{"id":14792,"date":"2013-04-25T08:58:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T12:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=14792"},"modified":"2013-05-10T16:47:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T20:47:07","slug":"application-and-assignment-essays-for-top-u-s-universities__jason-leung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/?p=14792","title":{"rendered":"Application and Assignment Essays for Top U.S. Universities__Jason Leung"},"content":{"rendered":"

[In \u91d1\u699c\u984c\u540d<\/a>, Don Chen (71) shares the experience how his son brought up in LA applied to top U.S.Universities.\u00a0 Here, Jason\u2019s experience is able to offer more insight on this topic.\u00a0 Jason, son of Terence Leung (71), was brought up in Hong Kong and is now a lawyer in Hong Kong.]<\/p>\n

“We are native speakers of Cantonese who have not lived in any English-speaking country for more than 14 days.\u00a0Our son, Jason, went to Yew Chung International School (\u8000\u4e2d\u570b\u969b\u5b78\u6821) for his primary education up to P.5 and thereafter studied for a term at Kowloon Junior School and was then promoted to Shatin College (\u6c99\u7530\u66f8\u9662) on a through-train basis since these latter two belong to the\u00a0English Schools Foundation (ESF) system.<\/p>\n

At the age of 17 and all through high school, Jason\u00a0remained a top student, but not one of those star pupils, and it was kind of odd that he wanted to go to\u00a0college in\u00a0America because ESF schools, by tradition, have no or very little affiliation with American universities.<\/p>\n

Jason applied to 8 American universities and liberal arts colleges\u00a0circa the end of 2004 and early 2005. His SAT score is 1520\/1600 and got 4A*s and 4As in IGCSE in the previous year. Other than these, he didn’t have\u00a0an attractive CV to accompany his application since he couldn’t play any\u00a0musical instruments nor\u00a0did any sports, and only did whatever community services that were assigned by\u00a0school. As for awards, he once won\u00a0a prize\u00a0in a poem competition in junior forms and that was all. Jason had always been a very quiet\u00a0student and seldom took part in school activities. He only enjoyed writing and\u00a0surprised us with his writing assignments from time to time.<\/p>\n

In 2005, he was accepted by Pomona College, Amherst College, Reed College, Middlebury College, Wesleyan University, Ohio Wesleyan University (with an offer of scholarship) and The University of Chicago straight, no interviews required. The only school that rejected him was Swarthmore.<\/p>\n

He chose to go to Amherst because of the writing tradition there. Here are 2 essays of his application<\/a> and assignment <\/a>essays that show his\u00a0varied writing\u00a0styles.<\/p>\n

We think it was a matter of luck that Jason’s essays hit the right key when college counselors peruse them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[In \u91d1\u699c\u984c\u540d, Don Chen (71) shares the experience how his son brought up in LA applied to top U.S.Universities.\u00a0 Here, Jason\u2019s experience is able to offer more insight on this topic.\u00a0 Jason, son of Terence Leung (71), was brought up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[220],"class_list":["post-14792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-terence-leung"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14792"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14928,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14792\/revisions\/14928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wykontario.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}