Chance my Ivy League Resume

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a rising senior from a top - 10 school in Sri Lanka and would like to apply to some of these elite schools in USA.
I have literally no Safeties , because I would rather study back home or in UK if I don't get into one of these colleges.</p>

<p>My final college list is :-</p>

<p>Yale
Princeton
Columbia
UPenn Wharton
Dartmouth
Brown
Cornell
UC Berkeley Haas
NYU Stern</p>

<p>I would either apply SCEA to Yale or ED to Columbia</p>

<p>Major - Econ (or Econ / Finance double major)</p>

<p>SAT 1 - M: 800 CR:790 W:790
2380 (1 Sitting)</p>

<p>SAT 2 - Math 2 : 800 World History : 790 </p>

<p>School Grades : they are letter grades , don't know how to covert into American GPA . If anyone can convert them into GPA that will be great.</p>

<p>Grade 9 -
Maths - A+
Physics / Chem / Bio - A+
Social Studies (History/Geo) - A
English - A+
Tamil - A-</p>

<p>Grade 10 -
Maths - A+
Physics /Chem / Bio - A
Social Studies - A+
English - A+
Tamil - A</p>

<p>Grade 11 -
Maths - A+
Physics - A+
Economics - A+
Accounting - A+
Business Studies - A
English - A</p>

<p>Grade 12 - in grade 12 we get % marks , am expecting above 95%.</p>

<p>Class Rank - 2/184</p>

<p>ECs :- </p>

<p>Interned at local Honda dealership as a Salesman (1 month )
Interned at a Bank , learned about financial accounting (3 Weeks)
Soccer (9-12) have played at State Level and won many awards for school.
Guitar ( British royal School of Music - Level 8 , the highest level) Played various concerts in and out of school.One concert was played on national TV. (playing since 4 grade)
Drums ( royal School of music - Level 3) playing since 9 Grade.
Basketball - Inter School 10-12
Marching Squad - Squad Leader
Mountaineering - have climbed 4000+ metre peaks in India last summer.
Model UN (Vice President) , won 4 awards at National Level.
Deputy Head Boy of school(Student Govt)
School Orchestra - Vice President
Economics Club - President
Have won 3 Maths Olympaids at national level.
Community Service (tutoring kids, cleaning parks etc ) - 100 hours
Debate Club - Vice President (2 awards)
Scuba Diving Course (2 Months) with certificate, had to give exam.</p>

<p>Recs - Should be really good especially from math teacher.
Essays - Amazing ! (Hopefully)</p>

<p>income - Around 200k (financial aid not needed)
Hooks - URM , Sri Lankan ???
Languages - English , Tamil , Sinhalese ,French</p>

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<p>your stats are really impressive, you have a decent chance, but again there are never any guarantees.
You have the highest chances probably with Cornell, UC Berkeley, and NYU</p>

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<p>Awesome scores and ECs , you have a good chance and should get into a few of them but as they are mostly Ivies , no one can say.</p>

<p>Yale / Princeton/ Wharton -reaches
Columbia /Dartmouth / brown - low reaches
Cornell - match / low reach
NYU/ Berkeley - match</p>

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<p>URM: “Currently includes African Americans, Mexican-Americans, Native Americans (American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians), Pacific Islanders, and mainland Puerto Ricans”</p>

<p>Sri-Lanka does not count. </p>

<p>American GPA scale:
A (and A+ at most highschools): 4.0
A-: 3.67 </p>

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<p>@tola2015‌ Thanks for the conversion scale. Hmmm so I’m unhooked :stuck_out_tongue: </p>

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<p>I would say Berkely is a reach for you: <a href=“Student Profile - Office of Undergraduate Admissions”>http://admissions.berkeley.edu/studentprofile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Admit/Apps: 1,356 / 13,260
Admit rate: 10.2%
The CA resident/Out-of-state applicant admit rate was: 18.9%/20%</p>

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<p>BTW if you are applying through these schools through the common application (idk how internationals apply) you can only list 10 extracurriculars. </p>

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<p>@tola2015‌ YeAh gonna narrow the list down. btw what do you recommend applying Ed to Columbia or SCEA to yale ,with my stats and all.
I’ve visited Columbia and liked the NYC feel along with proximity to Wall Street for internships etc. but have not visited Yale and won’t have a chance now. Also I think I’ll have a better chance for ed Columbia than Yale.</p>

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<p>Your stats are impressive! I would say you have a great chance. </p>

<p>Suggest to add Duke to your list. Good luck!</p>

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<p>Yale SCEA is pretty much as hard as Columbia ED. No one can differentiate that for you tbh. Since you can only list 10 ECs on your CA, you need to take out some of your ECs</p>

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<p>Lols I like how they have cappex at the bottom of the link that @tola2015 provided. Cappex is so inaccurate. Btw, most high schools in the US gives 4.0 to A-'s as well</p>

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<p>@sgopal2 Yeah I am surely going to add Duke. Their Econ department seems to have a great reputation and faculty.</p>

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<p>@classof2018app I have never heard of a A- getting an 4.0 weight. Most schools follow the regular 4.0 scale with a A- being a 3.67 or sometimes a 3.7. You can even type into google GPA scale (I just did) and no results popped up with a 4.00 being an A-. So I wouldn’t use the word MOST in your post. And if a school follows a 4.0 scale, I personally think colleges would continue weighing a A- at a 3.67 even if the school weighted it at a 4.00.</p>

<p>@Mudbloodprince97‌ since you have already visited the Columbia campus and liked it I would say that you should apply there ED. You could apply Yale SCEA and realize you don’t even like the campus later on or that the school doesn’t fit you. I would say stick with your gut. </p>

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<p>My school weighs any type of an A as a 4.0 and I know of many other schools that do as well. But they’ll see your transcript so it’s not a big deal. But I agree that some colleges just use their own scale because all high schools do it differently. </p>

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<p>My school also weighs A- as a 4, but I think the colleges will recalculate it anyway they please…</p>

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<p>You don’t have a great chance at any of these schools. You are an international students and that’s really just how it is. They are all high reaches. Also, I think you should really consider what it means to be full pay. At UPenn, the cost of attendance this last year was $68,000. When you include the cost of transportation (which is ridiculously high between England and American), you are actually looking at about $75,000 every year, which is extremely hard with a $200,000 yearly income. But anyway, I think you should apply for aid at schools like Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth. They have need blind admissions for international students and meet full need for international students. Being full pay wouldn’t improve your chance of getting in. So, it is very likely that you could end up cutting the costs of those 3 schools by around $20,000 if you get in. Please consider that :-)</p>

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<p>What’s with the large space at the end lol. Anyways, I say you have a solid chance at most of schools (above average). Did you compete at the IMO for 3 years!? Because that would be amazing. Good luck!</p>

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<p>@tooty44 OP is an international student. Every international student automatically has the decks stacked against them unless they’re in the royal family for their country or something.</p>

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<p>@tola2015 I have never heard of a high school that weighs down an A-, but I’m sure that there are some. You need to calm down</p>

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<p>@Classof2018app‌ Maybe it’s a regional thing? Often on here I see people will have less than 4.0’s because of a few A-s. But it depends on the high school.</p>

<p>If you still don’t believe that an A- isn’t a 4.0: <a href=“How to Convert (Calculate) Your GPA to a 4.0 Scale – BigFuture”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;