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On December 15, Stanford University sent an acceptance letter to Liu Haoqu, a senior SENIOR AP student at Chengdu Foreign Chinese School: "You are a perfect match for Stanford, and you will integrate into the Stanford campus with your unique personality." This is also the fifth student admitted to Stanford University at the Chengdu Foreign Chinese School.
On December 16, Liu Haoqu, who was very talkative, was interviewed by a cover news reporter by phone.
From elementary school, he studied in Chengwai Affiliated Elementary School, junior high school won the third class scholarship of Chengwai, high school won the International Department's annual 108,000 yuan scholarship, TOEFL 117 points, NSDA National Speech and Debate Finals Debate High School Group Third Place, FBLA American High School Business Competition - Economics National Competition Overall Score Gold Medal (Fifth in the Country), 2020 American Academic Decathlon Speech and Interview Double Gold Medal, Becoming the Secretary General of the Foreign Model Alliance...
Liu Haoqu said that he has loved to travel since he was a child, and when he applied to Stanford, he chose three fields of economics, sociology and gender studies.
Focus on gender equality
Liu Haoqu began attending the primary school attached to Chengdu Foreign Chinese School from the age of 6. From an early age, he began to live in the school, exercising his independent ability. "I love to travel, and I started to have the idea of studying abroad in junior high school." Liu Haoqu said that he likes the feeling of classmates sitting on the grass and chatting freely in college, "I feel that this atmosphere is very suitable for me." ”
When applying to Stanford University, Liu Haoqu's interests were in three directions: economics, sociology, and gender equality. In the application essay, he mentioned the experience of traveling to Mangshi, Yunnan, where some of the traditions followed by rural women triggered his thinking, he read the foreign literature "Feminism", focused on the objectification of female characters in film and television dramas, and the inequality of women in the workplace.
Liu Haoqu admired the Bangladeshi economist Mohammed Yunus, the "banker of the poor" who founded the bank to help women and provide them with microcredit. "I've found that economics is not just about job opportunities, it's also about race, religion, education, and social equality."
Four-in-a-1000 winners of double gold medals
Liu Haoqu is a competition-type academic bully. At the USAD2020 American Academic Decathlon Competition, Liu Haoqu stood out from 2,500 contestants and successfully won the double gold medal in interviews and speeches in China, becoming the only double gold medal student in the southwest region to win this four-thousandths award rate.
In the competition, he chose the controversial topic of environmental protection, "As an international citizen, we have the responsibility and obligation to have our own understanding of every topic and every hot topic in the world." Do what should be done, make a sound. ”
World Economic Cup
The first global award in my life
"WEC Silver Award, this is my first global award in my life, but also the first time in my life to participate in the national team to get the ranking, although only 7 points away from the gold award, but as one of the members of the national team I have been honored, and there is a small single lucky to take the world first, our Chinese team also won the world's ninth place in 48 teams!" Such results made me feel that the questions I had practiced before, the knowledge points I had memorized, and the speeches I had recorded many times were all worth it. ”
As a high school economics competition that gathers the world's top students and has the widest radiation coverage, WEC (World Economic Cup) is currently not directly open to individual registration, and participants need to participate in the form of team organization. Liu Haoqu was invited to become a representative of the Chinese national team with his excellent result of the Gold Medal in the FBLA China Economics Finals in the 2019-2020 academic year (fifth in the country) and participated in the 2020 WEC Global Competition with students from Shanghai and Guangzhou. The competition includes China, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany and other 33 countries, 48 teams, 251 players to participate, the competition is divided into "economic foundation, deep understanding, thinking and innovation" three parts, in addition to the students macro and microeconomics and other basic knowledge assessment, the competition also fully considers global warming, artificial intelligence, trade conflicts, human health and other diversified issues. "It was a time of anxiety and I felt very directionless." But one cannot always stay on the top of the mountain where the scenery of the past was, nor can one lie on the bottom of the valley called anxiety all the time. Learn from many friends around you that concentrating on yourself is a compulsory course for everyone. So Liu Haoqu adjusted his mentality, calmed down to do problems, read books, accumulated knowledge, found his weak points, slowly improved, and gradually found a balanced state.
"Mom was very strict with me"
Liu Haoqu likes to watch dramas, listen to music, swim, and after high school, he insists on running for 15 minutes a day. Liu Haoqu's homework efficiency is relatively fast, "I am more Buddhist and like to walk according to my own rhythm." He doesn't make schedules, he likes to go through what he has to do in his head every morning, "I think making a schedule is a bit restrictive to my freedom." ”
He loves language, and on travel, he's the little translator of the family. "My mother is very strict, and it will be very unpleasant to see me brushing the drama." However, Liu Haoqu, who is good at debate, debated with his mother, and watching dramas helped to learn English.
TOEFL score of 117, AP courses 7 out of 5 points, Liu Haoqu said that his experience in learning English is to read more and read more, he even spoke English to himself.
After applying to Stanford, his next step was to work out and learn Japanese.
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