Can You Please Chance an International for JHU, Northwestern, Brown, Cornell, etc.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Hi guys, can you chance me for Cornell, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, JHU and Northwestern?
I am an international student from Turkey (dual citizenship from USA and Turkey), however I am not from major cities and know for a fact that only one student from my city has gone to an American university, which is Georgetown.

My school does not rank, however my GPA is 90/100, I am taking the most rigorous science curriculum and I am in the top 1%.

RECOMMENDATIONS: really good( bio, chemistry and english teachers)

SAT: 2160 in one sitting (CR:680, Math:770, WR:710)

Subjects:
Math Level 1: 760
Math Level 2: 770
Biology E: 750

Extracurriculars:
1.Project leader for organ donation campaign (11th and 12th grade)
2.Production team member of a documentary (this was big and won many awards)
3.MUN Club President (9,10,11)
4.Girls Basketball Team Member and Captain (9,10)
5.Worked for the ‘Association for Supporting Education’ helped organizing campaigns to support the education of girls from low-income families. (9,10,11)
6.Volunteered in the local nursing home for the elderly. (9,10,11)
7.Airport Employee (last summer)

ESSAYS:
I believe that my essays were pretty good, since I described that I am coming from a line of doctors, my father is an organ transplant surgeon, I have been watching his surgeries for a long time, and have grown up basically in hospitals and how this affected me. Also, since no school really knows my city, I described my small community, really close friendships and how they affected me etc.

To sum up, overall in my application I tried to show that I am not a statistic, and tried to make a well-rounded profile.Would really appreciate if you could state your opinion.
Thank you.

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Northwestern-High match
Cornell,JHU-Low reach
Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth-Reach
Harvard, Yale-High reach

You’re a great applicant but with the schools you’re applying to nothing can be guaranteed - especially for medicine. I think the fact that you’re from such a small city with little international presence will help and probably boost your chances. Would you mind chancing a fellow international :smiley: ?

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Oh thank you so much, btw I am not applying to medicine, but the neuroscience programs in the CAS departments, and of course I’ll try to help if I can

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As an American citizen applying from a small town in Turkey, you have a little boost, but I’d say your odds are about 1 in 20 (which is way better than for internationals, especially internationals who need help).
What are your matches (schools where at least 30% students are admitted and which the NPC shows are within budget) and safeties (schools where at least 40% students are admitted, where you’re in the top 10% applicants, and which the NPC shows are within budget.)

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Well my safeties are Boston U, U of Rochester, Northeastern and U of Miami. As for matches I have UVA, Tufts, and UMich. Btw myos1634, thank you so much for replying, and by saying my chances are better than internationals, do you think a have a fair shot at any of these schools? Lastly do you think the thing about my essays about my organ transplant experiences from my father’s patients could give me a little boost? Because my main essay is about observing one of the surgeries etc.

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Those safeties are matches.

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No actually, I have spoken to BU’s admissions officer for Turkey personally before and it went really well, and my guidance counsellor is one of the best in Turkey and she assured me that BU was a safety. Moreover, northeastern does not require SAT from international applicants but I’m sending it anyway, and my IELTS and TOEFL scores are really good. And I actually have a legacy from U of Miami, since my father got his associate prof. degree there and I was born there. Btw I am so so sorry if I sound pompous by any means (I sometimes speak very seriously in English even if I don’t intend to :D)

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bump

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Yes, you do sound pompous. And even if all that were true, they still aren’t safeties. You doing a disservice to GCs in Turkey by saying the best one said Northeastern is a safety. Because the best one was dead wrong. Talking to an admissions rep also doesn’t make it a safety. It’s still a reach for you. Miami also isn’t a safety. Even with legacy, if you are applying as an international, it is a reach. Also, you dropped all of your extracurricular activities. No bueno. Also, a school needs to be affordable to be a safety. If you can’t be full pay, it isn’t a safety

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Well at least I’m not mean. I am continuing many of my ec’s but I didn’t want to write here until I have completed at least one semester of them in my senior year. Secondly, obviously my gc says those are safeties since she knows more about my application than you do, person I have never met before. And lastly, instead of just guessing I applied for scholarships, you could ask me whether I needed scholarships or not. Obviously I know how hard it is to get scholarships as an international. In fact, I am applying for these schools as a full-pay student.

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Apparently some posters haven’t realized that you’re American, so you get the international boost without getting the huge disadvantage that internationals have.
This being said, remember admission officers want you to apply so they are likely to exagerate your odds - BU, Northeastern, U of Rochester, and U of Miami are matches, while UVA, Tufts, and UMich are reaches. You need to find 1 more match (NYU Poly? Tulane?) and 2 safeties. A safety for you would be SUNY Binghamton, UMass Amherst, Penn State, UMaryland, U Minnesota Twin Cities… Look into LACs, too.
Math Level1 as a subject doesn’t count. If you want to show academic strengths beyond the obvious (or intend to apply to Gergetown), you need one more, in a humanities subject.