<p>Nationality: British
School: In the top 20 in the country (including private schools); selective grammar school, but state-funded.
GPA: We don’t have one, but I’m predicted AAAA-AAAB for my AS-levels and AAA for my A-levels (A-levels earn college credits in the US, the same as AP classes)
Rank: Don’t have one, school doesn’t rank
SAT: Haven’t taken it yet; expecting at least 2200 from the practice tests I’ve taken; registered for October 10th testing date
SAT II: Taking Literature, French and World History; expecting around 700 on each</p>
<p>ECs:</p>
<p>First a note to say that school clubs are limited for me and the school does not generally organise teams for competitions outside of sports; I never see advertising for any such competitions. There are also no “club presidents” or “club secretaries”.</p>
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<li>Debating for 3 years, representing the school at a number of competitions. Part of an 8-man team representing the school at the Paris IV tournament, where we were the only secondary school competing against all-university students.</li>
<li>Made a first-batch school prefect in December; promoted to the position of Senior Prefect in March. In June I was assigned as the senior Tutor Group Prefect in charge of looking after Year 7s as they become Year 8s.</li>
<li>Co-founder of the school’s Peer Support Group, a team of sixth-formers who provide counselling to young pupils on issues they might not be able to discuss with a teacher like bullying. This group has won two different grants of £500 each for its work in nationally-recognised competitions - one came from the local government, another came from the Vodafone Foundation. At the beginning of the next academic year we will be undergoing training, paid for through this grant, to provide a better counselling service.</li>
<li>Part of a small team in charge of ensuring Year 7s and 8s complete their homework and running a weekly after-school session to help them do it.</li>
<li>Chosen as part of a three-man group to represent the interests of the entire student body in negotiating with the local supermarket which had imposed unfair restrictions on school children. We were successful in having the policy overturned after a co-ordinated media campaign involving a number of local and regional newspapers.</li>
<li>An active member of my local Amnesty International group, involved in demonstrations and educating the public about human rights violations.</li>
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<p>Chosen Schools:
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Dartmouth
Brown</p>
<p>I’ve been told that I would be a perfect fit for Oxbridge by my Politics teacher, and encouraged to apply to Oxford, Cambridge and Durham by my school’s uni counsellor. Unfortunately, neither Oxford nor Cambridge do the course I want to do, so I’m looking to American colleges.</p>
<p>Intended major: Government, concentrating in international relations.</p>
<p>I figured I might get diversity points, since the vast majority of the 300 or so British students applying to Harvard come from private schools and I’m coming from a state school.</p>
<p>Do I have any chance of getting into the above schools? Or is applying just a waste of $370?</p>