I am student from india amd want to join an ivy league i have 4 gpa on unweighted scale and perfect sat score(1600) and sat subject score (800, 800) in maths 2 and physics also i have 2 letter of recommendations feom head of departments (graduated from iit india top institution) and a great essay with me i also volunteer in an non profit organization for 3 months and a video creator on youtube with 1000 subscribers and write blogs related to tech on by blog websites and won a olympiad with international rank 2000 in my junior year 9 grade and bussiness handler with my father helping them on daily basis to enrich my entrprenuerial spirit
Let me tell you by start step by step
Grade 9:- international rank 2000
Grade 10 (2016) :- got all A in social activities in school and also in sports
Decided to help my father and study freely so i choose indian government authorised open school as high school and after 2 years in 2018 wgen i decided to give exams (2018) a tragedy happened a severe death of my mother real brother so i disturbes mentally and decided to give my high school exams next year and joined a institute for help and copinhlg up with pain so i startstudying hard and got all perfect A in academics so after these exams in 2019 i have 4 gpa perfect sat scre and after that voluntered in ngo and done youtube as passions apart studying
So can i have any chance to get in princeton, harvard, yale etc… ivy leagues or amherst college
Your chances are 50/50 if you write a good essay. Based on your writing from your post, though, you need considerable work on that essay if you want to get your foot in the door.
@Avish11 You seem to be a bright student, with perfect scores in SAT and high GPA etc.
But you have to realize that Harvard, Yale, Princeton etc. have very low admit rates, and more so for international students and very few US colleges give financial aid to international students, and it appears you need scholarships.
Do some research and check other forum discussions with students from India to get a better idea.
Why do you want to go to Ivies only ? They are all quite different.
What do you want to study ?
How did you get recommendations from IIT professors ? did you work or research in their labs ?`
There are currently 21 International students from India at Harvard - roughly 5 per year. Are you one of the 5 best candidates from your country this year? That is the level of competition you are looking at.
It’s very difficult to get into any of the Ivy League schools even with perfect stats, great everything, no financial need, US citizen.
For Out of country, an overrepresented Country, with financial need , without intense knowledge of the schools and an outstanding reason to attend them, it’s even more difficult. Your chances are in single digits and maybe fractions of that.
For starters, you should know each of the schools very well, what they have to offer, what they require and want, and how you fit into each of them. I say EACH because the Ivy League is just a bunch of colleges in a sports league. They are not the 8 best schools in the country or have any other such relationship. So your application and requirements for Cornell are going to be very different from that of Harvard and of Dartmouth. Dartmouth much more like Colgate, Hamilton, Union, Bowdoin and other such schools than like the other Ivies. It takes a lot to put together a passionate mapplication with the right essays, activities, tone, LORs for any one of these schools. You have to somehow personalize for all 8.
Most of these schools are not need blind in admissions for International students nor do they fund that many of them. You need to know the financial aid policies of each school.
It’s a lot of work.
If you really want this, go ahead and give it a go. But like anyone else who applies to these schools, make sure you have some sure things that you can do for college.
Of the 5 students from India, one or two will be athletic admits. Some of the best squash players are from India, so many of the Ivies recruit.
So although your grades and scores are wonderful, you need to have something else to push you over the edge. I sense that your writing skills need some improvement. The admissions people will see that via your essays.
There are plenty of schools farther down the list that would love to have someone like you.
I’m sorry about your mom. Unfortunately, I can’t make out most of what this says. Punctuation would help, but it wouldn’t be enough. Education in the US in in English. Have you taken the TOEFL? You’ll need to score really well to be competitive for US schools.