Chance me Please!!!

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SAT I (breakdown):1760(M-670,CR-570-W-520) (reappearing for October sat.)
SAT II:
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):Salutatorian
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Grades in 9th=82%(ICSE)
Grades in 10th=87(ICSE)
Grades in 11th=70%(ISC)
Grades in 12th=89.25%(2 rank/145)(ISC)

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):

  1. Cracked NCO (By SOF and 125 International rank and 4 in city).

2Various national Level Robotics Competitions organised by IIT’s in their Technical Festival.

3.Ton’s online courses from Coursera,codecademy and EDx .

4 2 years High School Theater

5.Android App Developer(not posted anything though)

6.Received 8kyu.belt in karate.

7.Represented my school in InterSchool Table-tennis in 9 standard.

  1. President of Computer Club at my School.
  2. I was appointed in my school's student Council twice.

10.Play Keyboard and Guitar and did many shows in my city.

  1. Co-editor of a technology website ranked under 7000 on Alexa

12.Headed my high school physics project team .

13.Selected for my school’s Environmental Drive(Green Hope Program)

Job/Work Experience:

1.Interned with school psychological counselor for 2 months

2.Interned with local computer technician(I have a great essay for it)

3.I tutor 2 kids in my building for free(Obviously because they are not able to pay for it)

4…Did community work at my city’s School for Deaf and Dumb

5.Interned with local software company for 2 months

Summer Activities:
Nothing Good
Essays (rating 1-10, details): I don’t know how to rate it but anything between 7-8
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): Very Good.9-10

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep. can pay around 20-25k per year (including loans)(I know it’s my weakest point after my miserable sat score)
Intended Major: Computer Engineering
Country: India
Income Bracket:<35000$
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Nope

Colleges applying to: I have no idea.

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How do you expect people to chance without telling which colleges you want?

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Well its actually more of “suggest me some colleges” Sorry for the misunderstanding.

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@KillerCroc Are you on a break year? Better try U of Cincinnati, U of Louisiana etc… Also try for those Cal State chain of colleges.

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@Agion135 yup I am on my break year…from what I heard state universities do not give scholarships…

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It’s not that State univs don’t give scholarships. Generally state univs don’t give financial aid to international students but they do hand out merit based scholarships. Although a scholarship is a kind of fin.aid, there is a slight difference. Financial Aid is provided based on your family’s income while scholarship is purely based on your gpa/test scores.

Also you might wanna Hook them with your essay ;D Essays matter a lot.

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@KillerCroc The universities I mentioned do give scholarships if based on your SAT/ ACT scores. Try to improve your scores by retaking the tests. Even I’m on my break year. I scored 27 on ACT last year and made into some decent colleges. I am retaking them and will apply for next fall.