chances as an international applicant?

[Jayadevvd]

I’m a Sri Lankan aspiring to become a student at Yale… 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…

[gibby]

My answer for Yale is going to be the same as it was for Harvard, although Yale does not have an international Office with statistics that I can point you to. FWIW: Yale’s freshman class is smaller, with about 1300 students, Yale admits about 130 to 150 international students per year (the same percentage as Harvard).

Most U.S. colleges limit the number of international students to around 10% to 11% of their incoming class. With a freshman class of about 1660, that means that Harvard admits about 160 to 190 international students per year – and most of those students come from Canada, The United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Japan, Korea and China.

If you go to the Harvard International Office Statistics page (http://www.hio.harvard.edu/statistics) and select from the pull down menu STUDENTS, SRI LANKA, HARVARD COLLEGE, there are -0- students from your country currently enrolled at Harvard. If you were to accepted, you would be the first student in 4 years to be accepted to Harvard College from Sri Lanka. Although your stats look great, with those kind of odds, your chances are terrible. Please apply, but realize how fortunate and lucky you will be if you succeed. Best of luck to you!