chances at competitive schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>International Student
Attending a suburban public high school, semi-competitive
Asian Female</p>

<p>Unweighted GPA (4.0 scale): 4.000
Weighted GPA (5.0 scale): 5.3906
Rank: 9/532 (top 1-2%)
SAT: 2250/2400
SAT subject tests: taking Literature, Math IIc, and US History in November
AP Scores: AP USH-5, AP Statisitcs-5, AP Eng Language-5, AP World History-4 (freshman year)
currently taking 6 AP courses (10 by graduation)</p>

<p>Academic achievements/Awards:
National Merit Semifinalist
AP Scholar with Honor
Honor Roll (9-12)
Who's Who Among American High School Students
National Honor Roll
National Honor Society
National Spanish Honor Society</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Dance (ballet, jazz, and lyrical) 9-12, including various performances
Math UIL (University Interscholastic League), 11-12. co-captain.
Mu Alpha Theta (11-12)
SAMOSA (STudents Achieving Multicultural Opportunities to Serve America)
Church youth group and religious activities (approx. 10 hours/wk)
NHS community service
PALS (assisting students in local elementary/middle schools)
Peer tutoring
Piano (9 years; Certificate of Merit Level VII)</p>

<p>Employment History/Summers:
-Employed at a local Restaurant (15 hrs/wk), mostly over the summer
-Worked at a clothing store at a local mall (8 hrs/wk), during the school year. sales associate/cashier
-Women in Engineering Program
-UT Honors Colloquium
-Classes at Austin Community College: General Physics I (A) and Intro to Speech Communications (A)</p>

<p>Special Circumstances:
-Due to family circumstances, my family had to move frequently. I attended 3 different high schools and had to readjust each time to an entirely new environment.
-Need financial aid </p>

<p>Colleges I'm applying to:</p>

<p>Stanford (SCEA)
Princeton
University of Texas at Austin
NYU
Columbia</p>

<p>Thank you so much for your help!</p>

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<p>oh and should i retake the sat’s one more time?</p>

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<p>Your test scores and GPA look pretty good. Being an international student could work against you depending on where you are from and how much aid you need. In my unexpert opinion, getting in will depend on how well you set yourself apart from everyone else applying. What have you done that has made you special? You have to make them believe that you are amazing enough and special enough to be willing to pay for you to go. If you can do that, you can probably get in.</p>

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<p>thank you for your input, JNT. i need to work really hard on my essays.
Anyone else?</p>

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<p>Stanford (SCEA)-Yeah, you might get in. Asian really works against you.
Princeton-Forget about it. Prolly not worth sending in the app. fee. Your good, except for one thing, your asian… Makes the pool that much harder exponentially.
University of Texas at Austin-Match
NYU-Match
Columbia-Slight Reach, again, because your asian, it ruins chances ALOT at tier 1 schools and ivy.</p>

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<p>i really liked princeton though. i visited the campus two summers back and i loved the school and the environment there. but like you said, i know its going to be REALLY hard to get into.</p>