Chances for Top Schools

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Intended Major: CS
Country: India (US Citizen)
Gender: M
Ethnicity: Asian(Indian)
Income Bracket: ~$60000

Colleges:
Brown
Harvard
Cornell
Princeton
MIT
Stanford
Caltech
CMU
USC
UPenn
Harvey Mudd
Columbia
Duke
Rice
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern

Academics:
SAT I: 2300
Sat II: Math II: 780 Phy: 760 Chem: 760
CBSE 10th Grade: 10 CGPA (highest)
CBSE 12th Grade: 93-95% (expected)
AP/IB: N/A

Awards:
Various Olympiad Medals from India - (Not Very Famous)
Outstanding Certificates in ASSET (National Test)

ECs:
Paid writer on iWriter
Student Editor of National Magazine (CIQ)
Run my own blog about life
Times NIE (Times of India News in Education) Star Correspondent
Marathon Runner - Run 10K
Karate Blue Belt - Won 1st place in Inter-Dojo Competition
Varsity BBall and Captain of intramural basketball
Certificate for CS50x on edX
Developing an app for SIIRO
SIIRO Innovators - Group of Innovators from HS. Working on a project to help in the flow of ambulances in traffic.
Finished courses on Codeacademy.com - Web Development and Python skills
School Vice Captain
National Petitioner (change.org)

Job/Work Experience:
Writing Internship
CIQ
Tutor for Peers

Volunteer/Community Service:
Petitioning
Volunteer at School for Underprivileged

Summer Activities:
4 courses on edX
Sports
Writing Internship

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Many of MIT, Harvey Mudd and Caltech’s applicants have those test scores and are of similar nationality.
In your apps, your really have to make your personality and other non-academic achievements stand out. As for the rest of the schools, you have a good chance.

3

Bump…

4

Since you are a US citizen with excellent stats and EC’s, I believe you have a decent chance at many of those schools. USC and Rice will be for sure…the rest are low reaches or reaches.

5

Bump…

6

Look through your life to find any unique experiences that you have encountered for you to use on the essay. Great scores, great GPA, great ECs, but near perfect applicants like you get rejected in the thousands by the schools you mentioned.

Find some way to stand out among the thousands of Indian applicants who will also be applying to the schos you mentioned.

Nothing is guaranteed at any of these schools.

7

BUMP…

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None of these schools are “for sure.” You are competitive, but they are all reaches. My only concern is that you seem to have tremendous variation in the types of schools on your list with regards to size, local area, campus environment, and student body size. What do you want in a college experience aside from prestige?