Hey, I’m a female international student (Indian) applying for engineering at NYUAD and Georgia Tech for fall 2016 - environmental engineering at GT and general engineering at NYUAD. I already have an offer to study at University College London for environmental eng - my top choice - but I want something as a backup in case that falls apart. What are my chances?
Stats:
2000 SAT (I did only one attempt; won’t submit to NYUAD since they don’t require it)
8.5/9 IELTS
10th grade in state board system:
Aggregate 91.8%
English 92%
Math 94%
11th grade CIE AS Levels:
Math A
Physics A
Chemistry B
12th grade CIE A Levels predicted grades:
Math A*
Physics A*
Chemistry A
English A (AS Level)
School doesn’t give out ranks but I’m definitely in the top 5 of 80 students across all subjects; top in Math and English.
ECs:
City Women’s Golf Club, years 9 through 11
Rainwater harvesting project in rural areas, years 11 and 12
Rutgers Uni winter course on mathematical foundations of computer science, year 10 (15 hours a week for five weeks)
House Captain in the Student Council, years 9 and 10; voted Best Captain both years
President of school’s Elocution Society for English and three Indian languages; winner of the Forum of Free Enterprise Award for Public Speaking, years 9 and 10
Volunteer at a trust for street children teaching Math, English and Physics as well as organising educational excursions for them, year 12
Head Volunteer at a community project initiating waste segregation in the neighbourhood for the first time in cooperation with the local governing bodies, year 11 and 12
Awarded top grade at State Grade Drawing Examinations at two levels, Elementary and Intermediate. across six different art styles, year 9
Regular participant of various urban design thinktanks and environmental projects including the BMW Guggenheim Lab, years 9 and 11
Internship at social business division of a local investment fund, year 9
Youngest member of Press at a local MUN conference, year 11
Other:
Fluent in three languages (English, Marathi, Hindi) and am able to read and write in Sanskrit
Attended a school ranked 9th in international schools in India
Personal essay is about my outlook on the growing rape cases in my country
Mother is a PhD; father is an alum of the top school for engineering in India and the top school for business here as well.
I won’t be applying for aid.
For NYUAD, you will most likely get invited to CW, the interview round in Abu Dhabi. You will fall in love with NYUAD, but everything then depends on your interview and their observations of you. So yeah, you will definitely make it to interview, afterwards no one knows.
Why do I know this? I was admitted ED1 Class of 2020
NYUAD has a 3-5 % acceptance rate so it’s difficult for almost anyone
You do have a shot at Georgia Tech. However, UCL is an amazing amazing university. My sister is doing her master’s there currently and absolutely loving it!
@escapists, since you live in India, I would suggest that you try for admission to one of the five original IITs first… your dad may be suggesting likewise IITs are well recognized at the elite grad schools here in the US ( I went to HBS and my batchmate from IITB is the Dean there now). Having said that I do realize that it is easier said than done getting admission there. I doubt my D, who had admits to GTech, UCB and UMich for ChemE, would have made it to one of these IITs.
@i012575 , Will you recommend any of old IITs vs Purdue or GTech? Purdue or GAtech has so many resources and getting them into them is relatively easy compared to IIT
@i012575 Getting into IIT is impossible for her. Why? Because she is A level student and cracking IIT problems is going to be pretty horrible for her. IITs have acceptance rate lesser thn 2%.
Also, Universities in India have terrible infrastructure compared to their counterparts in the west.
I suggest her to stay in UK/US.
@emacs2015 , I would definitely recommend going with the old IITs vs the likes of Purdue/GTech. With the exception of MIT/Stanford/maybe Caltech, do not choose any US univ for Engg. over the old IITs. Spend a part of the money that you save to fund your post-grad studies (Engg./CS/MBA) at an elite institution in the US. Quite a few IITians are doing very well in the US, an example being the President of CMU [Subra Suresh], he is from IITM. All the leading US Engg. schools (UIUC/MIT/GTech/Purdue/UT, etc) are filled with faculty who have done their undergrad in one of the old IITs. So does even an Ivy like Princeton, incl. the Chair of the EE Dept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subra_Suresh http://www.ee.princeton.edu/people/faculty
@chem12geek, I am a big believer of building a solid foundation first. What IITs provide is just that in core Engg. education. What IITs lack compared to the better US univs is the lack of the latest facilities/infrastructure… not a deal breaker when it comes to undergrad studies in my opinion.
@i012575 I wasn’t all that keen on the IITs from the beginning due to the fact that I want to do environmental eng at undergrad - it’s hardly anywhere really and I’m not too keen on doing straight civil or chemical. Not to mention the rat race JEE has become these days.
@pallavijaniani Wow if I may ask what course is your sister doing?
She’s studying at the Masters level and is doing something related to social work and international development. She absolutely loves the university, the people and ofcourse the city
@Wilsonhsu1115 Thanks! Sorry to bother you again, but do you know when I’ll know if I’m invited, approximately? I have an internship with a government institute around the same time, so I’ll have to see if I can reschedule that in time.
@i012575 getting into an IIT is a big deal for Indians. Foreign students stand no chance in cracking the JEE. Also, you need a good infrastructure if you plan on doing engineering well. There is no point in sticking with theoretical knowledge.
