Hi! I hope whoever is reading this has an amazing day. I am looking to apply to UK and US boarding schools for ninth grade fall (year 10) , so please do chance me and any advice for my application (essays, studying strats etc) will be appreciated. For background I am an international student studying in Singapore fluent in Japanese and English.
In school stats
Grades: The grades I will submit sixth, seventh and eighth. For grade six I received A- for 4 standards and the rest were all As (there are about 4-8 standards under one class). For grade seven I received all As which is the highest grade you can get. My predicted grades for grade eight are all As.
Clubs and leadership positions (in school)
Student technology club (director) - meeting to discuss and learn about technology and coding. This club is a volunteer based one so we use what we learned to teach other people in need (outside of school).
Robotics club - create robots in groups and attend competitions.
School drama production (crew director) - manage, buy and create props that will be used. As director I also need to manage money, individual roles etc.
Japanese book club - discuss and read Japanese books while learning about literature and poems.
Book club (founder) - I founded a book club that brings together students of same book taste or different to read together and discuss topics. I worked a long time for this including curating a book selection, designing meetings etc.
Sports:
Track and field
Basketball - team placed 3rd in league
Volunteer (outside of school)
I founded my own philanthropic organization during summer that raises money and awareness to refugees and war by making handmade flowers and selling them at fairs around Singapore. I also curated posts on Instagram for an account dedicated to this. We raised over 250 Singaporean dollars.
During the summer I also tutored students who didn’t have the access to study English. This was driven by my mission trip to the Philippines.
Awards:
Student of the year grade 7. The student of the year is elected by the school principal and all the teachers. It is chosen based on if they demonstrated the principles of the school.
Local Singaporean math contest, scored top 89th percentile earning an award.
Distinguished technology teacher from Apple. I had to get this by doing testing and classes. It was a hard process as it took a few months but glad I got it.
Ssat
I didn’t take the SSAT yet but I took mock tests and my scores look like this
Verbal: 65-70 percentile range
Quantitative: 78-85 percentile range
Reading: 85-95 percentile range
Rough percentile on whole test 80-87
Please if there is any advice or feedback please let me know. If there is any schools that would fit my application please also don’t hesitate to tell me. Thank you so much!