Major of choice: Finance
SAT super scored: 2240
GPA: I go to a British School abroad so we don´t have GPA’s but my grades aren’t the best i’d say 3.6.
IB Diploma: 39/45
Ethnicit: White
Country: Portugal
No financial aid needed.
Maybe a hook: I´ve lived abroad my whole life in France, Portugal and Brazil.
Speak French Portuguese and English fluently.
EC:
Played tennis for 6 years.
Organised an event where underpriveleged kids played music for an audience which raised over 1000 dollars (in contact with an NGO)
Volunteer hours: 200
Have work experience: Worked at an investment bank for 2 weeks.
Went to a summer camp in the University of Oxford for a month
Played soccer on the school team for 2 years
Thank you for helping me and i´ll chance you back if you want!
Your SAT score is solid, and you’ve definitely had some unique experiences with living abroad that will surely give you an edge. Your volunteer work is also quite impressive. However, you suggested that your grades aren’t the best, so that could probably be something to improve on.
NYU: accepted
Columbia: denied
Notre Dame: accepted
UPenn: accepted
Vanderbilt: denied
uMich Ann Arbor: accepted
U of Texas: accepted
UCLA: denied
I’d have to see more about your classes and extracurriculars to make a more accurate prediction, though.
If you could predict my chances too, that’d be great!
If you are looking at the business school at UMich, the pre-admission at Ross is super-competitive as they only admit very small number of students. What is your higher single sit SAT score? UMich don’t superscore. Their mid 50 for admission was 2040-2280 last year. International students are hard to chance.
I thought internationals who could pay the full ride were what most universities wanted the most since they paid the most money but guess not then since all i hear is internationals getting fucked
Most OOS are also paying full price. UMich simply have too many applicants that can pay full price from OOS. There is definitely no advantage as an international student.
I might have to disagree with a previous poster saying acceptance to upenn. With an acceptance rate of 9.9% it is impossible for anyone to simple say “yeah you’ll be accepted”
I’m not saying you won’t get in, but I’m also not saying you will.
At many top teir schools, especially ivies, you just have to apply and see what they decide.
Not trying to shoot you down, or discourage you anyway, just don’t want you to think you’re definitely going to be accepted to upenn.
I think you have good stats (keep working on the GPA, as we all need to do) and you also have interesting ECs so you will definitely get into a good school.
Good luck!
Since i am an international and go to a british school i was really wondering. Why do you take an unweighted gpa into account if it doesnt account for what you do? If i knew UW was the most important i would have just taken easy courses
StraightBars - Probably because some US high schools no longer offer IP’s at all. Kind of a trend, even at some elite schools. So the unweighted provides a baseline measure. That’s one theory anyway. Curious, if you can share how your admissions results have gone?
