Chances at RD. Will chance back

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Colleges:
Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Brown, Dartmouth, Yale, UPenn (M&T and SEAS), Cornell (Engineering), Columbia (Engineering), Carnegie Mellon (SCS), Yale-NUS, Vanderbilt, Drexel, Northwestern, JHU, Duke.

International student, male, FA needed.
Major - CS

Stats:
– 800 Math L2, 800 Physics. (Single Sitting)
– SAT 2100
– 4.0 GPA (Rank 1/500; Toughest course available)
– APs aren’t offered at my school

ECs:
– Manage two of my own tech startups, one of which I founded with a friend and in the other, I’m the sole founder. Overall employ 30 people and raised money. Also received significant funding (approx USD 15000) from prominent investors. Helped people in disaster recovery process (floods in India) through one of my startups. One of my e-commerce startups has global outreach with clients in Europe and North-America.
– Founded CS Club at my school to teach CS (programming, app development, web development and tech entrepreneurship) to like-minded peers. Organised Hackathons and Pitch-In competitions in my city.
– Internships at two MNCs with research in prominent global products (Mercedes-Benz, Airbus) related to road safety and pedestrian safety tech; Internship at another MNC with projects in SAN Systems and Cloud Computing
– Tech Head at a prominent NGO in India with nation-wide presence (in more than 200 cities), conducted workshops for underprivileged children to teach them about basic road safety
– Teaching CS and Math at a neighbouring school for underprivileged children since last 4 years
– Spoke at a UN Global Compact conference (one of the keynote speakers) on the issue to Sustainable Development in Business for Entrepreneurs
– Music club (President), CS Club (President), Debate and MUN Club (Member)
– Senior member of the student council at my school
– Played lawn tennis and swimming

Awards:

– IIT-B Techfest (one of the largest and most prestigious tech tests in our country) - Robotics and Embedded-C finalist
– International Rank 2 (National Rank 1) at International Math Olympiad
– Some state level examinations (which aren’t that significant)
– Quite a lot of school awards (award for ranking first (overall) in junior year, award for highest grades, best all-rounder etc.)
– GCSE High Achievement Award - World Topper in Additional Mathematics
– State Topper in World History

Essays:
Common App essay: 9-10/10 (Wrote about how I dealt with my dad losing his fight to cancer, how it transformed me)
Supplementary essays: Put a lot of work into them

Recommendations:
Counsellor: Knows me since quite a lot of years, pretty sure it’s great
Math teacher: Knows me pretty well. Considers me one of his best students and all
Physics teacher: Same as above. Perks of killing it in school
Additional Rec: From one of my internship mentors. He told me that he would write a really good rec.

Thanks and have a great day!

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Lol you’ll get in.

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What country are you applying from?

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Hey! I’m applying from India. @usualhopeful

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Your SAT score is low, otherwise great ECs and scores(apart from SAT). You have a good chance at all schools though. I wouldn’t be surprised if you get in to most of these schools(provided your essays and recs are great).

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@PureMathIsFun That’s somehow pleasing to hear, but considering that I got deferred from Columbia in ED, I’m not so sure about my chances.

Will chance you asap. Thanks!

P.S. I think I know you (the doge meme guy).

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First of all your GPA and Class rank are obviously tremendous! Congrats on that you must’ve put in a lot of hard work! Secondly, your ECs are also very impressive and I think they could make you stand out. It also sounds like your recs and essays were great. On the other hand I’m sorry but 2100 is going to be low for almost all of these schools it doesn’t mean you won’t get in it’ll just be a lot harder. The other thing you have going against you is you’re applying from India and you need financial aid. Being from India is difficult because there a lot of other top notch students applying to the same schools you are who probably scored higher on the SAT international applicants just face a higher level of competition due to the limited spots each school has to offer. Additionally I might be wrong on this, but I don’t think all the schools you applied to are need blind, meaning they will see you need financial aid which could put you at disadvantage. I disagree with the above posters who are saying you’ll get in or you have a good chance because the reality of applying to schools of the caliber you did is that no one has a “good” chance. Each year plenty of top notch students get rejected from these schools the best anyone can say is you’re competitive. I think you should get into Drexel and Haverford is close to a match as well. For everything else your GPA, rank, ECs, LoRs, and essays should make you competitive but applying as an international who needs financial aid with the SAT score you have will make things challenging I could see you possibly getting into a few, but as long as you temper expectations you should be fine. Best of Luck!
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holy crap these are amazing stats u will def get in a bunch of great places

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Goddamn it! I hate when I see perfect resumes and stats on here; it just makes me worry even more.
Terrific EC’s and awards. I would definitely not worry: you have a high chance of getting into many of the top schools.

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