Student Information: Student L
School: A middle school in Taizhou, Zhejiang
录取学校：Shady Side Academy（桑迪赛德）
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Self-portrait of student L
I am a 15-year-old girl from Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, a beautiful historical city in China, studying in Grade 9.
I love learning because there are so many close friends at school that I can interact with and we often help each other out together. Of course, I excelled in all subjects and was in the top 10% of my class. From a young age, I have built a solid foundation in English and can express my ideas fluently. The subjects I am particularly interested in are Physics and Mathematics.
I consider myself a very creative, competitive, and optimistic person. I like to make friends, we often communicate together, study, live and help each other. My friends think that I am hardworking and smart, have good management skills, and am willing to help my classmates, and I am a good helper to my teachers.
With my excellent academic performance and management skills, I was nominated as class president, participated in organizing parent-teacher conferences many times, and presided over various school activities and competitions.
I have many hobbies, tennis, skipping, jogging, shot put and skateboarding are my strengths, I often play tennis with my friends in and out of school, and I am also very keen to participate in various activities including clubs, academic, art and sports competitions, I won awards in the athletics competition of the school sports day.
Artistically, I love music and singing, and I like musical instruments such as guitar and violin.
You may ask, with such a heavy academic load, how can there be time? Actually, I've found that sports and art can help me relax and relieve my stress while enjoying myself.
In my spare time, I also participate in many volunteer activities, such as helping to manage tennis equipment as a tennis volunteer; Volunteer as a school cafeteria and help maintain discipline. I also work as a librarian near my home and help organize books in the library twice a week. I also serve as a health volunteer in the construction of civilized cities.
In short, I am a girl who loves learning and life, full of energy, with a strong sense of curiosity, exploration and enterprising.
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About Sandyside:
Founded in 1883 and located in the Pittsburgh area of Pennsylvania, United States, Shady Side Academy is a long-established private school with academic standards among the best in the United States. The school is only a 10-minute drive from Carnegie Mellon University and has been a key student source for Carnegie Mellon University for many years.
School Advantages:
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2. School scale: The school currently has 1,140 students, including 479 in high school, with a teacher-student ratio of 1:8 and an average of 15 students per class.
3. Academic ability: The teachers of the school are experts in their own teaching fields, and 70% of the teachers have a graduate degree or above. For the last two graduating classes, 85% of students who took AP exams received a score of 3 or higher, and 69% received a 4 or 5.
4. School Projects: The school has many opportunities in artistic performance, creating and performing more than 50 concerts, 8 to 10 large-scale theatrical productions and countless small performances every year. The school's robotics team is strong, with the junior and junior robotics teams competing in the first Lego League (FLL) competition, while the high school robotics team competing in the first Technical Challenge (FTC) tournament. Shadyside Academy also hosted its first robotics competition on middle and high school campuses.
5. School facilities: The school has a high school campus of about 130 acres, including a visual arts center, a performing arts center, two gymnasiums, a hockey rink, an ice hockey rink, two stadiums, a fitness center, three international squash courts, ten tennis courts, and a design center.
6. Admission direction: 84% of graduates will enter the top 100 schools ranked by USNews, and students will be enrolled in Boston University, Brown University, Carnegie Mellon University, Case Western Reserve University, Cornell University, New York University, Princeton University, Purdue University, UCLA, University of Florida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, University of San Diego, University of Texas at Austin, Villanova University, Wake Forest University, Washington University in St. Louis.
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Consultant Teacher Mairunken said
From the self-introduction of student L, we can see that student L is a girl with excellent academic performance, love sports and art, helpful, participated in a lot of volunteer services, and has strong organizational and leadership skills, not only the class leader, but also keen to organize and preside over school activities and competitions, and is a well-rounded, positive, optimistic and cheerful girl.
So, has the road to applying for high school changed?
The counselors of Mairunken study abroad recalls the process of repeated communication, preparation of essays, and application to schools, and the challenges in all aspects are still vividly in front of us. For example, student L has good grades in a school and good spoken English, but what kind of school can make children grow up in challenges and have a high sense of gain and happiness in the process of adapting to the new environment? In addition to the school introduction that we can usually see, does the atmosphere and atmosphere of the school match well with the children? From China's public schools to United States private high schools, there is a wide range of academic difficulty, what kind of curriculum can make children make a good transition and adapt well to the later difficulty? .......
In accordance with our principle of choosing a school for students studying in the United States, we applied to several schools after many times of communication and screening, and finally the child received an offer from Sandyside, the school of his choice.
While we wish the children a perfect leap, we believe that the children, their parents, and the consultants and teachers will have a richer spiritual growth in this process.