<p>Hello.
I'd like to know what my chances of getting into a college like Harvard or Stanford are.
I haven't yet taken the SAT but I'm preparing quite well for it. My other credentials are:
*I am an Intel ISEF semi-finalist. My project was in psychology and that is what I aspire to major in.
*I am ranked 681 in world scrabble ratings.
*Was the founder editor of my school newspaper
*Two-time Junior national scrabble champion
*Will soon be a published author(Traditional publishing, not self)
*Won plenty of prizes in quizzing, debating, extempore etc.</p>
<p>This question is asked by almost everyone who are applying to the US. There is no ‘set’ credentials to get into Ivy League. No one can be sure about having a chance in Ivy League Colleges or not. According to them, for every student that they accept, they reject 5 applicants who were of equal qualifications.
Besides, Ivies are not the only good colleges. There are many other colleges that are as good, like CalTech or UC - Berkeley.
Anyways, your credentials and qualifications are pretty good, but for more accurate chancing I think you need to include your grades and other information. </p>
<p>Hello,
I am a parent. My daughter has a score of 2190, 700 cr, 710 writing, 780 math. She is an Ntse scholar. Consistent topper in one of the most reputed schools in the city. An accomplished classical dancer. Basket ball school captain.
Not very confident of clearing Olympiads. Which are the univs we should be applying, we would need some form of need blind aid or scholarship.
We are looking at undergrad in comp science
Regards</p>
<p>@sramas: Hi! I am also a parent. My son was in2016er.
If you need FA are are looking for need blind FA, then there are only 6 universities(as far as I know) that are need blind for International students. (You are intl, rihgt?)
HYPM, Amherst and Dartmouth are the only truely need blind universities for Intls.</p>
<p>Though there are many need aware univ. that you can apply to, but that will affect your chances of admission. </p>
<p>Some Public Universities will give you merit based scholarships. And some public univ., though they do not offer any FA, they are cheaper than private universities and still in top 10 like GTech, UIUC etc,</p>
<p>Adding to my previous post, I will be needing 100% financial aid as the annual income of my parents is around $5000 with no other assets.
Which would be the best univs to apply to considering these factors?</p>
<p>I’d say you should look for some independent scholarships and your current credentials could make you a strong candidate for a few of them. The only downside is that most of these scholarships are for Americans. Anyway, you should look on the internet.</p>
<p>Also, as Mump said, your chances won’t be affected at the six schools mentioned above. You should fill up the FAFSA (Financial Aid form) and try to find out which universities are generous in financial aid. I’m not the best srouce for financial aid since I didn’t do any research myself.</p>
<p>Sramas, a few good ones for computer science where my friends are headed to are Harvey Mudd, Princeton, Cornell and Harvard. UC Berkeley is amazing for CSc. and so is MIT. Carnegie Mellon’s another good choice but gives close to zero financial aid. As an alternative to financial aid, your daughter could apply for some scholarships as I mentioned above.</p>
<p>Oh since you said public universities, here are some other good ones: UIUC (University of Illionis at Urbana-Champaign), Gerogia Tech and UCLA (University of California at Los Angeles)</p>
<p>sramas, that depends entirely on her college choices as well as the rest of the application, including but not limited to:
[ul]
[<em>]The Personal Statement (The 500 word Common App Essay)
[</em>]Letters of Recommendation (The recommender should preferably include anecdotes to illustrate their claims. Less adjectives, more incidents)
[<em>]Ability to Pay (Expected Financial Contribution)
[</em>]Depth of Extra-curriculuar activities (JEE prep / sports / writing / arts / dance / …)
[li]Class Rank (Academics)[/li][/ul]</p>
<p>2190 within itself is a great score, ten more than what I scored. But as one says, the higher the better. However, you can be sure with anything above a 2250 that the college wouldn’t reject the students based solely on the SAT score (I’m thinking about colleges such as Princeton, Harvard, MIT while saying this). For most of the other colleges we talked about above, it’s a phenomenal score.</p>
<p>^^2190 is a competitive score…but if you are targetting ivies, a 2300+ will definitely strengthen the application. If she has taken the SAT only once, sure, why not try in October again…BUT only if she is sure to increase by 100 + points. Purdue, Texas a&M, wpi, rpi are other good colleges that may offer some merit scholarship.</p>
<p>@sramas: Is your daughter mainly focusing on HYPS schools, or is she looking at state universities? By the way, are you looking at colleges in India?</p>
almost 70-80% students there have a financial aid …</p>