Chance an international plz

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi all, I am an international and wanted to know how my chances are so far and what I can improve upon. I have attended a US high school my whole high school career though, so I don't have to deal with the TOEFL and other kinds of those tests.</p>

<p>Academics</p>

<p>SAT I: 800-M, 740-CR, 750-W
SAT II: Biology-790
Math IIC and Chemistry to be taken</p>

<p>GPA - 4.0 UW/ 6.2 W(Our school does it wierd, adds 0.08 for every yearlong honors class)
Class Rank: 1/600
APs: Enough to qualify for National AP Scholar before senior year if I do good on this year's exams</p>

<p>ECs</p>

<p>Leadership Positions/Clubs
President - Mu Alpha Theta
Math team captain
Co founder - Cause club
Senior Officer - Science Club
NHS, Spanish Honors</p>

<p>Volunteering
Continually volunteer with Red Cross - 200+ hrs
-disaster recovery,hospital volunteer -got an award for this
Peer Tutoring - Chemistry,Biology
Media Center Volunteer - 100hrs
Big brother/big Sister</p>

<p>Awards
USABO Semifinalist 2007
USABO Semifinalist 2008
Brighthouse Youth Volunteer Award/Scholarship
Prospective National merit Semifinalist
Prospective National AP Scholar before Senior yr
Bosch and Lomb Science Award
Renessaler Medal</p>

<p>Research
Will be attending a summer research program - 6 weeks, was mentioned in the MIT blog as a good summer program</p>

<p>Work/Hobbies
Professional Fish Breeder/Aquarist - 5hrs per week
Powerlifting
Tennis - but not good enough for college.</p>

<p>Applying to:
HYP and Dartmouth - SCEA to Yale
MIT
Cornell, Stanford, Duke - applying for aid as an international</p>

<p>Also I have two safety state schools.</p>

<p>So how does it look for me so far? Thanks in advance</p>

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<p>Come on guys</p>

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<p>okayyy just my two cents, youre excellent but somehow applying to cornell/standford with financial aid will lower your chances considering youre an international. </p>

<p>but really, youre credentials are excellent.</p>

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<p>Thanks a lot syamil_1. Yea, I realize that. Any one of the ivy league schools is looking like a crapshoot now with their less than 5% international acceptance rate. Will going to a US high school the whole time help me? Anyways, even if I don't get accepted, I'm pretty sure I'll qualify for National Merit (PSAT 236) and my state school pays me $17,000 + perks, every year if I make finalist. Anyone else?</p>

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<p>wow, pretty awesome stats. only down-side is international, but won't be too bad at all.</p>

<p>are you URM/ORM? will make a big difference. I'm assuming you're not URM since then you should not even have to ask for chances, you're auto-in at at least one ivy XD</p>

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<p>Hey, I chanced you back on my thread, just in case you haven't checked back.</p>

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<p>Harvard - Reject
Yale - Reach
Princeton -Reach
Dartmouth - Match
MIT - Reject
Cornell - Match
Stanford - Match-Reach
Duke - Match</p>

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<p>Great stats, but you might want to learn how to spell Bausch & Lomb and Rensselear for the application. If you won both these awards and finished in the top 20 in the USABO biology competition two years in a row, then you should get admitted to any biology program in the US in my view with your grades and test scores and other ECs. (although you'll still need to go 730 or above on your last two SAT IIs for Harvard).</p>

<p>Best of luck to you.</p>

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<p>woah, Reject at MIT and Match-Reach at Stanford? I disagree.
i think both are Reaches.
Thats just standard for most top schools, so its nothin against u. Personally, i think you have a strong application. It really comes down to whether Stanford and MIT like the personality u create on the application</p>

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<p>Sorry this is slightly random, but green card holder = international?</p>

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<p>^ No, you're compared with domestic people</p>

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<p>Great stats! You definitely stand as good a chance as the rest applying to HYPMS! Gd luck!</p>