Anxious Senior Chance me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Just another senior waiting for most of the decisions. Applied to mostly reaches. Requiring financial aid and international. I can afford my state school, but it will be a financial stretch.

I’ve applied to
Deferred Princeton,
Harvard
JHU
Columbia
Williams
Yale
Rice
Stanford
University of Chicago
Cornell
Dartmouth
Caltech
Northwestern
Duke
MIT
Vandy
UPenn
Accepted GT EA
Accepted UVA
Accepted UNC

1560 SAT Math: 800, Reading/Writing: 760, Essay: 19
800 Math II, 710 Chem, 800 Biology, 770 Physics
Cumulative GPA: 4.4
Ranked 1
AP Chem (5) AP Bio (5), AP Physics 1(3), AP Micro(5) , Comp Sci A( 5), AP Stats (4), AP Calc BC(5), AP LIT (5), APUSH (4), AP Lang (5),

Senior Year: AP French, Engineering., AP US Gov, AP Psychology, AP Macro Econ, AP Physics C, Calc 3 and Linear algebra, Anatomy and Physiology

Future major: undecided, Maybe BME or Applied Mathematics

Extracurricular:
Tennis and Captain; Local tournament wins, nothing major.
VP of SGA
Bunch of local Math, Science, and essay Competitions
Research on Desalination
200 volunteer hours at a local hospital
AIME Qualifier
SAT/ACT Program founder, students from across the county
President of Interact club.
Founded a Chess Club
NHS Treasurer
Learning Languages: Know Chinese, Portuguese, Latin, Tamil, Spanish. Currently learning French and Italian(independently)

Recommendations: Amazing for the most part, especially the one from a research mentor.
Essays/Supplements: 9/10 common app. Supplements were pretty good as well. I think Dartmouth and Penn might have been the best.

Country: International (Living in the united states)
Income Bracket: less than 60k
School: public, small, rural
Questbridge
Indian Male

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i mean… you stand a good chance at all of these besides the obvious lottery schools (HYPSM + Caltech and Stanford). i can definitely see you getting into vanderbilt, williams, cornell, and rice. it’s all up to luck now.

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@kalons Thanks and it’s just so hard to navigate everything as an international student living in the united states.

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Anyone else?

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@HarvardBoiii I know right, at least I got $300 for passing that test :wink:

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It’s very hard to predict admission to this caliber of schools. That being said you are very qualified and are competitive for these schools. I cannot definitively say whether or not you will get into schools that have admissions rates of >10%. Considering your grades and extra-circulars, and the amount of schools you applied to, it is likely that you will get into a few of them. Good luck.

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@BingBong284 Thanks for the feedback!

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bump

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Hold on. International and you also mention “I can afford my state school” What? I’m confused

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@MrElonMusk I’ve been living in the United States for a while now, so I qualify for instate tuition and a few scholarships. I’ll be a permanent resident in another year or two. I know this process has confused me too as well, especially sending in all the financial aid documents.

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@jjumper43 okay, I understand. I think you are a very strong applicant, especially the multiple languages you know.

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Thanks @MrElonMusk

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@jjumper43 Hope it all goes well for you!

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I think you will get into quite a few.

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Thank you @MrElonMusk @tmf2018

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I think your stats are amazing, but the most important thing is whether or not you had something specific that you focused on in your applications that might make you stand out. For the more difficult schools you’re applying to, that’s what it comes down to with a pool of similarly outstanding stats.

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Didn’t MIT and JHU release decisions?

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You’re in real good shape with the three acceptances. That being said, the others are really going to be tough to get in because of your ethnicity and wanting FA as an international applicant (which most of these colleges don’t give). This is a very top heavy list, did you not apply to other private colleges that are a little less selective (CMU, Tufts etc). Since this is a chance me thread, I think you’ll get into 4-5 colleges, most likely Williams, Cornell, Rice, Penn, Vanderbilt
You may get waitlisted at a few - Northwestern, Princeton, Chicago, JHU
Probably rejected from the rest.

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@FourYearsornot I got waitlisted at MIT and JHU is tomorrow.

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@theloniusmonk I do agree that being able to attend a state university for me is advantage compared to other international students. 3/4 of the colleges that I applied to give 50+ international Freshman Fin aid and at Cornell, I’m considered for need blind admissions (really hoping of this one). I didn’t apply to tufts due to time constraint and CMU doeskin give fin aid to international students.