Internation Student Chances?!?! *pre-med*

crunchy.cube
Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:14:41 +0000

Grade: about to be a Senior
Ethnicity: Asian (but I’m born and raised in Canada)
Gender: Female

SAT: I took it twice
1st time: CR 680 Math 680 Writing 590
2nd time: CR 650 Math 690 Writing 610

School Type: Public, VERY rarely does anyone get into any top or even close to top schools. OH! BTW: No AP’s are taught at my school. And the only honours course is math honours, which I have been in since ninth grade.

School Marks:
Note: At my school 86% and above is an A, and teachers don’t have much of an incentive to boost marks above that.
In grade 9 and 10: mostly marks around 87 or 88%. One 85% in Science 10
In grade 11: around 92% I think.
Do I count my GPA based on marks above 90% or marks above 86%? Do I count starting grade 9 or do a GPA for each year? :

Senior Workload:
Biology 12, Chemistry 12, French 12, English 12, Math Honours 12, Calculus 12, Planning 12 (mandatory career planning course), yearbook (i’ll be a leader) and a information technology class focussing on teamwork and possibly Band 12 (I have already taken physics 12)

*By the info tech class: i’m talking about class is all about Organization, in addition to Creative Thinking, Hard Work, and Communication, not to mention three $5,000 deadlines. It is an exclusive class, and people must be invited to join.

EC and Awards: listed in random order
• Volunteer at a church run club (dedicated to teaching kids about God etc.) since my freshman year
• Tennis Team: Sophmore and Junior year (no team in previous 2 years because of lack of interest and bad weather)
• Co-coach of the senior tennis team in my Junior year
• Competitive Cheerleading team: from freshman year (spring) until summer before junior. Then from April of my Junior year until present (it runs through the summer)
• Passed my Trinity College Drama Exam(grade8)
• On the Yearbook team in my junior year
• Secretary of a multiculturalism club (for coming senior year) and member of that same club in my junior year
• Flute since grade 5. Was in summer band camp for 2 years
• Chinese School (stopped January this year). MAY possibly rejoin in September

What SAT II’s should I take?!?! (not trying to sound whiny, but time is limited and I feel a bit screwed over…)

I have finished physics 12 and got 88% in it – My mark dropped because of the Electromagnetism unit, though I do well in Mechanics. And I know nothing about Heat, Kinetic Theory and Thermodynamics (which is 6-11% of the test?).

My Chinese is VERY poor for an Asian… (bit out of practice with my mandarin) but should i take it anyways?

I don’t know any calculus, but perhaps Math level I??

I have been taking French since grade 5 but anything before grade 9 was a joke, and being in a Semester system, I have not taken French for a few months…

0.o

Colleges I want to apply to… (assuming average SATII’s - i’ll study hard at whatever you guys recommend!)
Georgetown
NYU
UC’s - Davis, Berkley, SD, LA, SF?
UW
U of Florida
Wesleyan
Knox?

I shouldn’t even consider Brown and Johns Hopkins should I? -_-

But yah. What SATII’s should I take? And do I have a shot at these colleges or aim lower? if so, what colleges do you recommend?

THANKS SO MUCH! XD