Chance an International for Columbia ED, Tufts, UCLA etc?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey there,</p>

<p>Vital Stats:
- Singaporean (International), Chinese, Female
- SAT I: 1570/2260 (790 CR, 780 M, 690 W)
- SAT II: taking Math IIC & Physics in Oct. (within the 700-800 range)
- Course load: very demanding.
- May be applying for financial aid.</p>

<p>School Results:
- Predicted A-level Grades: probably 5As
- O-level Equiv Grades: A1 for Math/Physics/Literature/Social Studies, A2 for English/History/Chemistry (GPA Equiv: 3.84)</p>

<p>EC's:
- Club - Editorial/Magazine, 10th</p>

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<p>Community:
- Tutored primary 6 students (7th to 10th)
- Helped out at an old folks' home during New Year celebrations. (11th)
- Sold various memorabilia during LitWeek to help raise funds for needy students (11th)
- About 132 community service hours over 2 years.</p>

<p>Possible Majors: (Haven't decided which yet)
- Political Science
- International Relations
- Business Economics
- Journalism/Mass Comms
NOT interested in Math/Science.</p>

<p>Schools
- Columbia (ED)
- Yale
- UPenn (Wharton)
- Brown
- UCB
- UCLA
- NYU (College of Arts/Sciences)
- Tufts
- UChig
- USC</p>

<p>Thanks in advance! :D</p>

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<p>applying for aid to columbia ed will proabbly kill ur application</p>

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<p>What if I don't apply for financial aid from any of the colleges? What are my chances for them?</p>

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<p>probably in at USC, NYU, UCLA
everything else is a reach...your extra curriculars dont seem that in-depth or passionate...why are polisci and int.rel your possible majors when you don't have any extra curriculars in those areas?</p>

<p>chance me back- <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/572875-ivies-ucs.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/572875-ivies-ucs.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Thanks cherrypicker! My school is a little more focused on Sports/Societies for EC's, and we don't really have things like model UN (not that I know of anyway). I know my EC's may be a little weak in terms of scope/achievements but I'm hoping they wouldn't pull me down so much.</p>

<p>As for wanting to take polsci/intlrelations, I was thinking that my 2 years of taking Sinology (part of the curriculum is a subset of Intl Relations with a little concentration on polsci in China) will help me a little. :/</p>

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<p>Bump, anyone else?</p>

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<p>Hey, isn't that my format? :P</p>

<p>Anyway, basically concur with cherrypicker, good shot at NYU, UCLA and USC if you don't apply for financial aid. UChicago's admission is quite dependent on your essay response to their supplement so work on that. The Ivies and UCBerkeley are crapshoots for any international</p>

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<p>I looked into USC but it doesn't have finaid apart from the full-tuition merit scholarships (called presidential)</p>

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<p>^ I knew someone who got that a few years back from Hwa Chong, but she decided against it and went to Cambridge =p. So FYI it isn't impossible to get.</p>

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<p>Yeah but Cali ain't cheap to live in ya know. And it's Los Angeles, baybee.</p>

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<p>Thanks you guys! =)</p>

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Hey, isn't that my format? :P

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<p>Ack crap it is?! :\ Eek! I was surfing around the forum and it seemed to me that this was one of the common formats. Sorry!</p>

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I looked into USC but it doesn't have finaid apart from the full-tuition merit scholarships (called presidential)

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<p>Oh yeah I heard about that. But I remember reading something about needing consistent straight A grades and putting USC as your first choice. Could have mixed it up with requirements for some other scholarship though. I'm still unsure about applying there - too many colleges on my list as it is. :/</p>

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<p>apply to Princeton btw. they seem to be taking in more and more Singaporeans every year. </p>

<p>also, Princeton has a great economics program, an even better politics program, and the good ol Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs! and it's RD-only, so doesn't make a diff to your early apps.</p>

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<p>OP - I recall an interview I read with Harvard's head of admissions. I'm sorry I lost the link but it went something like this (others please correct) --</p>

<p>There are three categories of admittees:</p>

<p>1) Academic superstars. Have excelled in international competitions. Would have done fine in college at 14 or 15. Have advanced in their field and contributed already in peer reviewed publications.</p>

<p>2) Standout leadership/other noteworthy non-academic EC accomplishment in <em>additional</em> to an outstanding academic record. This part reminds me of a writer I knew who said: "OK, now here's the man bites dog part...." In other words, what is the applicant's unexpected, fantastic, head turning accomplishment? The thing that makes the adcom stop and say.. "Wow!"</p>

<p>3) An identified specific need of the college, a HOOK, which can be ethnic, geographic, athletic, adversity overcome, etc.</p>

<p>There is no category for "Really, really smart, and very good at lots of things".</p>

<p>You might fit into category 3. Depends on how many applicantions from Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia/Philippines come in this year.</p>

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<p>DunninLA is right if he's referring to international applicants. I still think that for domestic applicants there's room for "really smart and very good at lots of things."</p>

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<p>You prob have decent chances for brown/uchicago/ucb etc... your sch is well known for being an ivy league feeder sch for a reason haha</p>

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<p>Apply to Stanford too! I think Stanford takes the most students from Singapore out of all of HYPSM.</p>

<p>Stanford's economics program and communications are top-notch as well, and it hosts the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution and Peace, and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies.</p>

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<p>1234d what's her school? how could you tell from her post? hahah, i've read through it time and time again and still can't figure it out.</p>

<p>^^ I think Stanford's economics program is only marginally better than Princeton's, or even equal. Think tanks don't mean much to the undergrad who can't go there for classes :P</p>

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<p>^ The Freeman Spogli Institute has fellowships for undergraduate students pursuing research and many fellows at Hoover and FSI also hold Stanford professorships and thus do teach regular Stanford classes =p.</p>

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<p>^^ Having a fellowships can't compare to actually majoring in international studies for 2 years at Princeton's WWS. All Princeton undergrads, including WWS ones, have to do independent research for senior thesis anyway. </p>

<p>Princeton has classes taught by great profs too. You don't need to be in a think tank to be a great professor :P</p>

<p>on a side note, pretty sad that neither Stanford or Princeton got a Nobel this year... yet. crosses fingers for economics prize</p>

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<p>omg thanks so much for the replies you guys! :D DunninLA, thanks for the admission-type breakdown list. </p>

<p>I was considering Stanford at first actually, but I felt that I wasn't really up to par to their standards, and from what I hear, their admission rate for S'poreans is less than Yale's (besides, 4 Ivys on my list is more than enough risk for me heh). As for Princeton, I really wanted to go there because of their awesome record in the social sciences etc... and then I realised they needed 3 SAT Subject Tests, which I can't exactly fulfil unless I attempt to crashcourse Chem or Bio or World History in 2 months (assuming I take the Dec tests) or take Chinese Listening in Nov (which clashes with the A's). :( Not to mention it's still notoriously difficult to get in - I heard only 2 from my school were accepted. </p>

<p>1234d, lol yeah that fact was totally mentioned in our school profile (except in a more discreet manner, but the implication stares you in the face).</p>