<p>International student.</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA 3.85 UW</p>
<p>Sat 2160
M 800,
Cr 680,
W 680 (9/12 Essay)</p>
<p>Sat II:
IIC 800,
Physics 770,
World History 700</p>
<p>TOEFL 287</p>
<p>AP:
Calculus BC 5
IB course</p>
<p>EC's: piano, track, members of some clubs, nothing that significant
Applying for FinAid</p>
<p>College list:
Stanford
Yale
cornell
Columbia
Northwest
UCB
USLA
University of Chicago
Wisconsin
UT</p>
<p>Thanks for any help!!</p>
<p>cool .... seems like a gud profile..... Get the other non-stats things work... and u r in with most .... But ecs ......bad....try harder on that one</p>
<p>what are you writing in your essay?</p>
<p>Ya ur essays matter a hell lot. get them to be the best.......</p>
<p>first four is very tough. keep that in mind.</p>
<p>Absolutely....they need perfect applicants....best in all of their applications</p>
<p>thank you for your messages.
Are following colleges safety ones?
USLA
University of Chicago
Wisconsin
UT</p>
<p>wrong USLA, correct UCLA</p>
<p>good stat, bad ECs, so
Stanford reach
Yale reach
Cornell slight reach
Columbia slight reach
Northwestern match
UCB match
UCLA match
Chicago safety match
UT safety match
Wisconsin safety match</p>
<p>I am concerned about your list. Places like Northwestern have very little money for financial aid for internationals. You might have a better chance focusing on engineering schools within the universities. I know that Cornell is looking for female engineering students.</p>
<p>Northwest, UCB, USLA, Wisconsin, UT
I doubt whether these schools provide need based aid to int'l.
Consider some other LACs like Laffayette, Hamilton... I suggest :)</p>
<p>Chicago is definitely not a safety. Grades alone won't get you in and your EC's are kinda week. They are looking for your intellectual interest. Your essay will count a lot.</p>
<p>UCB and UCLA can be tough as they admit less than 10% out-of-state students.</p>
<p>I presume you are from an international school which offers both AP and IB courses? Or are you in an IB diploma program ... if so, what's your predicted score?</p>
<p>thank everybody here.
i adjusted my college list as follows.
dreamlike univeristies:
Stanford
Yale
Ideal universities:
Cornell
Columbia
Chicago
Washington U
Safe colleges:
USC
Wesleyan U
Lafayette</p>
<p>by the way, predicted IB score 41-43/45.</p>
<p>How did you come across Wesleyan? Are you thinking of applying for a Freeman scholarship? You'd be competing against other top Chinese students. Otherwise, there isn't a whole lot of fin/aid available for internationals.</p>
<p>I would drop Yale and add Wellesley. You have too many reach schools. USC and Wesleyan are more like matches.</p>
<p>Applying for financial aid at cornell, columbia, washu and uchicago will put you into a very competitive pool because these schools are not need blind and have very limited budget for internationals. Wesleyan freeman is as competitive...because they take two ppl (one girl and one boy) from mainland each year. And...USC doesn't offer financial aid to internationals. So I advise you to think over your college list and explore more optioins. Good luck.</p>
<p>At those schools you have mentioned, grades and SAT scores do not matter a lot. Maybe you think because you have good SAT scores, you will be put into schools like Yale and Stanford. wrong!</p>
<p>Are you an intel living in the u.s
or are you an intel living in China?</p>
<p>well, i guess that doesn't really matter because it's tough both ways for you. China - lots of friggin smart smart smart students with stellar scores with basically no ecs, and nearly ALL want some sort of fin.aid.
In the U.S - you have poor Ecs. No leadership, only a member in various clubs. If you want to apply to top schools like Yale, you need to show passion and leadership in your ECs.</p>
<p>Ideal universities:
Cornell
Columbia
Chicago
Washington U</p>
<p>No. none are ideal for you. Especailly Columbia. They have an admit rate of 11% (nearly the same as Harvard) for u.s citizens. THink how low the number will be like for intels. Wash U is insanely competitive nowdays and they practically put most of the 'average' qualifers on waitlist so they would have lower admit rate, thus gaining prestige. From the pattern I have seen last year and the year before, Chicago does not look at numbers.</p>
<p>Safe colleges:
USC
Wesleyan U
Lafayette</p>
<p>USC likes intels and I think (THINK) they give intels aid. I also recommend more safteys like Rochester, florida, george washington, etc..
And go for the LACs which offer generous aid to intels.</p>
<p>Also, the UCs don't offer fin aid.</p>
<p>If the above is your whole profile, I def suggest including more safteys. If the above is not your whole profile, don't worry about my post.
Good luck!</p>
<p>First of all, as NoFX suggested - go for the LACs (I'm obviously biased on this, just look at my location!)
Your profile looks good, put some work into those essays and make sure you get some excelent recs and you're highly likely to get into some institution here.</p>
<p>Dreamlike universities:
Stanford
Yale
You're right, dream-like. Dream about them if that is what it takes to get that application file ready. But always be aware that it is a lottery. </p>
<p>Ideal universities:
Cornell
Columbia
Chicago
Washington U</p>
<p>Are you sure Washington U offers financial aid? Besides that, you have a good chance of getting into one of them.</p>
<p>Safe colleges:
USC
Wesleyan U - Freeman scholarship?
Lafayette</p>
<p>Do not use that "safe colleges" label anymore, just get it out of your head! There hardly is such a thing as a "safe school" for an international student looking for a full-ride (well, maybe Berea College in KY would qualify for that, though). Treat them right and they will be good to you, but you can be sure that the admission process will not be easy anyway. </p>
<p>As a general piece of advice, cast a wider net! Go into some LACs, they can present very good and unforseen advantages to students. Also, you deffinitely need to apply to more than 9 schools, in my opinion.</p>