<p>Here is my list:
U. Chicago, Cornell, Grinnell, Northeastern U., Dickinson college, Lehigh, Bucknell, NYU Abu Dhabi (ED)</p>
<p>Here are my info:
GPA: 15 out of a 20 scale (very rigorous courses, and very competitive high school)
Class rank: 25/102
SAT: Math 700
CR: 640
Writing: 600
SAT2: Math 2: 600/ French: 800
Recommendations: I think they're excellent (the teachers know me very well)
Essay: Great
EC's: Bass player ,co-founder of 2 bands, quarter-finalist of a national musical festival.
Poetry, founder of my High school's "Poets' Union"
Member of a chess club
Model UN
Volunteer Work: Founder of a program of French and Math tutoring for primary school kids.
I am an international student, and need Financial Aid.</p>
<p>Do I have any chances to get into one of the universities listed above?</p>
<p>I hate to sound like a pessimist as the majority of your application is quite good, but I think Chicago and Cornell are moderatley high reaches. The class rank and the scores are nice and high, but, even with a rigorous cirriculum, that 15/20 GPA (which, to me, reads as a 3.0) is too low for some of them. Its a shame because I seem to share a lot of similar interests with you.</p>
<p>Chicago - Mid Reach
Cornell - Mid-High Reach
Bucknell - High Match
Lehigh - High Match
Grinnell - High Match
Richmond - High Match
Northeastern - Match
Dickinson - Match</p>
<p>I definatley like how well rounded your list looks, and hopefully you can get into one of your two reach schools.</p>
<p>are you french coz i know french system is based on grades up to 2o.
if u are french, i see no point in taking sat 2 in french coz it would be ridiculous if u didn’t get a 800.
chicago, cornell and nyu are high reaches but u have a pretty good shot at other schools.
good luck!</p>
<p>WOW. you’re like me! but i’m French. haha. I took the SAT II French as well…</p>
<p>Je pense que tu as assez de chance pour la plupart des universites (sauf Cornell… Ivy comme meme). Ils essayent de recruter des etrangers parce qu’ils ont besoin d’argent… et comme tu en es un…</p>
<p>Sorry if I’m being rude but why did you take French when it’s your mother tongue? It seems like you wanted an easy way out and couldn’t score better on other SATs… =S </p>
<p>Universities in the US don’t know that French is a very common language in Morocco, so they’ll probably think that it is my personnal effort . Dickinson and Northeastern are not safeties, my only safety is not listed above: St Johns college (NM, Santa Fe), this is a small college that receives bout 25 applications a year from international students, and they don’t expect you to be a genius! NYU Campus at Abu Dhabi is the new campus of NYU at Abu Dhabi (Emirates), their first class will be the class of 2010, they will have only 100 students in that class, they’re need blind and are probably more flexible in their admissions than NYU New York are.</p>
<p>And colleges won’t pick me because they want money, simply because I want their money, I need Financial Aid. If you noticed, all the colleges in my list are generous!</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of that GPA scale, but a 15/20 is a C, so a 2.5? Idk. If it’s a 2.5 every school on this list is either not worth applying to, or a high reach…</p>
<p>2.5??? Nooo ! 15/20 is concidered as a very good mark here, and even the brightest students in Morocco rarely reach 16.5/20. No no it’s not a C, it’s probably a B+, not sure though…</p>
<p>I don’t even think that they’ll take my grades into account, because our system is primarily based on national exams, and I got an 17.5/20 in my exams? sorry I forgot to add that in the post :s</p>
<p>i believe you are underestimaing Americans because it’s also genral knowledge that Marocco was a French colony about 60 years ago and everyone there speaks French on C1/C2 level. My mom’s from Luxembourg and I speak French wtih her at home and have dual citizenship and coz of that didnt take french in sats. I’m just saying it is arrogant in a way that u took french and take another subject test when after xmas holidays.
ps cingrats for great grades at ur exams, i know how though it is!</p>
<p>I think your chances for colleges that require subject tests are low. There isn’t any top school that accepts students with low subject test scores. In addition, how isn’t it possible for an admission counselor to realize that you grew up in a French speaking community when your transcripts can reveal that ?</p>
<p>On the other hand, I have a good feeling of you’ll get in to most of the colleges that don’t require subject tests.</p>
. Dickinson and Northeastern are not safeties, my only safety is not listed above: St Johns college (NM, Santa Fe), this is a small college that receives bout 25 applications a year from international students, and they don’t expect you to be a genius! NYU Campus at Abu Dhabi is the new campus of NYU at Abu Dhabi (Emirates), their first class will be the class of 2010, they will have only 100 students in that class, they’re need blind and are probably more flexible in their admissions than NYU New York are.</p>