Chances for all Ivies, Duke,Stanford & MIT.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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SAT Score - 1580
ACT Score- 35
Subject Tests - Physics 780 Maths 2 800 Chemistry 760
National Percentile of 99% in Stanford Achievement Test Series (7th Grade)
Introduced and Gave 4 lectures on Harvard’s C$50 Course in High School(Senior Year)
Member of the School Dramatics Group for 2 years
President of The Indian Cultural Society in the Senior Year
Head of the School Tech Team. Designed the annual school fest app and website.
Worked with Missionaries of Charity, an establishment by Mother Teresa.
Head Choreographer of the School Eastern Dance Team Sophomore year.
Worked on an (unpublished) Research paper in my related field with a current PhD candidate.
Attended a Summer Course at Harvard University
Above Average Essays.
Been a part of the top 5 in class every year received certificate of merit from the 2nd to the 10th grade. Twice awarded full attendance certificate.
Organizer and Choreographer of an annual dance festival in my community for last 6 years.
Won 5 school and inter school level quizzes
Twice winner of Inter school creative writing competitions.
Contributor to the school magazine every year.

Now comes the tricky part
In a class of approx 50,
9th Grade–>86% (class rank 3)
10th Grade–>98% (National rank 7)
11th Grade–>60% (class rank 25)
12th Grade–>65% (class rank 20)
Severe grade deflation at school.

2

Is the school in the US? Is it a private school or an elite public school?

3

The school is in India

4

They won’t care about your class rank in grades 9 and 10. Are you saying that your current class rank is #20 out of 65?

5

Also as an international - will you be applying for financial aid?

6

Yeah…Also, in grade 10, my national rank was 7,not class rank.

7

Yes what? Yes to class rank of 20/65, or yes to financial aid?

8

To both actually

9

Being ranked in the top 30% of your high school class is good. But I don’t think it will be enough to impress the admissions committees at the schools you are looking at. These schools only take a handful of internationals per year. Especially from India. Of the schools, only MIT and Harvard is need blind for internationals. Duke and Stanford are not. I would suggest that you add a bunch of schools where you can get some good financial aid packages.

Its good to apply to these schools, but the chances are like winning the lottery. Have a good backup plan in place.

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^Yale and Princeton are also need-blind for international students.