Black Bahamian woman who has top grades and AP scores . . . and who TEACHES CHINESE?
Assuming that your performance on the SAT/ACT is in line with the rest of your academic resume, you should be able to choose between offers from some of the most prestigious universities in the land!
Which is a big unknown, so one should not make any assumptions on scores
One can’t make that statement. The OP is international, so any URM advantage is more than offset by the international status.
Now if the OP were an African-American male with high stats and US citizenship or green card, then yes, the chances would be higher, IMO.
“The OP is international, so any URM advantage is more than offset by the international status.”
I would disagree with that assessment. In terms of the demographic ideology which predominates at elite US schools, the OP isn’t merely an “international”; rather, she falls into the highly desirable “marginalized / postcolonial / subaltern” category, and this strongly distinguishes her from, say, the daughter of a London banker or a Shanghai software entrepreneur. All international applicants are not created equal.
Doesn’t sound like her schooling falls into marginalized. Is this a public or private hs? And though she’s currently undocumented, we don’t know the family details.
More important, you don’t simply get into a top college with GPA, AP scores and being of some background . I’m curious why, if on a gap year, no SAT scores to-date, what she’s doing on this gap, the nature of the political internship, plus how the Duke of Edinburgh Award. Also note the ECs are debate, art, founding a non-profit (we don’t know what this actually does,) the internship, and two hs clubs, English and Chinese. The volunteer is Chinese school, not community work or advocacy, per se, with an adult organization. How did she become fluent in Chinese, which is more than taking school courses?
Adcoms will be looking for these details. And though her academics seem superb, there will be other applicants of her heritage.
While true, the bottom line is that the international undergraduate population at most top colleges is capped at the 10-12% level. For many of these colleges, the international acceptance rate is half the overall rate. The OP, a Bahamian, is asking about chances at Ivy League schools and similar. While past performance is not guarantee of future results, the current number of Bahamian students at Harvard, as an example, is zero.
http://www.hio.harvard.edu/statistics
But my original point was not about her chances, because I don’t chance (it’s pointless, particularly without test scores, IMO), but as a response to the posts that erroneously suggested that she would have her pick of colleges. The fact that she’s currently living in the US, whether legally or illegally, does not make her a domestic applicant; she will be disadvantaged in that sense. Also, aside from the small handful of schools that are need-blind for internationals, her FA need (if any) will also work against her.