<p>Please, if ANY international student who asked for FinAid got into UofC & Duke, please do me the favor of posting your stats, since I am a Junior depressed about the fact that admission for int'ls w/ FinAid is MUCH harder.
Thank you!</p>
<p>PS: Please post your SAT/ACT scores, geographic residence, GPA, AP/IB classes and scores. Thank you again</p>
<p>PPS: I posted this same thread on the UofC & Duke Forum</p>
<p>where are you, in china or in usa?</p>
<p>neither. Latin America (won't tell where though)</p>
<p>lol cause someone is going to come to your country and look for you ? What is U of C ? University of California ?</p>
<p>University of chicago (sry, I'd just copy pasted this from the Chicago forum where UofC naturally = UChicago)</p>
<p>Well, I got waitlisted from U of C and I applied for FinAid so I don't know if you're interested. Here's a short version of my stats anyway:
SAT: I- 2250, II- 800, 800, 790, 750
GPA: 3.96 UW
I took 9 AP classes, and 11 AP tests, including this year. I got 5's on all my AP tests so far except for one.
I actually go to high school in the US (California) but I'm an international student.</p>
<p>Good luck! I'm still disappointed by U of C's decision but yeah, it definitely is a lot harder because of the FinAid.</p>
<p>danielcarp: cerca, pero no exactamente. Which LatAm country is irrelevant</p>
<p>Duke only accept 25 international students who applied f-aid</p>
<p>I knew one boy who got in Duke in 2000 full ride. he did not even took SAT. but he won big award in physics.</p>
<p>you can know what kind students Duke look for now</p>
<p>Yo creo que tiene ventajas ser latinoamericano. Antes que viniera a estos foros pensaba que la mayoria de aplicantes internacionales eran latinos. No es asi. Me sorprendi por el numero de personas de Nepal, India, China, Singapore, Pakistan, que aplicaban a Estados Unidos. Las universidades no pueden tener estudiantes internacionales de solamente esas naciones, necesitan de otras. Ahi entra ser Latino. En El Salvador, un pais peque</p>
<p>A Nepalese friend, who applied from a United World College, got into Duke. Possibly he'll get a full ride.</p>
<p>I think he got 2060 in SAT.</p>
<p>hi,suixzh</p>
<p>2000... that is a too old fact..</p>
<p>I did not took SAT too. I have several amazing awards in Engineering (International Level).</p>
<p>And more important thing is I got a rejection...</p>
<p>To a certain extent, maybe the economy of the U.S is too bad, recently...There for, They can't make offers for international applicants.</p>
<p>Rejected from Northwestern University; I asked for full ride.</p>
<p>rejected at duke and waitlisted at wustl....asked for aid</p>
<p>Kowloon:</p>
<p>Yo soy de Argentina y acabo de entrar a U Chicago y Duke (sin pedir aid)<br>
IB 36
promedio 8.3 sobre 10
sat 2030
math2 740 physics 760 chem 760 spanish jjeje 800
toelf 106
essay increible (compare el symposim de platon con los simpsons)
ec muy buenos</p>
<p>tengo un amigo q aplico a los dos con aid
sat 1 y 2 parecidos
promedio 8.5 sin IB
essay medio malo
jugador d tenis</p>
<p>no entro a ninguna</p>
<p>pero no t lo digopara desalentarte tb entro a otras muy buenas</p>
<p>I don't know about Duke, but U of C certainly shouldn't be the first choice for internationals with fin need. Let's just face it - they have very limited money for internationals. I also asked for a full ride and got a rejection and now I blame myself for wasting my time on it while I could pay more attention to smaller schools that seek diversity, are not so super-competitive and give more aid. Well, I'm still waiting for some decisions, so we'll see what I have..</p>
<p>felicidades argg! Vos vas a Lincoln school/Belgrano Day school? (yo no soy de argentina, namas para q sepan, pero tengo amigos ahi). Ey y si, espero que el "premium" de ser vivir en un pais Latinoamericano me ayude (yo tengo 9.6/10, SAT 2000, 8 AP clases y aplico el anio k viene)</p>
<p>Anyways guys, I got some replies from the Duke thread and responses aren't too encouraging...
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/duke-university/479923-any-internationals-asking-finaid-who-got.html%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/duke-university/479923-any-internationals-asking-finaid-who-got.html</a></p>
<p>gracias .. no, iba al St. John's School
pero con tu curriculum tenes altas chacnes d entrar... l oq t digan en losd foros no tiene nada q ver , los americanos no sabes como se los considera a los latino.. solo q sepsa estadisticamente una vez un tipo publico q un 2050 para un latino es superioir a un 2400 d un asiatico x el hecho q hay menos asi q sentite feliz tienen en ocnsiderarion la parte del idioma</p>
<p>saludos y suerte el a</p>
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<p>what does this mean - u asked for aid or not</p>
<p>please post in english</p>
<p>sin pedir ayuda is without asking for aid</p>
<p>Grrrrrrr.... this whole deal about shunning poor int'ls as second-class-humans at top unis like UChicago and Duke(with more money than oxford or cambridge PUT TOGETHER) just ticks me off...</p>