Chance a Student

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Pakistani, SAT optional, financial aid
Cambridge International Examinations: O levels: 5A* 3As, Alevels 4A*
GPA: 4.0 (unweighted), rank 1/35, private school.
Majors: BME/Bioengineering + Cognitive Science + English.

Recommendations: English teacher flawless, my counselor wrote a 1000 word rec letter for me, and my bio and research mentors submitted letters that, knowing them, I will rate 8/10. My YYGS mentor sent a rec letter directly to yale.

Essay: Music, chords, and my life journey (4 parts) I would rate that 8/10 at least, and I have shown that to few other accepted students, not to Stanford but to other places who have rated it even higher.

1, Yale Young Global Scholars, ASE/BBS YL-Leadership scholarship, innovated a method to solve the streak of misinformation amidst COVID-19 via unbiased global communication. 100+new friends, multidisciplinary lectures: music-medicine. (Foreign Exchange)

2, President and Founder of Literary and Arts Society, Started celebration of Book week, art gallery, collaborated with FAST, started a blogging platform for mental issues, Chief-editor, 5000+ followers (Publications and Journalism)

3, Co-Founder and Captain of Debate team, 5 MUNs with BDs and HMs, UNSC, solution of border security and sovereignty threat, 15 Parliamentary debates with mostly accolades, coached juniors. (Debate)

4, Published poetry book and poems in newspapers Wrote Bloom of Grief poetry book with 40+ poems that portray emotions with grief and the manner people handled it; 2 articles, 2 poems in a newspaper. (Journalism)

5, Coordinator BDSWO, ISC, Chief Writer. Lead blood drives supplied 500+ people with blood plasma, shared 100+narratives of Covid-19 survivors, initiated several side projects against hunger. (Community Service)

6, Co-Founder, Science Editor, “Seriously” & “YGS” Scientific journals, initiated a platform for youth from 22 countries to publish research papers and articles, published 3 editions, 60+ papers/articles on Bioinformatics, Prosthetics, genetics, etc. (Research/Journalism)

7, Founder & President, Pak-Chapter, Limitlessminds 450+tutors, 300+tutees, initiated a tutoring program in Pakistan and globally to help socially anxious and differently-abled students. (Community Service)

8, Marketing & Data Manager Intern, Healthcare ENT. Healthcare analyst; analyzed historical data to predict trends, improve outreach for medicine and healthcare equipment to hospitals and universities. (Internship for 4 years)

9, Cared for my grandfather, stroke survivor taking care of his basic needs in my father’s absence, learning stories of Kashmir and his past, sharing many memories with him while eating “Ghoshtabai” Kashmiri meatballs. (Family Responsibilities) (Supplemental essay, something meaningful)

10, Founder and President of Anime club.
Analyzed 250+anime; Held seminars and workshops on Japanese art, culture, and societal issues; Lead a team and competed in an Intl. Manga competition. (Art/Culture)

11, Published Research on Receptive Language disorder Researched about the prevalence of language disorders among teens on four possible variables that can help with diagnoses, published a research paper (was something personal that led me to this and my essays shows this.)

12, Silver Medalist International Science Olympiad at El- Salvador,

13, Thrice Silver medalist National Olympiad.

14, Researching on Group theory,

15, National level medals for Debating and MUNS.

Plz, comment on my chances in the 1-5 rating method. I would extremely appreciate that for Stanford, Yale and Duke.

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@Lindagaf Plz chance me.

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@Waiting2exhale please chance my profile.

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@aunt_bea please chance my profile.

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@Gumbymom please chance my profile.

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Because you need financial aid, as an international student, it will be difficult to know how the universities will fund students. Your EC’s are all over the place and it would be hard for adcoms to believe that you had time for all of your studies and time for all of those hours of EC’s. It’s not quantity they want to see, but quality.
Covid has hit the universities tough, where it counts-the money.

Funding, for US students, comes from the parents- and most parents can’t afford expensive schools. If you can’t fully fund your education for all four years, then your chances will be slim.

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Agree with Aunt Bea. You probably aren’t going to like my assessment.

You need money. That’s a negative.

A 1000 word recommendation will probably raise eyebrows.

Your ECs might be totally legitimate, but from what you’ve written here, I think some AO’s will, again, raise their eyebrows because there are only so many hours in the day. Maybe your 1000 word recommendation explains how you manage to do so much.

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Thanks for advice on ECs. As for financial aid its a no brainer that any applicant applying from international background will face the financial barrier and a competitive pool. I wanted a chance on how do my activities portray my competitiveness. Also, my activities fit perfectly for the three majors I have chosen so they are not that random.

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Yeah I probably should have cleared it out. In Pakistan maximum students that are applying to US are in private schools with max number of student per counsellor is around 50 even out of that 5 to 10 apply so counsellors write 1000 word essays for school’s best candidates. I know 10 names that are at the top of my head that went to top unis with 1000+ words rec letter and hundreds who did not have 1000 words rec and were not accepted to top 20 schools. Money is a no brainer I know that that is why I wanna know my competitiveness. Plz rate my competitiveness based on ECs. Also Yale is need blind.

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I don’t think your app will be rejected immediately. IMO, your chances are not better than the average applicant, and maybe slightly worse because you’re an international needing FA.

Beyond that, this year is well and truly expected to be unpredictable. As ever, institutional needs will set the tone. Do they need an international who needs FA? Do they need a Yale global scholar who writes poetry and founded an Anime club? We have no way of knowing. Best of luck and hopefully you applied to other schools that are a little easier to get into.

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Don’t ask to be chanced if you don’t want to hear the answers. You asked.

FYI: I’ve had three of my children go through this process and go to selective schools, graduate, and go on to grad/professional schools and one is in a med school program. Husband is a Stanford grad and used to interview candidates. I’ve had experience going through this process with former students, as well as, personal relationships with two adcoms.
So, take my experience with a grain of salt.
Three majors? In four years? You obviously are very unfamiliar with how the US university majors and graduation requirements work in a four year program.
Also, need blind doesn’t mean that Yale will fully fund you. It means that when your application is reviewed, they do not consider your ability, to pay for your education, as a factor, when deciding admission status.

Also, consider what you plan to do with your degrees. You can’t stay in the US unless you are sponsored. The schools can educate you, but employment is something completely different. Immigration rules have become very strict. Employers must employ US citizens first, before they can consider even sponsoring a noncitizen, which is expensive and time consuming. Most employers have this issue listed on their websites. Maybe @TomSrOfBoston should comment.

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@aunt_bea
So sorry if I would have offended you in any way. Loved your last part of advice and yeah the part of getting a sponsor will definitely be difficult.
As for chance me is concerned you had chanced me earlier on before EA/ED round and I liked you advice so wanted to compare my competitiveness from then to now.
Also the three majors I mentioned. I didn’t mean that I would be pursuing all three, I would be pursuing one out of those but in my apps, for all three unis, I will mention them.

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Thank you so much I am optimistic but yeah I know my odds are really low. Hoping for the best.

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