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<p>Another ILR Spec.? Then Please Chance me kk</p>

<p>Gender: Male
Country: S.Korea
School: kindda school of gifted children or something like that in Korea
GPA: Not published, but Top 20% - I wonder if my school is considered in the process.
Special Quality(?): I have ne’er been outside S.Korea</p>

<p>SAT1: CR 640 Math 800 Writing 770 (Superscored) - 2210
SAT2: Math2C 800 Japanese 700 Literature 550 (Cornell Please ignore this)
AP: Cal BC 5, Cal AB 5, Microecon 4, Macroecon 4, PhyC Mech 4, PhyC EM 3, Eng Lang and Composition 3, World His 3,
Recommendations & Essays: Quite Confident -> all themes were related to “being an entertainment company leader” which is my dream.</p>

<p>Extra Curr:</p>

<ol>
<li>Business Leadership: </li>
<li>established a publication company, and published several books</li>
<li>an alumnus of pre-mba program of Korean business school, and received Straight A’s.</li>
<li>an alumnus of Hyundai Investment program, and received A+.</li>
<li>Co-president of School Finance Club. Published one research paper on entertainment company, held business planning contest in school, and held finance education program for highschoolers. </li>
<li><p>Vice president of School Venture Business Club. Educated Entrepreneurship to peers. </p></li>
<li><p>Economic Insight: </p></li>
<li><p>I wrote AP Level Economics textbook in Korea, published nationally (covered by many media) </p></li>
<li><p>Academic Leadership:</p></li>
<li><p>Placed within top 5 teams in Internet Science and Technology Fair -> Team vice leader</p></li>
<li><p>vice leader of a province aero-science investigation team. </p></li>
<li><p>vice leader of the aero-science booth in National Youth Expo</p></li>
<li><p>Altruistic Leadership:</p></li>
<li><p>Team Leader in Glbal PeaceMakers program in Cambodia. Award for volunteer of distinction</p></li>
<li><p>Leader of Saturday Volunteers in local senior citizens’ house. </p></li>
<li><p>Consultant for School Dormitory Captain</p></li>
</ol>

<p>Finally, 5. Entertainment Leadership

  • Interned in three different entertainment agencies. Worked as an accountant, financial manager, and a reporter in the financial department.
  • certificate of accomplishment in a stylist program.
  • worked as a reporter of national hiphop music site.
  • wrote 3 articles about entertainment industry for a national newspaper.</p>

<ol>
<li>Miscellaneous awards kk</li>
</ol>

<p>Please Chance me ~</p>

542

<p>@prinstun</p>

<p>dudeee are you freaking serious…youre definitely in! youve everything going for you (:</p>

<p>why. the. heckkk. would you even ask ‘chance me?’</p>

<p>ah just post your stats and be done gawd</p>

<p>geeez i hope they didnt view my app right after yours haha</p>

543

<p>14 more days! what will you guys be doing when decisions come out! wait, is it 3 pm or 5 pm?</p>

544

<p>If they’re releasing the same as last year, it should be at 5 PM Eastern</p>

545

<p>sucks for me, i’m still gonna be in class when decisions come out. I’ll be running over to the school library to check as soon as I get out… but i’ll probably be locked out by all the other people…</p>

546

<p>I will be sitting in an award ceremony trying not to chew a hole through my face waiting to go home T_T </p>

<p>I wish there was some way for me to wake up tomorrow and have it be the tenth…</p>

547

<p>i will actually be at track practice when the results come out. I could check on my phone, but i might be saddened by the decision and be bummed out at practice. Instead, I’ll check when i get home at eight</p>

548

<p>OK I’m gonna breakdown/critique Pristun’s chance thing:</p>

<p>Business Leadership

  • how the heck does a 17 year old start a publication company and actually publish books?? Where do you get the budget, and how are you able to sign contracts n stuff when you’re 17? does S Korea have special business law for children or something?</p>

<p>economic insight

  • you wrote an AP Econ Textbook (that was published/covered by national media) yet you only got 4/4 on Micro/Macro? </p>

<p>Entertainment leadership

  • you said you worked as “an accountant, financial manager, and a reporter.” Let’s assume that you actually did hold these positions. First of all, these positions lose their credibility considering major corps never (NEVER) let a teenager look through their monetary records. I work at a medium/large sized company and the youngest financial intern is a 3rd year university student. Even if you did get those positions it’s obvious you probably didn’t do anything other than going on Facebook or carrying coffee to the CEO’s office.</p>

