Chance me for Amherst (International student from India)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Amherst College
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GPA:
9th grade: 10/10
10th grade: 10/10
11th grade : 93.4% (5 A+, 1A)
We still use CGPA in Kerala state board

SAT : 1560 (760 EBRW & 800 Math)

Background: non-binary gay individual from extremely rural India, very low family income, backward caste, went to government school

Honors:
1)KVPY Scholar
2)SSLC Top Scorer
3)ANTHE AIR - 14
4)State Level Essay - 1st
5)Best Student Award - 10th & 11th
6)JEE Percentile - 99.94 (should I put it??)

Extracurriculars :

  1. Research internship - 3 years with 3 primary authored research paper in Elsevier Journals
  2. Started an NGO aimed at suicide prevention, helped 200 people. Started it in May 2020.
  3. co-founded an IT and Business solutions company that generated a profit of $42K USD in the past year. Work as a co-CEO and a Data Scientist. It is a co-op company with centers/people in 4 countries - India, Ghana, UK, Sri Lanka. What we do is our executives advertise all of our skills and services on the local freelance websites in all the partner countries and allows payment via local currency thus increasing the client base.
  4. Finalist in 2 international level project Olympiads - one in the USA, one in Kenya. Presented research paper in various international and national conferences in IISc Banglore, NTU Singapore, Rice (virtual), etc.
    5)Debate & Literature Club - Participated and won 1st prize in state-level debate competition through all 4 years of school, President of Debate Club, won state-level Verification (9&11) and Speech (9&10)
    6)Student Body President- 10th grade(school leader) Student Body VP - 11th grade (assistant leader)
    7)Founding Member and primary contact of Robinhood Army’s chapter in my city
    8)Stanford Pre Collegiate Summer Institute - Astrochemistry
    9)Won Various Science and math quiz and Competitions at inter-school and state level
    10)Volunteered as contact tracer and in ensuring quarantine for 5 months
  5. Start a non-binary student support group (Currently in the process of starting it)

Certification:
1)IBM Certified Data Scientist
2)Microsoft Certified Azure Data Scientist Associate
3)SAS Certified Data Scientist
4)HPLC, LC-MS, GC-MS Certification (training program)

Courses with certification:

1)Micromasters in Science and Technology for Sustainability - Wageningen University (18 ECTS)
2)Micromasters in Statistics and Data Science - MIT 12 credits (currently enrolled)
3)Machine Learning - Stanford
4)IBM Data Science Professional Certification
5)X series Certificate in Anatomy - UMich
6)Introduction to Molecular Spectroscopy - UManchester
7) 12 other courses from EdX, Coursera, Udemy, etc

Languages: English, Malayalam, Spanish, Hindi at Advanced level, Sanskrit, Tamil, Urdu at an intermediate level.

Recommendations: I am hoping for a 10/10 from all the teachers I asked. Definitely an 8/10 for sure.

Essay: Haven’t written it yet. Hope to write a good one but chances are that it won’t be really good.

Please tell me whether I have a shot at Amherst if I apply in the early round. I do not have a college counselor or any officials that I can ask this question.

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I see you applied to Trinity ED last year. You reported your SAT as a 1370, now a 1560. Is this an accurate score or a projected one? Did you get accepted to any US schools last year? If you are already a HS graduate, what was your senior GPA? Please represent yourself correctly if you want any feedback

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I came to know about US Colleges and application in September 2019. October 2019 was my first SAT. I studied and retook it this August and received a 1560. I only applied to a few US schools last year and got into most of them except the reaches. I was clearly not ready for application back then - I knew nothing about the college application, I messed up my essay and I did not report most of my ECs 'cause I thought just like Indian universities, American universities only consider extracurricular achievements that were conducted in school. To answer your question, I haven’t graduated from HS because my exams had been postponed due to COVID-19. My expected graduation date is December 2020. So, I am unable to provide my senior year grades.

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wrong move

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Hello! You have great stats. I think you might have a good shot at Amherst. But I do not know about ED policy because from what I know Amherst and Williams do no take international Indian kids in ED round. Maybe doing RD would be a good idea if you are not prepared with your essays.