Hi everyone! I’m a junior and i will be applying for architecture programms in 2020. I would appreciate hearing from you about how i can make my application stronger. (test scores are a whole different thing in my countrys system, so please focus on the rest stats written below)
Studies:
2014-2020: Studied in a model highschool, whose name i would like not to mention, for privacy reasons, but it’s one of the few model highschools in the country and one of the best as well. (model is a school that is public but resembles private schools, functionally. Students make it to model schools, via exams, thus the overall level of the student body is quite high and there is much competition)
Graduation degrees (out of 20):
7th grade: 19, 12/14
8th grade: 19, 11,14
9th grade: 19, 9/14
10th grade: 19, 7/10
ECs:
-2018-2020: took design classes (6hrs/week) in order to prepare for my architecture school
-December 2018: presentation of a paper titled “Applications of Mathematics in Biology” at the First Student Conference on Mathematics, organized by the Hellenic Mathematical Society
-July 2018: participation in the European Student Parliament of Science (Toulouse) as a member of the six-member group of representatives of Greece
-May 2018: Participation in the 3rd Open Campus, which took place at the Athens School of Philosophy, as part of the European project DESCI (Developing and Evaluating Skills for Creativity and Innovation)
April 2018: Participation in the Hellenic Student Parliament of Science and election as representative of Greece in the European Student Science Parliament (Toulouse, 7-9 July 2018)
November 2017: Participation in a conference, organized by the Hellenic-Italian Union (Naples, 18-19 November 2017)
-2015-2018: elected three times in the five-member (8th,10th,11th grade) and two in the fifteen-member (8th,9th) council of the student body
-2014-2019: Mathematics club (5 years), Psychology club (1 year), STEM club (1 year), Chemistry club (1 year)
-2006-2017: engaging in dance
Classic Ballet (11 Years)
Contemporary dance (3 years)
Modern dance (3 years)
Traditional dance (3 years)
Honors/Awards:
-2018: 2nd Prize at Scratch International Programming Trial SCRIPT 2018
-2018: 11th place in the Panhellenic Student Chemistry Competition (approximately 1780 participants)
-2018: 2nd place in the Panhellenic Competition “Create Your Own Seismograph” (awarded at Athens Science Festival by the President of Democracy)
-2017: 2nd prize in the World Purple Comet Math Meet contest
-2016: 1st prize in the World Purple Comet Math Meet contest
-2014-2019: 5 excellence awards (an award that students with excellent gpas get annually), 2 awards for coming first in my class
-2014-2018: participation in math competitions hosted by the Hellenic Mathematical Society
5 participations in Thales (1st stage)
3 paticipations in Euclid (2nd Stage)
1 participation in Archimedes (3rd stage)
-2014: 1st place at the entrance examinations for the model highschool im attending (approximately 700 participants)
- I have been responsible for the absence book (the catalogue where the absent people are written down, for whichth every best student or the best two students of each class are hel responsible) during all years of highschool
- I have been honored multiple times to stand by the flagman of my school in national holidays' marches that are hosted twice a year, among the 6 best students of the whole school Publications:
-2018-2019: Participation in editorial and founding group of the digital magazine Addictive.gr
-2018: Inclusion of my article in Zenodo Digital Researcher Depot
-2018: Publication of my personal article entitled “School’s contribution to the prevention of earthquakes” in a scientific journal of Science View (ISBN code included)
Foreign Languages (im a native greek speaker):
-English, Level C2, Michigan’s Certificate of Proficiency in English
-German, B2 level, certified by the Goethe Institute
These are my stats so far, I plan to continue most of my ecs next year as well. As far as competitions are concerned, i did exceptionally well last year, so i hope i will do equally well this year.