Chance me. International applicant from India.
Major CSE - BS
year 12 scores and grades(perncetilewise): 76% (Physics - 73/100 - B2, maths - 76/100 - A2, chemistry - 60/100 - D1, english - 80/100 - B1, Physical Education - 90/100 - A1), I guess it is around 3.6-3.7 gpa on a 4.0 scale but that’s what my teacher told, not sure though…
new SAT: 1330 (780: Maths(39/40), 550:eng (31/40: reading, 24/40: grammar)
TOEFL: 97 (26: reading, 28: listening ,19: speaking, 24: writing)
Ec:
- Sports: cricket: 4 years, badminton: 1 year, tennis: 1 year, volleyball: 2 years, rifle shooting: 1 year, football: 1 year, Karate: 1year; went Open National Karate Championship
- Dance, Art, Music vocal and instrumetal: 2 years, Art competition 3rd prize
- Olympiads(just participation): Regional Maths Olympiad - 1 time, International Maths Olympiad - 2 time, National Science Olympiad - 2 time, National Talent Search Examination - 1 time, National Science Talent Search Examination - 2 time.
- Learnt how to build a computer
- learnt Python from coursera
- learning how to build robots
Chances of admission in CSE (BS), asumming no scholarship needed?
Is BS a major or the Bachelor of Science?
Here are the stats of admitted students by college. CSE is the most selective. What would be your backup college at UMN in case you didn’t get in?
https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/academics/profile.html
@JBStillFlying I have already been accepted to UT Arlington, Iowa state university and university of iowa for fall 2017.
Yes, BS is Bachelor of Science and the CSE range in that link is from 1360-1490 on new SAT, is that range like mid 50% or that is the complete range? My score is 1330 and the rest about my application is written in question.
1360 - 1490 is the mid 50% range and it’s really a preliminary range for the new SAT based on the College Board concordance. You are just outside the lowest 25% there; however, your math score is excellent so that’s going to help you.
The gpa of 3.6-3.7, assuming it’s unweighted, is probably just on the low side. Is your senior year really a 76%? Is that a significant drop from prior years? If so that will be a red flag. Or maybe I’m misinterpreting how that converts to the American GPA.
Your EC’s are great.
So hard to tell but I’m guessing it’s a reach. By “college” earlier I meant what UMN college. For instance if you applied to CSE you were also given a chance to specify an alternate major (and college). What did you specify?
For University of IA - were you admitted to the college of arts and sciences or college of engineering?
Good luck to you!
@jbsjbs
There is no converter between Indian scores and American GPA, that gpa I said is just assumption. There are some conversion scale out there but nothing solid conversion.
My senior year is highest compared to my all years from IX to XII classes. And to my XI, percentage wise it is a lot higher. I had higher percentile in XI than in XII but in my XI class it was just nearly 200 students and in XII there were 1,067,900 students. But my XI percentile is not official as my school does not report that. I had percentage wise downfall in XI except that all my year is going upward and resultant is also upward.
My EC’s are just from IX to XII year as I thought EC older then that won’t be important.
Yes, my eng score in SAT is very low but I thought my TOEFL reading and writing might compensate that.
My score got 76% because I got sick in chemistry exam and wasn’t able to perform.
And I applied to computer engineering as my second major.
I got accepted in college of engineering in University of Iowa with some scholarship.
@JBStillFlying I forgot to add one thing in my EC that I took training for Civil Defense and volunteered for Social Service for one year.
Also the things I wrote in my previous answer… By mistake I tagged someone jbsjbs
@harshwardhan2554 your TOEFL will hopefully help you. They are going to be concerned about the writing portions of your classwork. However, again, your math is very strong.
For an admission decision they are going to go off your IX-XI transcript as well as year XII courses. Your year XII marks won’t matter as much because they are typically received as part of the final transcript.
So, I think (please correct me if wrong!) that you are saying your grades are only official in year XII and that you are in the top 24% of over one million students in India. Not sure how that translates for purposes of admission to CSE. Class rank among students in the US would typically be much higher but if the curriculum in India is tougher than the Admissions people will know how to convert that.
Sounds like you applied to CSE and no other University of MN college (such as CLA)? That increases the risk of a waitlist rather than an outright admission to the U. But your application has many strong aspects to it so hopefully you will get in to your first choice.
Congrats on the U of IA admission and scholarship! That’s great news for you!
You mentioned that you won’t need a scholarship to UMN; however, you need to know that they are in the process of significant tuition increases for out-of-state and international students. The increases could be as high as 10% per year. Please make sure to google the news about that, and check out the other discussions on the UMN forum about tuition increases.
Good luck to you!
@JBStillFlying
Grades aren’t converted from Indian system to American system(or that’s what I heard).
And you are a bit wrong. Here it is like this India:
In classes IX and XI the school conducts, evaluates and gives results of exams of the respective class. In classes X and XII specific government body conducts, evaluates and gives result for those respective classes, although it is now optional for a X student to either get evaluated by government body or school but the result will be given out by the government in either case.
Here we get marksheet of 2 classes by school and 2 classes by the government. Usually we send a attested copy of results from class IX to XII or specified classes by the University but its not much specified here. Normally they ask for IX to XI if not graduated. Probably will mail to admission regarding which marksheet they require.
From what I heard (maybe I’m wrong) that in U.S. at the end the final transcripts sort of holds average from IX to XII but that isn’t the case here.
Also, 76 is percentage and not my percentile among the other students. Perncetile wise I might be in top 30 +/- 5. In XII they also gave subject perncetile in the result as grades along with marks. And I can’t judge the toughness of curriculum as I never saw the US curriculum but we are not offered AP in school.
Thnak you for your comments.
In the US, there is what is known as a cumulative GPA which is essentially a weighted average of your grades, usually on a 0-4 scale). The weights are the number of credits per class (usually one but sometimes more or fewer).
Will U of MN get your percentile rank?
If you are basically top 30% you would likely need a higher test score to be accepted; however, there is always a chance. You might not hear back from them for a bit. Be sure to keep us informed. Crossing my fingers for you!
@JBStillFlying
And here we don’t have such average of grades as in most Indian colleges, admission is based upon competitive exams or XII score or both
And percentile is not reported in the result.