chances for getting into Yale, Dartmouth, Georgetown, WUSTL, JHU, Cornell?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>URGENT!!!</p>

<p>I am a Korean student...
Lived in Sri Lanka (gr 1~6)
Currently living in China (gr 7~12)
lived outside of Korea all my life, therefore went to international school all my life, but fluent in Korean.</p>

<p>my school has IB but it is really crappy and small, so it didnt give me much of a choice in picking subjects.
Subjects i took:
Art SL, Chemistry SL, Chinese B SL, Math HL, English A1 HL, History HL
Grades ranges from 5~6. Never got a 4.
(kind of low, but my teachers are really harsh graders...)</p>

<p>SAT I total: 2210
Critical Reading: 690
Math: 780
Writing 740 (essay=11)</p>

<p>SAT subject tests:
Chinese w/ listening: 800
Math IIC: 760
World Hist: 730</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Student Council President (gr 12), Secretary in 11th grade, class representative in 10th and 9th grade
NHS member
Varsity Soccer (gr 10, 11, 12), Varsity volleyball (gr 9, 10, 11), varsity basketball (gr 12), varsity swimming (gr 9, 10)
Choir (gr. 9, 10, 11, 12)
Principal Advisory Committee (Student Representative for giving advice to the headmaster for picking the new principal. Gr. 11, 12)
Reading in english to kids in Chinese public library every sunday
Yoga
piano (private lessons since gr. 2ish.)
Flute (had about 2 private lessons, and learned to play it on my own)
Model United Nations
Basketball tournament scorekeeper</p>

<p>i have a lot more ECs, but i can only write 6 or 7 on the common application.. T.T</p>

<p>Awards:
EARCOS (East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools) Global Citizenship Award
Dolphin award (school mascot is dolphin. awarded for being good ambassador for school. won it for 2 years in a row)
Academic High Honor Roll
various other academic subject awards (art, mandarin, Theory of Knowledge, English, Science, Social Studies, math)</p>

<p>the academic awards dont even fit on the common application anyway, so there is no point, really...</p>

<p>Recommendations: really really good. got one from my math and Theory of Knowledge teacher, who was reallly nice. One from my english teacher.</p>

<p>intended major: international relations</p>

<p>Essay: i wrote about how three different worlds shaped me (Sri Lanka, China, Korea) and i guess its not bad but im really not sure</p>

<p>i am worried that nothing really distinguishes me... nothing is special about my application..
im applying to Dartmouth, Georgetown, Yale, WUSTL, JHU, Cornell and some others, already applied to UCLA but those are my main ones.</p>

<p>Is my writing score too low?
is my World History score too low for someone intending to study international relations?
What are my chances of getting into those schools?
am I "unique" enough?
and are asians over-represented in the schools i am applying to? (I know they are over-represented in UCLA)</p>

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<p>your chances are very very low because you are an intl applicant. Intl competition, esp from asian countries is extraordinarily tough. There are probably at least 1000 applicants, and 20 acceptances from Asia at a school like Yale. That is just a guess, but I know the asian populations there are very very low.</p>

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<p>I would say your chances are quite low. International applicant status is the main reason that drops your chances. Your scores are admittedly remarkable for someone who lived outside of the U.S., but for international applicants, colleges want only the top people who are certain to add something to their campuses.</p>

<p>That said, I would personally still apply. You never know what adcoms will see in you.</p>

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<p>I would apply. why not? It's tough though for international students since they only take about one thousand or so.</p>