<p>Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong. From my point of view (a college grad and an ex-admissions office worker) this resume seems fabricated to the max. Lots of discrepancy and unrealistic achievements.</p>

549

<p>Well there are many rich korean kids
who have obssessive parents
that will pay for anything for their children’s education
as korean, ive heard many astounding stories
such as how one kid published his books through some parent’s network with some publication company, and his parents bought all of them to make it “best seller”, of course this is one of the extreme examples but
all you need is a rich parents, who have rich friends. that can do everything in korea.
not saying prinstun is one of them, but apparently he goes to school for “gifted” children.</p>

550

<p>wow Prinstun, this doesn’t look like a resume for a high school student,
cmon i mean, we’re teenagers, I know college is very important, but your resume is one of the most extreme ive ever seen in CC…</p>

551

<p>Yeah, collegedude12345, you’d be surprised. It’s likely these isn’t entirely “valid” resume, but with the extremely corrupt corporate system in place in S. Korea, it wouldn’t be impossible for this guy to pull it off if his family had the right connections.</p>

<p>a possible scenario: parents are well-connected in the wealthy corporate magnate community. They use their connections to publish books under their child’s name. The media is just as bent as corporations in Korea, so they could easily pay off the media to provide coverage for the textbooks. The articles he “wrote” for the national newspapers could likely have been written by someone else, then paid off to credit it to the student.</p>

<p>To be blunt, in Korea, if you have money and connections, you can do anything you want. If you don’t, you’re worth ****.</p>

552

<p>So are they really releasing ED results December 10? Cause that would be freakin incredible</p>

<p>Btw, I applied ED to Cornell’s College of Human Ecology, so you can add me to that list or whatever. (from Florida)</p>

<p>GPA is weird at my school…but unweighted on the 4.0 scale it would be about a 3.55</p>

<p>Math- 700
CR- 660
Writing- 720</p>

<p>Essays are incredible, so are recs (obviously I don’t know this for a fact, but I’m very confident that they are)</p>

<p>APs:
Macroeconomics- 5
Microeconomics- 4
Spanish Language (I’m hispanic)- 5
English Language- 4 (LOL)
Music Theory- 3
<em>Taking ap calc ab, ap stat, and ap physics b this year</em>
I run Cross-Country and Track (since 6th grade). Very fast, must admit and have won awards.</p>

<p>VP of Habitat for Humanity Club (member since 9th grade)</p>

<p>Piano outside of school, Band (on and off due to schedule conflicts)–Tenor Sax</p>

<p>Nobody has to “chance me,” just showing this for other peoples’ pleasure</p>

553

<p>Thank you collegedude, for your keen critiques. </p>

<p>Let me explain things you mentioned (I’m not bragging, but i’m only justifying. Sorry, if offended)
Korea has very different business law system from US. I read about Corporate Law in US so I was the one very amazed. Since Korea is much a developing country, compared to the States, our corporate law focuses on Entrepreneurs, and super-generous on teenage business. My friend does an online hand-made accessaries business and earning $$$$$$ (She is applying to Wharton, I guess) </p>

<ul>
<li><p>Can a teen do publication company in Korea?
Korea has a law that people who are having a middle school degree can establish a business, and all business does not need formal buildings. Only an application fee about $100. Thus, I only needed network to printing company, and acquaintances who are willing to publish through my company. Therefore, I put articles introducing my company in national newspapers (In Korea, advertisement fee is not that expensive; I am NOT a rich T.T)</p></li>
<li><p>Your AP Econ score does not match the fact that you wrote nationally published economics textbook.
Yeah, that’s true. A sad point. However, when I was a 9th grade, my school did not provide an AP Class, so I studied AP Econ myself. I had not studied in english speaking country, and I was young then… I just messed up the free response section, not from lack of economic knowledge, but from english. My book is written in Korean, the language I learnt Economics. I hope my collegecounselor had explained this discrepancy in her school report. </p></li>
<li><p>How much can you do as an Entertainment Accountant, Financier… in the age 17?
There is a famous private business school in Korea, and I begged the president to give me a permission to join the Pre-MBA program which was only given to college undergrad seniors. I fortunately got in, and luckily received quite good grade among the alumni. Among the alumni, there was a son of the president of an entertainment company. I asked him to intern officially in his company, and gratefully, he accepted. And his parents introduced two other companies of its kind, and I worked there too. It definitely was a serendipity.</p></li>
<li><p>Your award on Internet Science and Technology Fair does not match your AP Physics score.
Yeah. I am cursed at Physics. But in the fair, I luckily took a leadership-oriented role (vice) and the topic was more about business-related science, rather than numbers and formulas(A critique from my friend). </p></li>
</ul>

