Chance me for American Universities

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Hey guys, I am an Indian studying in the 12th grade currently.
Here are my stats:

CBSE
9th - 9.4
10th - 9.8
11th - 73%
12th - 1st term - 60% :frowning: (I had a really hard time becuz of various traumatising reasons)
2nd term - 98% (Recuperated during summer…Hope it will make up for everything)

SAT 2 (Math, physics and chem) - 2400
SAT French - 720
ACT - 35
TOEFL - 115

Extracurriculars:

  1. Coding and programming (CS) - App development, testing, ethical hacking, website development. Also co-founded a company currently designing website and apps for clients.
  1. Music - My contemporary passion after CS, play the keyboard, saxophone and guitar. Have been playing keyboard for almost 10 years now and have a degree in it. Part of a band in school too. Music videos too.
  2. Sports - Gym, basketball and karate for 5 years. Also a sprinter and an athlete in general. Yoga also.
  3. Others: Have participated in several national competitions in various fields. Solve puzzles. Very interested in Cosmology and research about it too.
  4. Internships - Have done internships in two different companies, both revolving around programming and coding.

Essay - I would rate it 8/10
My friends rated it 9/10

Colleges I am applying to:
MIT, Stanford, UCB, Georgiatech, Purdue, Columbia, Harvard, Cornell, Princeton, Caltech, Michigan and Carnegie Mellon.

Prospective colleges i want to get into so badly:
UCB, Stanford, Caltech, Georgiatech so pls look more into them when chancing me :slight_smile:

Hope to hear good responses and thanks for all the replies in advance :smiley:

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Need financial aid?

International students are compared to their countrymen and India happens to be over-represented so your chances will be difficult.
UCB and Umichigan are public universities so no financial aid for international students.
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, and Caltech are extreme reaches.
The others will be reaches because of your GPA. If you need financial aid, your chances go down even further.

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No I don’t need financial aid. Do you think my SAT and ACT scores can make up for my GPA? Plus, my most recent score would be the 98% of my second term exams. I am actually looking up on UCB as my perfect fit, but what do you say?

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I had a comparable SAT (2360) and way poorer 12th scores (74% Maharashtra HSC) and still got into Ross (UMich), UCB, and UCLA (for econ though). With your ACT though, I think you have a good chance of making it to UCB, UMich, and GaTech. Perhaps CMU. I would recommend cutting down on the ivies and other top ranked universities and focussing on large state schools such as UW Madison, PSU, or UT Austin which too have highly ranked CS programs (which I assume is your intended major). Ivies generally involve a lot of luck while you’ll make it for sure to any one of these state schools and you won’t have yourself a very poor deal!