Hey guys, just wanted to know my chances at a couple of Universities I’m planning to apply to.
I completed my 9th and 10th at a competitive high school in California. However, due to certain family issues we were forced to relocate to India, right in the middle of the school year.
Anyway I’m planning to apply to the following:
Purdue University, Texas A&M, UT Austin, NYU, Georgia Tech.
My preferred destination would be Purdue. (I’ll also be applying to UC’s but their fees are way too high.)
GPA:
10th High School : (Weighted: 3.83) (Unweighted: 3.67)
11th India: Converting it to GPA using official conversion, (Unweighted/Weighted: 4.00) We didn’t have AP’s or anything btw
SAT Score: 1460 (780 in Math, 680 in English)
Extracurriculars:
100 hours of volunteering as a homework coach at the Community Library
Math Club and Programming Club Member in 10th
AP’s: (School had a rule of no AP’s during 9th, a maximum of 1 AP in 10th)
AP World History Score : 3
BTW, I’m an American Citizen.
My intended major is Biomedical Engineering,
If you guys could recommend me any other schools that I could or should apply to, please let me know. Thanks!
Really? That puts OP at a significant disadvantage for a number of colleges, if that’s the case. Can you give some examples of college sites that state that? (I know the college my daughter will attend distinguishes on the basis of whether you are a US citizen or green card holder, or not. The former are domestic. The “not” are international regardless of where they currently live.)
I can’t seem to find the exact quote on it, but I will keep looking later today.
My high school(in China) consists of 1/3 American Citizens, and a lot of my friends have asked admission officers for this issue. Most of the colleges(UIUC, Purdue, Emory, NYU, Stanford) responded saying that they will be put in the international student pool as oversea applicants.
Maybe for comparing scores etc, but not otherwise. NYU is one of the schools that states citizens and green card holders are domestics and everyone else is international, on its website and in person by AOs. (We are green card holders so I very specifically needed this question answered properly too.) It’s well known that many holistic colleges compare people at the same high school to each other during the application process, so I’m guessing that’s what @iwantcollegeplz means by “international pool”. But I can’t see that they would put a citizen at a disadvantage by putting them fully in the international pool - for example, for NYU, that would mean the applicant is then assessed on a need-aware rather than need-blind basis.
What do you mean by “more competitive”? Just that the acceptance rate is lower? If part of that is because internationals are usually not assessed need blind, that’s not as much of a problem for OP as for a true international. (Part of it is also sometimes that internationals seem to apply to schools that are often way too reachy for them than domestics because they often don’t have the kind of guidance domestic applicants have. Doesn’t sound like an issue for your school, but for others it often is.)
Purdue is NOT a safety for engineering or CS, where only 10% of applicants make the cut for direct admit. I am not sure about biomedical engineering, since that is a different department. However, one can’t determine whether or not the school is a safety only by looking at the school’s overall acceptance rate.
Just a caveat that the Purdue acceptance rate includes instate applicants. The stats for international students (still not clear to me how OP would be considered) is significantly lower.
Also, the number of applications continues to grow yearly so I see that acceptance number continuing to drop.
I would consider Purdue a match for this applicant but not a safety.
If you read though the acceptances thread you’ll find many accepted OOS engineering applicants with mid 1200 SATs. 1250 is the top 25%. So if you are in the top 25% of your class you have a very good shot.
