Chance my Extracurricular Activities

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<p>Hello everyone!</p>

<p>I am a German student who toys with his goal to study at an Ivy college (especially Harvard,Yale,Columbia,Princeton,Brown). Moreover, Stanford, NYU Stern, UChicago are strong options, too. Currently, I am about to finish my high school career by taking the Abitur examinations, the German equivalent to the US high-school diploma.
As I know that the so-called EC's play an essential role in the admission process I would like you to rate my EC's so that I receive a realistic overview. I would like you to do the "standard" chance procedure .</p>

<p>Extracurricular activities:
- communal political commitment as member of the JuSos, the youth organization of the Social Democratic Party
- tutoring for pupils from socially disadvantaged families (Turkish,Arabic and slavic families);not only based on educational help as socialization and integration into society are omnipresent
- leader and founder of a network respectively NGO trying to combat the Turkish-Kurdish conflict in Turkey and partially in Germany actively
- 2 service trips to Anatolia where I helped harvesting and taught basic knowledge to the children as they do not enjoy education
- sports as fitness, football and basketball sweeten my leisure time; moreover I function as a teacher/coach for socially deprived children and disabled persons
- founder and leader of a debate and politics club , again trying to find solutions for communal problems
- I have worked at my father's firm which specialized in civil engineering where I had some organizational stuff to do
- playing Turkish guitar
-Prospectively, I toy with the plan of going to the Gaza Strip or Palestine in order to have a clearer picture of the Arab–Israeli conflict respectively its impact on the everyday life of the population there
- prospectively, I could gain an internship at the Turkish/German government or embassy</p>

<p>Probably, I will finish my high school career with a 1,2-1,4 Abitur which is equivalent to an overall A or A+, according to wikipedia (Academic grading in Germany - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia).</p>

<p>I do not know if a class rank/percentile system is available in Germany but my head teacher stated that I would be 1-4/160 people in my class which is pretty amazing as both my school is competitive and I am Turkish ( usually marked by failure in Germany).</p>

<p>Hooks: I do not know if Turkish people can be counted as URMs ( I rather tend to no), I am the first in my family to go to college/university</p>

<p>Now I would like to have your evaluation and comment on those points. I know that commenting on chances without SAT scores is kind of difficult but you could give a try for it. I would like to do a double major (political science/economics). So what do you think? Could I stand a chance for those top schools?</p>

<p>Thanking you in anticipation</p>

<p>Parkhead</p>

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<p>its hard to say without your scores. but so far, i think you have a decent chance.</p>

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<p>I agree. It’s worth applying. It’s a bit difficult being international though.</p>

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<p>I would be grateful, if you state some SAT scores of which you think they could make my application competitive at those top schools, considering the fact I am international.</p>

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<p>Parkhead, it does not matter that you are international or not. To the contrary, it means that your SAT should be even higher than the average. There is an unofficial quota of ~10% for foreign students at all top-mid range schools. From that number subtract the children of top ranking officials and politicians in their respective country (that will be accepted with significantly lower test scores), the children of top officials in international agencies, the children of UN staff around the world (UN benefits includes 35k full tuition for school, 8k room+board in the USA+ travel+health insurance, etc). The remaining space is for the average international student which means that you are competing with the any inhabitant on earth who is not a US citizen/permanent resident.</p>

<p>There is no leniency because one is a foreign student because there are many foreign students who score perfect 800 in their tests, including English and writing. I would also like to add for all these people who claim that there are no available EC in their countries and whatever. Ecs are available everywhere. The schools are looking for leadership traits. If you have them, you will find ECs, even in North Korea.</p>

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<p>[Common</a> Data Set (CDS) | Office of Institutional Research](<a href=“http://oir.yale.edu/common-data-set]Common”>Common Data Set | Office of Institutional Research)</p>

<p>Yale Common Data Set for 2011-2012</p>

<p>25th percentile
SAT Critical Reading 700
SAT Math 710
SAT Writing 710 </p>

<p>75th percentile
SAT Critical Reading 800
SAT Math 790
SAT Writing 800</p>