Another lame what are my chances post

Colleges and Universities A-Z Washington University in St. Louis
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<p>I'm an Indian-born Canadian citizen living in California. I attend the 9th best school in the State, it's very competitive, we're a feeder school for UC Berkeley, a ton of UCs and we had 5 kids already accepted early to Stanford this year, amongst earlies to Brown, Cornell, 2 to Harvard, etc.</p>

<p>Sat1: M690 V720 Total 1410
Sat2: 2c: 640 Bio: 640 Writing: 800
Unweighted ~3.8 with 6 APs, 2 Honors</p>

<p>AP Bio 4
AP US 5
AP Euro 4
AP Calc AB 3
AP Calc BC TBD
AP Chem TBD</p>

<p>I'm a competitive speaker and debater. Amongst many many many top three finishes at league tournaments in Student Congress, International/National Extemporaneous, Original Advocacy, Parli Debate, Cross Ex Debate I have the following notable accomplishments:</p>

<p>Ranked 3rd in the State of CA in International Extemp last year</p>

<p>Ranked 8th in the State of CA in International Extemp my soph year</p>

<p>National Finalist at the 2004 NFL National Championships in Student Congress (top 20 in the nation)</p>

<p>I have a crapload of finalist finishes at tourneys like Stanford, Cal, i'll be flying to Emory to compete at the Barkley Forum tournament later this month, hopefully I can schedule an on-campus interview. I'm Captain of the Extemp team (the best team in the State), I'm an officer on the speech team. Was cofounder and treasurer of Conservative Club, co-founder and secretary of Indian club, Tech Editor and Assistant EIC of a indepedent student news magazine (much like the economist), I'm a Defense Attorney and Pretrial Attorney on my schools highly competitive mock trial team. I've been a youth group leader in my local temple every week for the past four years. Played volleyball soph year, got a couple of meaningless awards like scholar athlete and mvp.</p>

<p>My slight hook: my parents moved our fam from Canada 4 years ago and they own a few UPS Stores. I've worked at the stores every day for four years, I have like 5000 hours of work experience. Through work, I got in contact with the CEO of a large Indian airline and I've been given an internship for the summer after my senior year.</p>

<p>My essays were decent I guess, I dunno, im a pretty good writer. My recs are impeccable because i've had my eng teacher for two years and my speech coach/teacher also wrote me a letter.</p>

<p>Im not applying for financial aid and im applying undeclared arts and sciences, but my app has a STRONG business/econ theme because of work and the whole "immigrants American Dream thing"</p>

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<p>i say you have a very good chance at cornell and washu ( not applying for financial aid is a HUGE bonus) </p>

<p>Secondly, if you ar ean canadian citizen, how can you work ?</p>

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<p>family business</p>

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<p>You can't apply for financial aid anyway if you're not a US Citizen / Permanent resident</p>

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<p>haha, well, ok, thank god I dont actualy need it then</p>

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<p>I have somewhat similar stats to you, but got rejected to Cornell(ED) and into Washington U(ED II). I had killer essays and personal experience, but your ECs are much better than mine. I also applied to engineering, which at Cornell atleast, is much harder to get into. You have a good chance, but they're both slight reaches. Good Luck!</p>

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<p>lol international applicant CAN appply for financial aid</p>

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<p>Do you mean scholarships or financial-based need? If you're not at least a permanent resident you cannot get grants. I know because a couple of my friends had to withdraw admissions to other schools because they were international students.</p>

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<p>You have a VERRRRYYYY GOOOD chance....</p>

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<p>Well other schools are different lol, theres n o common system of rules for colleges. I am applying to washu with financial aid ( need based) AND for scholarships too. So far i have not encountered any problems</p>