My Chances at Middlebury?

piratemonkey
Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:44:36 +0000

I’m a Canadian/Czech citizen living in the Czech Republic for the last fourteen years, attending an international school and taking the IB diploma program [I’m a junior]. Our school is really rigorous and there’s none of that grade fluffing stuff. I think there’s like one or two people with a 4.0 GPA - the rest are below.

9thth Grade: GPA 3.6 [blah - does it matter that much since it was early in high school?]

10th Grade: GPA 3.8

11th Grade:

IB Higher Level 20th Century History A+

IB Higher Level English A

IB Higher Level Theatre Arts A+

IB Math Studies II B+ [89% but it should go up]

IB Biology A-

IB German 4/5 B+

GPA 3.8

This is a grade in progress I’m looking for straight A’s or at least moving one of my two B+'s up to an A-/A by the end of the year which I think is attainable if I work my butt off.

Main EC’S + Service

piano [my tenth year]

Varsity Girls Soccer (probably captain next year)

acted in most of the school plays - large roles.

MUN in St. Petersburg, Russia

Czech lessons

Habitat for Humanity Poland, about 30 hours

I worked with a Czech human rights foundation last year

currently planning a career fair for our high school

I haven’t taken the SAT’s yet, but here are my PSAT scores:

Verbal: 78
Math: 54 [I know, absolutely terrible but I’m studying crazy hard to get up to a minimum of 650 and ideally a 700]
Writing: 61 [I’m not sure why this was so low but it should be able to get it up]

Recommendations: should be excellent
Essay: I will make sure it’s nothing less than excellent

Other Schools I’m considering:
Brown
Amherst
Bowdoin
Colby
Bates
McGill
Queens