I’m a Sri Lankan aspiring to become a student at Princeton. Do u think I have any chance of getting in?
Here are my stats
sat:-2310
Gpa:no gpa in Sri Lanka cuz university selection does not depend on ur school exams,depend fully on the public exams.
Public examinations: OL-8A 1B, AL-3A (top 100 in the country)
Awards/achievements :-royal institute of chemistry all island writing competition -2nd in the country
National competitions :- 2008 eastern singing 2nd in the country(Carnatic)
2010 1st in the province and district-eastern music(Carnatic)
2009 1st in the district(Carnatic)
Chosen to sing the national anthem at the commonwealth summit in Colombo
Extra curriculars:- Fully trained in Carnatic vocal singing
Partly trained in western classical singing
Member of the school Leo club…etc…
Yet to take sat 2 subject tests…
Not only Harvard but other ivies too…
My answer for all the ivies is going to be the same as for Harvard. As an international student from your country, your chances are terrible no matter where you apply – and it has nothing to do with your stats. It has to do with the fact that all the ivies limit the number of international students they admit and most admitted students come from other countries.
If you are looking for U.S. colleges that admit a larger percentage of international applicants, you should look through this list of schools: http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities/most-international
@gibby I have a question about that. Is that because there haven’t been too applicants from Sri Lanka? Or is it that they are deliberately not taking students from there? Maybe they don’t like the way they are taught?
Harvard, and other colleges, do not publish the number of applications from each country, so no one knows how many student’s in prior years have applied from Sri Lanka. I would think with HYP’s reputation among international student’s that it’s unlikely that no student’s applied from Sri Lanka.
Harvard, and the rest of the ivies, try to take at least one student from each of the U.S. states, however they don’t do the same for countries. Many countries have no students attending the college, including Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Aruba, Armenia, Azerbaijan etc. (I just went through the A’s, but you can do the rest the alphabet and find others.)
Your stats are good, I’d say! I would actually use the Sri Lankan thing as a diversity hook. That is to say, “You haven’t accepted anyone from my country in 4 years, so it makes me that much more diverse.” Your call.
EDIT: That was for Harvard, sorry. I can’t imagine Princeton has many Sri Lankans either.
Most students who take the local AL’s don’t apply to us schools because taking an A in the AL here is much more difficult compared to the London ALs ,so the number of students applying will drastically reduce…most of the students who do apply are from the upper middle and rich class who go to international schools where London AL 's are taught…
Actually in the last 10 years or so all 5 students who got accepted to Harvard are from the same international school where London AL’s are taught…they have much more scope to do extra curricular activities compared to government run schools as they have more funds…@calicash
Anyone
Anyone…what? You asked a question, @gibby gave you the correct answer. I’m not sure what else you want.