<p>I am from India and,like any one of you in this forum,preparing for the SAT-I, II,TOEFL and any exam that comes in my way.Well,regarding myself, I have had quite a good academic record, with a GPA of 3.5 + right since from grade 1 to grade 8. In grades 9 and 10, I got a perfect 4.0 GPA,with 4.0 even in the co-scholastic areas.But, unfortunately, in my grade 11, due to personal circumstances, I couldn't write one of the finals and ended up with a 3.0, and now, till now I am a 4.0 back again.And in addition to the GPA stuff, I was runner up in the All India National Aerolympics (formerly The Indian National Aerospace Olympiad) in my 11th grade, have won a lot of quizzes even at the state-level, attended camps by the most prestigious Engineering Institutes in the country, and have been headboy,house captain, and also am a part of like 3 clubs.Why, I have even participated in original- water rocket developing competitions held by the Indian Space Research Organization and also, World Space Week events. I am fluent in six languages, and have worked and made donations with and to NGOs. I intend to pursue an Engineering program in the United States, preferably the top colleges that are need-blind or even colleges like Wooster or Drexel since they are generous on aid when it comes to Internationals.The obstacle in my path, unfortunately, is money. I need aid. I need aid if I gotta go to the US.And it's my childhood dream. So could anyone of you just give me insights into my chances of getting into great colleges like Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth, Northwestern, Drexel, Wooster, UChicago or Cornell?</p>
<p>First of all, I’m not sure what you mean by “Wooster”.
I think you might be talking about Worcester Polytechnic Institute, commonly called WPI.</p>
<p>Secondly, you can’t lump these schools together. There is a HUGE difference between the admissions level of difficulty between schools such as Princeton and Yale and schools like Drexel and WPI.</p>
<p>Let’s just talk about SATs for a moment.
For Princeton, Yale, Dartmouth and Chicago, you should be thinking about 2200 or higher and realistically a 2300+ to be truly competative.</p>
<p>For Cornell or Northwestern a 2150-2250 would make you a competative applicant.</p>
<p>For WPI or Drexel, a 1900+ would be competative.</p>
<p>Since you are applying for a STEM program, you should consider an 800 on the math section to be a near-requirement for any of these.</p>
<p>@SJP1997 How can you possibly say a school like Northwestern is a “match” or Cornell is a “low reach” when you have no idea what his scores are?</p>
<p>And P.S. Chicago is not a “low reach” for ANYBODY.</p>
<p>I did find that Wooster offers a 3+2 with Case Western, U of Akron and Wash U. </p>
<p>The programs at CWRU and WUSTL award students a B.S. in engineering, while the program in Polymer Engineering at UAkron is accelerated and results in a Masters of Science degree. </p>
<p>That’s pretty neat way of getting into Wash U. </p>
<p>Yeah, sorry guys, I had a mistake. Chuck the College of Wooster out. Well, is it kind of possible to get handsome aid being an international at some good college? For example, like Johns Hopkins. Or could you guys just suggest me some good college? I would like the college to be good when it comes to rankings, but aid is my biggest issue.I checked out many colleges like University of Maryland College Park and all but couldn’t get a clear picture since they were a bit confusing.I would be really grateful to you guys.</p>
<p>I checked out The University of Washington in St.Louis today.Well, I saw the admissions and aid sections.They have mentioned to fill out the family profile or CSS profile but below that you got a paragraph which says you gotta show proof of financial support. Is it like if you qualify for aid or scholarship they’ll process the I-20 without need of any such docs?</p>
<p>And @SJP1997 could you just tell me what would be needed to make those three Ivies “Match” ?</p>
<p>@arvindvishak: Many schools are never a “match” for anybody.
Yale and Princeton routinely reject applicants with a 4.0/2400.
There is nothing you can do to make them a “match” for you. The best you can hope is to be a “qualified” applicant, but even >90% of qualified applicants are rejected from these schools.</p>
<p>@soze im basing this on his current stats. yes the grades are a factor but since I dont know the testing scores I can only base admission on what is currently shown. @arvindvishak there’s nothing you can really do to make an ivy a match university unfortunately. Ivies are some of the top universities in the country, with thousands of qualified applicants applying to them and the majority of them being rejected. Ivies are always going to be a reach for anyone because no one can simply know whether a person can get in or not. If you want to know how to improve your chances, i’d say get the highest sat score possible to stay competitive (Around 2300 at least for the ivies and selective universities you’ve chosen.) Best of luck to OP.</p>