<p>Hello,
I am just another senior brooding about coming future of applying to colleges.
I am international student(not US citizen) studying in US.</p>
<p>So,,,, here's school I am looking at! Looking at Chem, chem engineering
ED: probs Dartmouth
ED2: not sure... Maybe Vanderbilt?
Johns Hopkins
Notre Dame
Rice University
Washington University</p>
<p>I will be happy to consider some other fantastic college recommendations</p>
<p>And....
GPA: 4.0 uw 4.83 w rank 1
5APs so far, 3 next year
SAT: 2240( taking again in october, hoping for 2300+)
SAT2: us history 760 math2 770 taking chem in november
EC: band, musical orchestra, swimming all for 3 yrs
Volunteer at Korean hospital for 2 summer
Internship at local(us) hospital for mentally disabled
Volunteer work at "rubbish heap" town in Indonesia--quite literally, garbage town cuz they collect garbage for living............sad
Fundraising in school for those living in garbage heap.. So I guess a founder/president for this activity.
NHS treasurer, Mu Alpha Theta(not sure, but probably can get some leadership position next year)
NSE bronze medal.. If that counts as anything ;)
World concerns conference, tutor a girl from hope house(house for victims of sex trafficking)</p>
<p>I guess that's it......
I will be applying for FA in every school
Please, please chance this desperate senior!
Thank you guys!;)</p>
<p>Your Extracurricular work seems excellent and very altruistic. That “garbage town” incident could make an excellent essay.</p>
<p>Your SAT’s are not amazing, but aren’t horrible either. Your GPA is excellent. The only concern here is that the international applicant pool is extremely competitive. However, I don’t know how true this is for schools outside of HYPS, which have famous reputations around the world, and thus receive a plethora of applications.</p>
<p>I think you have a great resume and deserve to get into your top choices, and I also think you’ve made some smart decisions on which colleges to pick. </p>
<p>Dartmouth and Vanderbilt are Reaches, I’m not sure how much of a “fit” notre dame is, Johns Hopkins High Match, Rice and WUSTL also High Matches.</p>
<p>Chance back?: <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1508837-chance-princeton-upenn-jerome-fisher-ivies-etc.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1508837-chance-princeton-upenn-jerome-fisher-ivies-etc.html</a></p>
<p>Bump
I need some more thoughts please!</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins-Reach(Need higher SAT score def)
Notre Dame-?
Rice University-?
Washington University-Reach
Vanderbilt-Reach</p>
<p>Sadly, your status as an international student will hurt you in most if not all of these school choices, due to the fact that even though they are not IVYS, they are still damn good. lol.</p>
<p>Chance me back? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1519772-chances-cooper-union-i-will-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1519772-chances-cooper-union-i-will-chance-back.html</a></p>
<p>JHU-reach
ND-low reach/ high march
Dartmouth- reach
Rice- low reach/ high match
WashU-reach
You have really good stats and ECs but as an international student who needs FA, it’ll be way harder- colleges want international kids who can pay full price because they get less funding for international kids </p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1518169[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=1518169</a></p>
<p>Dartmouth-reach
Vanderbilt-low reach
Johns Hopkins-high match/low reach
Notre Dame-high match
Rice University-high match/low reach
Washington University-low reach</p>
<p>Bump!
Need some more help:(</p>
<p>Those stats and record make you a credible candidate at ND, but they tend to look for a highly involved, active student (though breaking into 2100+ range will help – few students we know were admitted to ND without 2100+ or 33+ scores). Sounds like you have the foundation for some interesting stories to tell in your essays, but if you are serious about ND, you want to really spend time on the web etc, reading about the school culture in order to write essays that will show what ND means to you. </p>
<p>As a parent who has been through this, I would describe all of your identified schools as reaches – any school which admits 25%, or significantly less, of the applicants is not a match or safety for anyone. Well-qualified students are rejected every year from those schools, whose records seem, to outsiders, no different from the admitted students. </p>
<p>Work on identifying your safeties – Purdue and Case Western might be matches or safeties, I don’t know enough about engineering admissions to identify the difference for those schools. Similarly, another school to look at might be Engineering at Univ Illinois Urbana Champagn – I don’t know if that is a match or not as students apply for direct admission to Engineering and stats at UIUC Engineering are much higher than Arts and Sciences (where my son had applied and was admitted). </p>
<p>Again, as a parent, my view is that no top 20 university or college is a match or safety because so many well-qualified applicants are rejected. Your records might qualify you for serious consideration, but beyond that, there is no way to predict. Matches and safeties need to be pulled from the next tier down, for high stat kids.</p>
<p>@midwestern i have mentioned that my current sat score is 2240, thus higher than 2100. Would that make any difference?</p>
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<li>Research about the school and see if it fits you. If not, -20% chance.</li>
<li>SAT/Subject doesn’t need to improve if you DON’T have enough time. If you are free, just take another shot</li>
<li>You seem generally nice and ok. where do you live? if you live in china perhaps you’re facing huge huge stress, if you’re living somewhere else you’re facing less stress…it depends. (for example, 3000 applied to MIT from china, and only 10 got accepted, whereas in Hong Kong, 5 got accepted but only 200 or something applied)…</li>
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<p>You should start with self-evaluation. Think about who you really are, what your strengths and weaknesses are, where your passions are etc. You seem generic in terms of academics (not saying they are bad, but just typical). You should thus show the universities how you are qualified by focusing on your ECs. To stand out, you need to have a good essay at this moment. To write a good essay, you really need to self-evaluate and write a really eye-grabbing and self-conscious one.</p>
<p>If you have some time, please leave some comments:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1522028-chance-mit-cornell-cmu-etc-will-chance-back-d.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1522028-chance-mit-cornell-cmu-etc-will-chance-back-d.html</a></p>
<p>Pcollege, sorry, I read too quickly – yes, your SAT score should put you in the ballpark at ND. I read it as 2040, my mistake.</p>
<p>Bump more opinions plz</p>