<p>CHANCES</p>
<p>International student, female, applying RD, need a lot of fin aid</p>
<p>Stats
Freshman year GPA: 3.1
Sophomore year GPA: 3.0
and then HUGE leap
</p>
<p>British O-level results: 8 As in all 8 subjects
(4.0, if converted to GPA)
Junior year GPA: 3.9
British AS-level results: Eco = A
Bio = A
Chem = B (3.67 if converted to GPA)
Senior year GPA (first semester): 4.0</p>
<p>Got lots of Bs and Cs in first two years of high school (class of 50 students). Old school offered only till O levels. </p>
<p>Changed schools to do A levels. New school has 290 students in my batch. Very competitive. Have mostly As in new school, except for a B in chemistry. Have toughest course load in class 5 A level subjects</p>
<p>Class rank = 4/290 (top 1.4%)</p>
<p>SAT II
Lit - 670
Math I - 630
Math II - 550<br>
(retaking in dec)</p>
<p>ECAs:</p>
<p>MUSIC
- over 10 years of training in Indian classical music + Rabindrasangeet
- performed in school events
- sang on television twice
- won numerous awards outside school
- consecutively won the Certificate of Achievement in Music for 3 years in high school</p>
<p>DEBATE/ HOSTING:
- best speaker in semi finals in school debate in 9th grade
- runners up in finals in school debate 9th grade
- participated in many interschool debates
- parliamentarian in winning team in EFA finals 9th grade
- participated in 1st International Debate Workshop in Bangladesh 2004 11th grade
- parliamentarian in National Bangladesh Television English Debate championships in 2005
- nationally ranked as one of the top 5 debaters in Pre-worlds School Debate 2005
- general secretary of my schools debating society
- was the emcee at numerous events held on national days outside school
- hosted the Edexcel International Conference in 2005</p>
<p>COMMUNITY SERVICE:
- raised funds for flood victims in 9th grade
- organized a fund raiser in neighborhood to collect money for the treatment of a child suffering from polio
- treasurer of schools community service club 11th and 12th grades
- raised funds in school wide food sale for a childrens ward in a local hospital 12th grade </p>
<p>WRITING/OTHER CLUBS:
- contributed in school yearbooks 9th and 10th grades
- essay got commended by the royal commonwealth society in 10th grade
- Associate Editor of school newsletter 11th grade
- Editor-in-Chief of school newsletter 12th grade
- member of Brine Pickles, a creative writers group
- recently was the youngest playwright to have a play staged at the British Council, Dhaka
- founded the first ever A level yearbook in my school (we have over 650 A level students in all the batches). Editor-in-chief of the yearbook.
- chief coordinator of the schools reading club, which I founded
- completed a course in photography from the South Asian Institute of Photography in 12th grade</p>
<p>ACADEMIC/ NON ACADEMIC HONOURS
- won the Certificate of Achievement in Economics in 9th grade
- won the Certificate of Achievement in English in 10th grade
- won the Daily Star Nation Builders of Tomorrow Award (given to candidates getting 6 As or above in their O levels) for 8 As.
- chosen by the school to be the Closing Assembly Speaker for the Class of 2004
- chosen by the class to give the speech at graduation</p>
<p>WORK EXPERIENCE
- executive feature writer of Rising Stars, the most popular weekly supplement of a national English newspaper (average circulation figure of 50000)
*tutored a middle school student in 11th grade</p>
<p>APPLICATION
- expecting good recommendations
- want to major in English and International Studies
- essay should be ok/good (suffering from writers block, so not sure)
- will mention that I want to be a writer
- SAT I: will give on Nov 5th: possible score:
Critical Reading ~ 700
Writing ~ 650
Math ~ 650-ish? (pessimistically speaking)</p>