<p>Happy New Year! Dear CCers!</p>
<p>I am a junior, and i just saw my friend getting rejected from cambridge. i thought i had solid stats, but today i got my report card and this is clear not the case… :X </p>
<p>I am Korean who lived in Europe half of my life</p>
<p>My dream colleges are Harvard, Cambridge, Yale, Princeton, UPenn, Georgetown, Oxford, and Carnegie Mellon. </p>
<p>I know it is next year, but should i apply to these schools? Here are my stats: I’d be very happy to listen to some experts in the CC, please give me feedback! Thanks in advance! :DD</p>
<p>Type of school: the most competitive american school in germany.
Grades:
9th grade, 3.8
10th grade, 3.6
11 th grade,
4.1
4.8
12th grade,
hopefully 4.8
I have many b+s all over my transcript. like in sport. there is NO grade inflation, and it is extremely difficult, since the teachers are very strict. (just in case you want to see it, its bottom of the page. ![]()
rank: school does not rank, but top of the class. out of 230</p>
<p>ecs:
student council cabinet 9th
student council vice president 10th
student council president 10th
student council president 11th
student council advisor 12th (automatically, since iwas president)</p>
<p>for the resume: (SC)
attached solar panels around the school
organized a campus facelift event, made 25 thousand euros, which i donated. i am NOT kidding about this.
created teacher evaluation to evaluate the entire staff
established sc constitution
created a school website
created a student lounge
improved the weight room
speaker of the awards day
school sanitation manager (founder and president)
hosted 2 seminar days, inviting prominent figures to give a seminar in our school
plus many more sc fundraisers… </p>
<p>other activities:
violin (7th-12th grade, 5 years, first chair of the 2nd violins)
bodybuilding (10th-12th grade)
economics club; entered 6 major competitions
MUN; delegate, judge, delegate (school leader for one conference)
CSA: 400 hours, cleaning the school, juvenile’S home, best buddies, helping out seniors, </p>
<p>internship:
english teacher in an international school; i learned english in 6th grade, and i taught english in 10th grade, so that was a nice experience for me.
german tutor, english tutor, math tutor, SAT tutor: many hours
personal secretary to the vice chancellor of the state</p>
<p>SATs,…etc
SAT I 2400 800, 800, 800
sat 2
us history 800
math 2 800
german 800</p>
<p>APs taken and will be taken:
11th grade:
english a-
german b+
calculus b+
biology b+
comp gov a
us history a-
all 5s.</p>
<p>12th grade: No Bs, only As
english
calc bc
stats
chemistry
physics b
us gov (self study)
macroecon (self study)
microecon (self study)
world history(self study)
euro history
art history
human geography (self study)
enviro science (self study)</p>
<p>My biggest question:::::</p>
<p>Do the colleges mentioned above think bad about B+s?
Do they care about transcript, when i am top of the class?</p>
<p>Should I apply? Or just give up.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading such a long post and I wish you guys good luck for your applications!!</p>