<p>Thank you so much collegedude12345.
I had a great opportunity to review and upgrade my resume for regular decision schemes. </p>

<p>Last but not least, I am sorry for the phrase “Chance me kk”. I was just first to post a stat here, and was so excited T.T Terribly sorry if I offended you; please forgive meTT</p>

<p>Sincerely,
Prinstun</p>

554

<p>Omaigoshthisdudeissuchatroll</p>

555

<p>Oh, and actually my resume here is just little better than mediocre who are willing to study (in South Korea). </p>

<p>As people above might have mentioned, they are unbelievably rich; my friend’s father is the vice president of Morgan Stanley Korea; my friend’s friend is the heir to Samsung Electronics(–;:); my brother’s friend is the son of the president of Grand Hyatt Seoul; and allegedly, my cousin’s friend’s sister is the daughter of ex-CEO of Coffee Beans(but was ex-ceo of Coffee Beans Korean? I doubt it though). </p>

<p>These superkids’ resumes are just international and state-of-art themselves; nevertheless, many of them are legacy kids of Harvard, Wharton, or Tuck (And I’m definitely NOT) boosting their chances to accumulate wealth and fame. One friend of mine was struggling to shorten his resume, and erased out unnecessary -according to his perspective - activities in his vita. You know what? The eliminated activities were “precious” ISTF award(for me, very precious), and a book(he published three so he erased most unpopular one) and so forth. You would not believe this, as I was. </p>

<p>Republic of Korea is still a developing one, and its wealth distribution is still very uneven; kids who are going to Ivy, directly from Korea, are generically(if not everyone) very rich. Their resumes are shaped by their skills + parents’ international network + opulence(You can see my resume is almost flooded by not-internationally-recognized activities). Plus, publishing a nationally-acknowledged book in S.Korea as a teen is not a freaking event; in 2009 there are 10 teenage writers who received national honor for their books. I was 11th in that list so I could not get the honor from Korean government)</p>

<p>And many of them are even good-looking in Korean standard (modern aristocracy or something…), making me very frustrated; these children always make me “just a proletariet nerd”</p>

556

<p>“Oh, and actually my resume here is just little better than mediocre who are willing to study (in South Korea).” </p>

<p>–> Oh, and actually my resume here is just little better than mediocre who are willing to study in Ivy, from South Korean standard.</p>

557

<p>wow can you stop BS ing? Im korean too and your deceptive excuses just offends me so much. how the hell is our country a “developing” one? youre talking like we are some african country that’s like 3 centuries behind. we are one of the most economically devloped country out there, thx to the corrupted governmental system that provides tons of money to corporations such as Samsung, LG, and Hyundai, complete opposite to entreprenuership-friendly policy of united states. We are developed to the maximum gap that our small piece of land allows us to be.
I have many friends in Korea that i still keep in touch with, and starting a business? you’re saying like everyone in korea does that, but in education-obssessed environment, they don’t even have time to play sports in high school. There are no such craps as clubs. all korean colleges care about is numbers and numbers and numbers. THere are many cases where kids suicide because of lack of free time and overwhelming workload. My friends litereally study from 8am to 1am on weekdays. Im not gonna get into other things i have better things to do.
but either youre exagerrating your works or completely fabricating them i dont give a crap. but dont provide false information to people who live here about korea in order to make some complete BS to make some excuses for your unbelievable resume.
I have pride as Korean, and I take this pride very seriously. I know that our government system is corrupted, but that’s not what defines Korea. We are one of the most devloped, but chances and opportunities are rare. Thats why people come to United States. You make it sound like anyone could beg the president of extremely selective and strict colleges in korea to get into their pre-mba program. You make it sound like any ordinary person can have connections to extremely wealthy people. All i need is 100 dollars to start a business? A 9th grader can publish a textbook? Wow, what a fool I am to abandon all these golden opportunites and came to United States. Maybe, you’ve done all the things you listed, but dont try to fool us saying that you’re not one of the wealthy, privileged ones who have so much opportunities than people like me because you’re only making people who came all the way to United States, looking for opportunities and chances, sound like ■■■■■■■.</p>

558

<p>Well, impressive as it looks, his CR reading score will really hurt him, so will his rank.</p>

559

<p>me thinks korea ■■■■■■■■ flame war should move to a new thread.</p>

560

<p>I completely agree with yjs1210 but lets just stop this discussion in the ‘Cornell ED’ thread.</p>