it. Colleges are looking for passion and commitment to one or a few ECs, not a whole range of them.</p>
<p>It’s a bit premature to say because it’s your junior year, but:
Harvard: Reach
Yale: Reach
Dartmouth: Low Reach
Northwestern: Low Reach/High Match
Duke: Reach
Chicago: Low-Mid Reach
Stanford: Reach</p>
<p>I might be missing the fact that your ECs are really strong or that your UW grades are higher than you’re depicting them to be. Plus, once you get your test scores up you’ll be more competitive.</p>
<p>“Can you tell me what’s the difference between W GPA and UW GPA? In Canada, we need percentage. According to a conversion table, 93 is like 4.6. Is that W GPA? or not?”</p>
<p>That is definitely weighted GPA. UW is out of 4.0. Go to a conversion chart - I don’t know where exactly - but it’s something like 100% is 4.0, 90% is 3.5, etc. There are gradations in between, so 92% would be a 3.6. My UW without freshman year is somewhere around 3.7. Usually people estimate UW wrong and end up putting themselves much closer to a 4.0 than they actually are. My guess is that a high GPA is around a 3.8 or so (96%), with a lot of AP classes. Without a rigorous schedule/transcript, then a high GPA is kind of worthless. Getting 100% in Basket Weaving looks worse than getting an 85% or even 80% in an AP class. Thus the stupidity of UW GPA.</p>
Oh, and please note that our grading scales are very different, so, for instance, a 5.0 at my school doesn’t just mean I would have to get all A+'s - it means I would have to take 7 AP classes each year of high school and get A+'s in all of them, every semester. That’s impossible and ridiculous. 4.2ish is like an A+ average here.</p>