Chance me! Ivy or not? :).. *ATTENTION CATCHER*

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey! </p>

<p>I'm an Indian student who has applied to all the Ivies (except Cornell...yea) , Duke and Tufts. [Applying to an Ivy is pretty mainstream you know] . Though there is nothing I can do now except sit back and wait for the results, I was curious to know what you people would think about my profile and chances.
Oh and once you're done reading, please feel free to respond with/without sugar coating your opinions. :)</p>

<p>GPA (UW) : 4.0 (just did the conversion)</p>

<p>SAT I - Got a combined score of 1910 the first time. Hoping to receive atleast 2100 this time. (Yes, I'm a terrible test taker...but you cant blame me. Sitting for 4 hours bores the crap out of me).</p>

<p>SAT II - Math 2 - 800, Chemistry - 720, Biology - 700</p>

<p>AP(s) : Didnt know what they meant till 2 weeks ago. But yea, courses in India are pretty strenuous on their own. :3</p>

<p>Major Awards : Best Orator, Best Student Merit Award, Promising Cricketer of the year,Best Speaker MUN .oh and 3 of my friends and I won a FULLY SPONSORED trip to London for a week for winning some radio play thingie...pretty cool, I guess. </p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
School Student body President for 2 years..(two different schools)
School(s) Cricket Captain (3 years)
Badminton Team
Dramatics and all...Acted in quite a few school plays :P
Science and Technology President for a year
Vocalist in school band, kinda won some awards..but its a band :)
Job Experience : None (paid), but I did volunteer to help at my mom's friend's summer school for KG children and the Spastic Society for a few days. </p>

<p>I'm not what you could call an 'eloquent' writer, but I do try and infuse my own writing style and my essays were pretty good considering that they were able to entertain and sometimes move people who read it. :)]
Teachers' Recommendations : They love me :') Were excellent.</p>

<p>Extra Stuff : I did try research projects on Bioplastics and all...did work well for like a month or so, but I didnt really complete it. :P </p>

<p>Course interested in : Biomedical Engineering. </p>

<p>Applied to (like mentioned earlier):
Harvard
MIT
Princeton
Yale
Brown
Columbia
Dartmouth
U of Penn
Duke
U of Chicago
Tufts</p>

<p>Thank you for reading and please, feel free to respond :)</p>

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<p>All almost impossible…:frowning: Even Im an applicant just like you and waiting, but from what i have seen of CCers here, Unless ur essays hold key…I really don’t know.
After all they are reaches for everyone…It is just that u don’t have anything that makes you stand out at these places.
Sorry…</p>

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<p>Thats what Im really confused about you see. People keep saying that you need something to stand out for you to gain admission to an Ivy… but like what? Some crazy international math olympiad? I’m sure MIT would love that. And quiverfox, you’re applying to all Ivies too?</p>

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<p>Nevermind. I just checked out your research project, the farmers’ circuit… well, you sure are badass :stuck_out_tongue: and hey, I’m way too sure that you’re going to Dartmouth. :)</p>

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<p>Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn - The highest level of reaches possible</p>

<p>Brown, Dartmouth, Duke, Chicago - High reaches</p>

<p>Tufts - Reach</p>

<p>Your college list is aiming too high for what you can get. You should have tried a few lower level, yet brilliant schools such as CMU, Umich and a few safeties too.</p>

<p>Your EC’s aren’t strong, so an SAT score of at least 2200 is required for you to get in to any of those.</p>

<p>I know people with 4.0, 2300+ who have been rejected from schools like tufts, goodluck though</p>

<p>You seem good at like sciences and stuff, you should try out the ACT. I couldn’t get past 1900 in the SAT but the ACT really did help mee.</p>

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<p>let’s see:) Anyways, I applied to MIT,stanford, UC’s too.I hope I get into any of the 4 i Applied to atleast…including Dartmouth:)I just don’t like the rest of them I guess:)</p>

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<p>^ Dartmouth is an IVY!!! :)</p>

<p>@Harrismacha - All the stuff you mentioned “Best Speaker, Promising cricketer, etc…”. What level are they at? School, Regional, State, National or International?? </p>

<p>And did you mention your research on Bio-plastics anywhere in your app??</p>

<p>Mind you a jump from 1910 to 2100 on the SAT is not that easy, if you’ve got to improve on CR & Writing to manage that!!</p>

<p>Anyway, from another Indian here(with no good ECs) who pretty much applied to all the places you did - You’re chances are very slim!! :/</p>

<p>Mind sharing your unconverted GPA/Marks??</p>

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<p>@quiver - Ohh come on! :stuck_out_tongue:
You make my comment look crazy now!! :stuck_out_tongue: :D</p>

