<p>AP: We dont have access to AP classses/ Examinations in our school, but I gave one anyway. Biology- 4</p>
<p>ECA's/ Awards:</p>
<p>: Member of Western Music Club for 6 years (won several competitions)
: lPlay the Guitar for 3 years (certificate of merit for exemplary performance)
: Editor of the Chemistry and Biology Magazine
: School Correspondent for 2 years
: Secretory of Youth Congress
: Writing a book which deals with societal pressures and burden on women
: Selected to Represent my country at an international conference in Singapore
: Participating in the International Award for Young People
: Started the Peer counselling club
: Voluntary work - Teaching kids Math, English and Science; Administrative work for UNICEF
: Debating, Poetry recitation</p>
<p>Essays: Should be decent. I'm a good writer</p>
<p>REally good EC’s, especially with the book and representative thing. To calculate your GPA, just average up all your final scores and divide by 25 (so like 95/25 would be a 3.8 GPA).</p>
<p>Good SAT II’s, so we can expect some decent SAT’s as well. Though honestly, I’d have a school guidance counselour/headmaster (w.e. it is in your respective country) write you a letter of recommendation stating the jr. year situation, and the touch competition in your school. Especially a teacher you know or something that can positively vouch for you.</p>
<p>The only obstacle I see is the GPA, but still, high/ to low reaches for most of the schools (the top ones are crapshots for everyone anyway)</p>
<p>Hmm, well it kind of depends on whether or not you need financial aid, if you do you are slightly screwed. Otherwise I would say that Dartmouth and Princeton are big time reaches, Chicago and NYU might be slightly high reaches and the rest are mostly matches.</p>
<p>Why do HS students want the opinions of other HS students regarding chances? HS students usually don’t have a clue (that’s why they ask!). But it’s nice to offer!</p>
<p>A lot of these are definitely reaches. Some of them because they’re so incredibly selective such as Princeton, Dartmouth, UChicago, NYU. Others because they’re geared against internationals - such as Texas - which dislikes kids from unranked schools in the state, dislikes out of state applicants more, and loathes internationals. Michigan’s got an international reputation - TONS of internationals apply there making it more difficult. But at UMinn Twin Cities, Colorado, Urbana Champaign, you’ve got good chances.</p>
<p>I offer this advice to every international applicant I see. Undergraduate studies in the US aren’t that worth it considering the money you put forth. Nearly every country has it’s own amazing prestigious universities. Consider applying there and coming to America for graduate school.</p>
<p>@ HONORLIONS - Thanks so much. I guess, my GPA for Junior year will really bring me down. But my counsellor in my recc will mention how incredibly tough junior year is in our school. @tjkidd2011 - I REALLY need financial aid. Above 95% atleast. @Nick567 - It cannot be converted to grades. Cause a 72% in my school amongst 1200 kids will still be better than 75-80% of the students. @IndianOptimist - Considering that I want to do major in Psychology, I dont really have too great a scope in India(I’m an Indian) Colleges here are good (only aroun 5-10 of them) if you want to study Med/Engineering.</p>
<p>(everything is harder for international students, sorry)</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton University - high reach</li>
<li>Dartmouth College - high reach</li>
<li>Colorado College - match</li>
<li>Chicago University - reach (depends a lot on essays)</li>
<li>University of Illinois, Urbana - not sure</li>
<li>Michigan University, Ann Arbor - match</li>
<li>Purdue University - reach</li>
<li>U. Minn, Twin Cities - not sure</li>
<li>NYU - match</li>
<li>UT Austin - in</li>
</ol>
<p>I’m sorry but being an international applicant applying for fin aid really hurts your chances. Also, the whole 72% is also bad, regardless of how difficult junior year is. This could be minimized if you could bring your rank up to 1-3 but merely being in the top 10% does not say much about how well you did comparatively. However, your ECs are pretty good. The best thing that I saw was the book you wrote…a possible supplemental material? Good Luck!! </p>
<p>ignore danktank’s post as he does not know what he is talking about</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton University- high reach</li>
<li>Dartmouth College - high reach</li>
<li>Colorado College - dunno enough abt</li>
<li>Chicago University - mid-high reach</li>
<li>University of Illinois, Urbana - target</li>
<li>Michigan University, Ann Arbor - high target</li>
<li>Purdue University - high target</li>
<li>U. Minn, Twin Cities - dunno</li>
<li>NYU - high target</li>
<li>UT Austin - high safety/low target</li>
</ol>
<p>GPA is far far too low (junior year)- sorry but for your schools there will be other kids who have that rigor of schedule and higher grades
for the schools that i know
Princeton- High reach
Dartmouth- HIgh reach
Chicago- reach</p>
<p>I suggest you consider more liberal arts colleges (LACs). Most of these small schools are not so well known to internationals, so you may have an admissions advantage compared to selective universities. Even Asian Americans would be considered Under Represented Minorities at some LACs. Examples of aid to internationals for 2009-2010:</p>
<p>School … Number of Awards/Number of Degree-Seeking Int’l Students … Average Award … (Cost of Attendance)</p>
<p>Colorado College … 56/69 … $44,966 … ($51K COA)
Macalester College … 211/231 … $31,419
Middlebury College … 204/257 … $42,511
Whitman College… … … $39,674</p>
<p>NYU … (institutional scholarship or grant aid not available to internationals)</p>
<p>Illinois … 2261/2510 … $14,697 … ($27K-$32K COA)
Michigan … (institutional scholarship or grant aid not available to internationals)</p>
<p>Sources: Common Data Set documents for each school, 2009-2010 except for NYU which posted CDS only through 2008-2009. No aid figures for international students were listed in the Texas or Minnesota CDS files.</p>
<p>As for your admission chances, that’s ultimately up to the admission committees. A little information: Chicago had an ~18% admit rate last year and 75th percentile M+CR SAT scores above 1500. Colorado College has had recent admit rates at about 30%, 1 in 4 admitted students in the top 1% of their HS classes, and 75th% M+CR SATs of 1390 (higher than most state universities including Texas, Minnesota, and Purdue, but slightly below Michigan and Illinois). When you are an international student who needs a lot of aid, and you are looking at schools that reject the majority of applicants, I’d suggest you might want your stats to be in the top 25% of an applicant pool to consider a school a “match”.</p>
<ol>
<li>Princeton University- reach</li>
<li>Dartmouth College - low reach</li>
<li>Colorado College - dont bother</li>
<li>Chicago University - yes</li>
<li>University of Illinois, Urbana - dont bother</li>
<li>Michigan University, Ann Arbor - dont bother</li>
<li>Purdue University - dont bother</li>
<li>U. Minn, Twin Cities - yes</li>
<li>NYU - Yes</li>
<li>UT Austin - easy</li>
</ol>