Chance for Columbia and Georgetown

<p>Hi. I'm an international student applying for the u.s. It is my dream since I was little.Now is the time and I find the application process a bit difficult for international's students. I would love to know what do you think about my grades, ec's etc...</p>

<p>Gpa: 3,8, probably 4.15(1ª quarter senior year)
Sat: 1700( I know it´s awful, I´m not good at standardized tests) I´ll do it again in December.
Sat II: Sat Math 1- 600 Sat biology- 540 (awful too)
Ap classes not offered in my country (only in two schools)</p>

<p>Ec´s</p>

<ul>
<li>President of the student body ( in charge of the yearbook, all dances(prom) and the spring break trip, and all the other things)</li>
<li>President and founder of the first key club in Portugal</li>
<li>Founder President of the science club</li>
<li>Founder and Editor of the high school's newspaper</li>
<li>Founder, CEO and CFO of "Go Youth conference"</li>
<li>Media manager at a Tedx event in Potugal
Founder and President of a national recognise association called(Association for teen entrepreneurship);</li>
<li>Doing research with phd professors about forensic entomology at university of Lisbon</li>
<li>Implemented in school a project to save energy by re-utilizing oil and transforming it in biodiesel</li>
<li>founded and "run" a movement for a change in the educational system in my country</li>
<li>I write and i´m the school correspondent for a national magazine in Portugal</li>
<li>volunteer at the national food bank</li>
<li>team member and blog administrator for daphnia project in my high school</li>
<li>I was class president for two year in junior high ( i don´t know if they care about it)</li>
<li>Manager and founder of a "recycled books project", raising and buying old manuals and then distributing them to students who need the most</li>
<li>I'm in the political commission of a national wide party in the regional area( i´m in the youth section of the party), it's the same thing as young democrats or young republicans, and I´m in the elected commission for my city.</li>
<li>I attended a program at university of Aveiro (Portugal) in the summer where I studied robotics, biology,etc</li>
<li>I practice tennis for 7 hours a week, being ranked as top 350 under-16 (back on those days) and ranked top 250 under-18 -- national rankings (where I compete with people who play for 10 years, and I just play for 4 years)</li>
</ul>

<p>Awards:</p>

<p>-1ª place in the high school prize for science research
- honorable mention in a national science contest in Portugal
- 6th place out of 250 in other national science contest
- Finalist in the science contest in Portugal, which is the qualifying contest for Intel Isef
- Semi Finalist in Do Something awards Portugal in entrepreneurship category</p>

<p>I think that's it . Please chance me for these colleges and I´ll chance you back. Your honest opinion please.</p>

<p>P.s- i´m white and non of my parents have been in universities at u.s.</p>

<p>Wow your ECs are truly amazing, however they wont help offset your low SAT score and SAT Biology score. Your GPA is in Columbia’s and Georgetown’s range but your SAT especially for an international student is a bit low. If you could get it to at least 2000, then I’d say you’d have a decent shot. </p>

<p>Additionally you have alot of ECs so you must can write some exceptional essays from them. Remember, although I stress your SAT score,its only one aspect of your application so work on the other areas to make sure they are exceptional too</p>

<p>Good Luck on Saturday!!!</p>

<p>Amazing ECs but godawful test scores. Come back with SAT 2200+ and 800s for subject tests and you’d be a cert for Georgetown, if not Columbia.</p>