Chance me international?

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

Please chance me for UCLA, UCB, or any Ivies!

Indian female junior. High income bracket. International

1 AP exam: WHAP (5)

Full IB Diploma student. Predicted 43-44 in HL Lang Lit, Economics, History, and SL Maths, Bio, Spanish

GPA: 6.9 (all 7s in academic subjects but bad grades in PE lol)

Tentative SAT score: 1560, 800 in math

ECs and Awards

  • Bronze in regional slam poetry competition
  • Public speaking: won 1st (10th grade) and 2nd (9th grade) place at (regional? state level? not sure but over 200+ contestants from many different schools in Southeast Asia) impromptu competition
    -2 other forensics competitions but didn’t win award lol
  • Varsity debate/forensics
  • Scholastic Writing Competition: Honorable Mention
  • Leader of DECA chapter at school
  • leader of school’s Ted Ed club. We were invited to go to NYC (but the 'rona happened…) and our school’s club was nominated for the top 50 CAS projects by the IB. We have a wide outreach to many local schools in the community and our annual event gets an over 100+ people audience
  • In school’s competitive varsity MUN team
  • some small awards at local MUN meets
  • Mentor for middle school MUN, arranged and chaired MS MUN conference at our school
  • ranked top 14 in Scribe Writing competition (over 900+ submissions)
  • TA for IB Spanish (took the exam a year early)
    -two BTS fan accounts with 15.6 K and 10.2 K followers
    -many different academic awards from school
2

Are you fine with being full pay? The Universities of California (including UCLA and UCB) have very little financial aid for out of state students, which of course includes international students.

I think that you are a competitive applicant but these are definitely not safeties. Perhaps “reasonable reach” might be a guess at your chances.

In terms of “ivies”, I think that it would help you quite a bit if you know the differences between them, and know which top ranked universities would be a good fit for you.

3

Yes, I’m fine with the pay.
definitely don’t consider them safeties, but I really want to see if I stand a chance! It’s crazy because my IB predicted could take me so many places in the UK. US unis are pretty strange

4

US unis are inundated with thousands of highly qualified applicants and they look for more than just stats. With acceptance rates in the low single digits they are reaches for everyone especially without legacy or a hook.