<p>I am from India studying in one of the best schools and its really competitive.
SAT Score - 2280 (Reading-750, Math-760, Writing-770)
SAT 2 Math Level 2- 800, Physics and Chem not given but I expect 780-800 in them also
AP Calculus AB, Physics C, Chemistry- all 5s
Class ranks
9th grade-10 (I am afraid about this year dragging me down)
10th grade-3 (This is really good for Board Year in India...)
11th grade-3 (Phew 11th is tough in India!)
12th grade- Results due in October for midterm exams</p>
<p>I have a post in my school which is equal to the President Student's Council in the American system so you can compare...</p>
<p>Done 200 hours social service but its not sustained, I worked with 2 diff. NGOs for 3 months each this year and last year but I did solid work.</p>
<p>I am a proficient writer- 5 articles have been published in prestigious newspapers (I wonder if you have heard of The Statesman or Hindustan Times Next?), won story writing competitions and national level essay writing competetions and received a red blazer for excellence in creative writing from my school, written great poems and helped to bring out my school magazine last year</p>
<p>Debating and MUN(heard of this?...its great fun!)- Won inter and intra school debates, won international MUN conferences, well known in my school for this!!</p>
<p>Sports- Practiced Kickboxing for 2 years, but I am not a blackbelt or anything</p>
<p>I have not won any mathematical olympiads or science awards, but I will have very good recommendations and will write great application essays( I am a writer!)</p>
<p>I may not have a lot of stuff but I am very ambitious and would love an Ivy...Please be honest in your opinion, ruthless if necessary because I want good advice</p>
<p>international students have a much rougher time entering Ivys. So you are going to have to be more brilliant than the domestic applicants. So far, it seems like you are pretty much a little bit above average for a regular applicant, so I guess you have a slim chance. But gl anyways! I am applying too</p>
<p>haha, 2280 and 5s in Physics C and Chemistry and Calc AB, as a junior and you say he’s a “little above average” in the applicant pool? </p>
<p>Getting into the ivies is definitely a crpashoot for 90+% of applicants (except the recruited jocks, URMs, grandfather endowed a building, or you’'re in IMO, Westinghouse etc.)</p>
<p>If you apply to some subset of the eight ivies, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Hopkins, Wash U. you’ll get into a top flight college. If you’re interested in Wall Street recruiting, the most important thing is to keep your GPA high. Investment banks recruit about the same number of kids from all the targets (more from Penn because of Wharton). If you want to get into med or law school, where you go is not important, it’s all about the GPA and MCAT, LSAT respectively.</p>
<p>Advice to all students- get into a “good” enough school and work hard on a high GPA (3.7+) or go to a state school and work really hard on a really high GPA (3.9+). This will open up a lucrative career in banking/trading/portfolio management, law or medicine. Do not take difficult classes in college if you think your GPA is going to suffer for it. The job market outside of programming and accounting is incredibly tough right now.</p>
<p>While I agree with Harvard1009 in the sense that you should apply to UPenn, Brown, Columbia, etc. in addition to HYPSM, I disagree with his opinion that you have no chance whatsoever at HYPSM. You’ve got as good of a chance as anyone else who applies. The only problem is it’ll be hard to stick out from the other applicants. But I wouldn’t say you have absolutely no chance at those top schools.</p>
<p>I think the phrase “Am I good enough” is a bit unfortunate. I suspect you are good enough, as are many students that would never get in. I know what you’re asking, would your application be competitive, but I am just saying…</p>
<p>To the OP, I know people on the web in India use a lot of colloquial language and text speak but you really need to practice your standard written English on here. I’m skeptical of the level of competition in the creative writing contests you’ve entered if you really write like this.</p>
<p>Also, Harvard 1009, I thought you were at Harvard but it looks like you haven’t applied or been accepted anywhere yet. What do you contribute to a freshman class? What does anyone contribute to a freshman class exactly? When one gets to college, one realizes how insignificant and anonymous everyone is. Unless you attend an LAC, it’s a completely different environment from high school.</p>
<p>Ivies suck at sports except fencing and crew and music/performing arts tend to be a notch below the conservatories.</p>
<p>“Are international students eligible for financial aid?
Yes. Princeton is one of only six schools nationwide that doesn’t limit the financial aid available to international students. Admission is offered to students regardless of their ability to pay, and the full need of every admitted international student is met just as it is for U.S. students.”</p>
<p>Harvard1009- student associations on campus are by and large totally worthless- most serve to function as resume padding for their members. The organizations basically don’t do anything, elect 20 people to their respective governing boards who also don’t do anything and the webpages are generally three or four years out of date. </p>
<p>Grad school admissions officers and corporate hiring managers are well aware of this and 9 times out of 10, heavily discount this section of the application/resume.</p>
<p>cm burns…I am sorry but you just touched a nerve. Being skeptical about someone’s writing abilities just because he is using informal language in a forum? I think you are just one of those annoying pompous individuals who are dying to flaunt their ‘wisdom’. Of all the feedbacks that I have received thus far, yours is the most WORTHLESS. SERIOUSLY. And please carry your insipid argument with Harvard 1009 out of my forum.</p>