Part of school cricket team for 2 years.(Cricket is a spot played in india.It is the holy grail of sports in India).
Volunteered at a NGO
Started my Maths club in my senior year.(No clubs until now.First club in my school.)
Internship at a construction company.
Taught my servant’s 2 baby brothers at home cause they could not afford tutions in freshman year.
Part of a youth club in my area since it was founded.
P.S.:-Applying to UCB,Stanford,UIUC.
Those schools are reaches for most applicants (minus UIUC), but especially are for you. Your ECs are good, but you’d need something outstanding to win over schools like Stanford and UCB. UIUC is going to be a reach for international applicants as well.
(BTW, saying you tutored for your “servant’s” brothers isn’t a great look, just say you’re a tutor)
In case of UIUC,is it enough?
No. Again, UIUC is a reach for OOS students, and you’re international, which makes it even more of a reach. You’re also interested in applying STEM, which adds to the reach. The College of Engineering had a 12% acceptance rate this year.
Unless you are a recruited athlete or have super regional, national or international recognition of a talent or achievement, EC’s are not the drivers of admissions. They serve to separate and distinguish academic equivalent applicants as a school builds their entering class. For Stanford, are you one of the top students in all of India? For UCB, are you a top student and are full pay? Assuming you are academically competitive (GPA, rigor, test scores at or above matriculated school medians), how does your proven participation and accomplishments in your EC’s make you a more attractive candidate? Do they speak to qualities such as perseverance/dedication, leadership, teamwork, empathy? Lists mean nothing unless you can connect them to such desired qualities.
The EC’s are so-so. I don’t think they fit the schools to which you are applying at all. As noted above, the word servant isn’t used ( except as a derogatory term and mostly in the 19th Century). If I were reading an application with that word, I’d pause ( and that’s not what you want).
Most of the successful candidates at those institutions will have highly developed EC’s over the course of many years.
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Please can u consider my gpa being 4.0/4.0 and i score above 1550 in my pracise SAT’s(no SAT examination this year till now).
Those stat’s would make you competitive, but we are still talking a long shot for Stanford, although your chances are 0 if you do not apply. You might be attractive as a full pay international student at many T50 or better schools if your goal is getting your undergrad degree here.
For UIUC it’s still a reach. UCB and Stanford are still close to impossible.
I think what everyone is trying to say is you are applying to all very high reach schools for all applicants, but being international makes it worse. UIUC is less of a reach but not at all easy for any OOS or International kids. When looking at UIUC stats you might think it’s a great fit, but the stats are brought down a bit by in-state students.
You can apply to the schools you mentioned but you better have some strong safeties that you’re applying to as well.
Can everybody please tell me some safeties I can apply to.If you have the time.
Thank you. 