Yasmin Sachee?s academic goals and extra-curricular activities shaped her plans for uni in the USA
Yasmin Chee
Name: Yasmin Sachee

Age: 19

School: St Paul’s Girls’ School, London

University: Harvard, Massachusetts
When I was contemplating studying at university in America, I thought the best place to start was to think about my academic goals and extra-curricular activities, and how I wanted them to shape my university education.
Firstly, my AS-level studies were very diverse ? I studied maths, further maths, Mandarin, history and economics. I felt quite restricted by limiting myself to studying just one subject. This gave me reason to consider other options, and American universities certainly had that appeal. I explored schools such as Brown, in Rhode Island, that would have given me complete freedom to take any courses I desired, or Columbia, in New York, that has more of a structured curriculum. Harvard, for me, strikes the perfect balance between the two; its General Education programme encourages students to take courses in eight different subject areas (from physics to philosophy), while still giving us a lot of freedom to choose our own courses.

Where do you live at Harvard"
For the first year, all freshmen

live on Harvard Yard. I lived in Weld Hall

During my senior school years, my time outside the classroom was heavily divided between my two very different hobbies: playing the organ and Chinese language and culture. I began playing th...