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<p>It’s not looking too good bud, but far stranger things have happened. Get your SAT score up to a 2200+ and you have a decent shot at Penn (they love Indians), Chicago (they do too, but they don’t offer BME) etc.
Keep in mind that some schools that you are applying to do not offer your intended major!</p>

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<p>U may still have a good shot if your grades/marks are awesome.:slight_smile: Oh and sorry @rishav</p>

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<p>If you could raise your SAT and provide some essay support for an AC in which you have passion, you would strengthen you apps at all of these schools. You should add a safety. best of luck.</p>

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<p>Here’s another Indian take on college admissions. My son has pretty strong stats 3.83 UW/4.27 W GPA in IB diploma program. His ACT score is low by Ivy standards (30), but he has made up for it with a very compelling life story as it relates to his health and how he has been a healthcare advocate (for which he received a letter of rec from a very prominent physician at an Ivy med school, with whom he worked this summer). If he is admitted to any of the 4 Ivy League schools he applied to, then I will be able to share with the CC community that test scores don’t always determine admission. Well, at least they didn’t seem to be a big issue at Boston College, University of Michigan (OOS) and UNC Chapel Hill (OOS). I truly wish all of you the best of luck in your endeavors. This is a very exciting time in your lives.</p>

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<p>^ Ok, so I don’t want to sound harsh - but believe me when I say this, there is nothing like a medical/personal/emotional issue when it comes to being a backup for not so great SAT scores!! Now I’m not grieving that I didn’t have any such issue or anything as such. All I am saying is that whenever you see an applicant with average SAT/ACT scores (2000/30?) being accepted to an Ivy or equivalent… 99/100 times that applicant will either be an URM/ a recruited athlete/ a massive achiever(major inventions…)/ have a personal issue!! </p>

<p>So it again comes down to the same thing, you either have a good SAT score or something extremely brilliant to make up for it!! :)</p>

<p>@PsychoDad10 - ^ This is how I see it and what I infer from the various decision threads from previous years…</p>

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<p>With Ivy’s I realised anything is possible…last year there were 2 RD applicants to Harvard from my region. One had a 2100 SAT, straight A student and quite a well rounded student (very atheletic, ran 100m in about 10.5 and was the lead actor in many productions blah blah blah…your typical quintessential jock) SAT subject test scores were Math L2 800 and physics 780 but he got rejected. The other got accepted with a not-as-impressive-ec-record and an SAT score of 1830 (well he had perfect scores for his subject tests Math L2, Physics and Chem)…the one who got accpeted apparently had very good essays and did an amazing autobiography in his “additional information” section. So I guess it’s about inspiration and charm too…</p>

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<p>Hey @rishav u are soo discouraging me…;)</p>

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<p>^ @quiver:-If you wouldn’t have had your agriculture product – It would’ve been tough!!
But with that, read my exception -“major invention”!! :slight_smile:
If you were able to put across what you have done, you are surely going to be in at at least 1 of your top choices!! :D</p>

<p>Infact, I’d say that you have a better chance than me, even though my SAT scores 200 points or so higher than yours… Just because I don’t have that something that makes me different!! :(</p>

<p>@ChavXO - The 2100 rejection is not a surprise. Harvard’s applicant pool is good enough for them to be picky & choosy! :slight_smile:
About the 1830(assuming you aren’t a ■■■■■… sorry but you just can’t be too careful :p)
– Maybe there was something about his ECs that the college needed that year or maybe the autobiography really got across to the adcoms. Once again, two things to note here -

  1. Not everyone writes a autobiography or something similar( And the chances of such a thing ****ing the adcoms is greater than it impressing them!)
  2. That was an exception but not every applicant with a standard SAT score is an exception!!</p>

<p>:)</p>

<p>That said, there is no harm in applying(unless it hurts you financially) because you never know until the fat lady sings!! :stuck_out_tongue:
Though keep some safeties on your list!! :D</p>

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<p>From my experience, SAT scores are CRAP!
I know a student from CCers who got 670 maths, 540 CR and 570 writing
and 640<SAT II subjects<680.
He applied to Cornell ED and got selected.
These are not UK unis that use minimum cutoffs…They select randomly. Both type of unis have different standards of selection procedures yet they are still amazing!
So if you have high SATs thumbs up and low SATs still thumbs up. Based on the statistics of those who got accepted…I cannot at all’reliably’\ say whether you can get accepted or not. I will only say BEST OF LUCK SEXY AND HIPE U DIDNT SELL YOURSELF SHORT!!!</p>

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<p>Hey@rishav I was kidding. I still don’t really know If i even stand a shot within our SMALL country!!</p>