<p>Hi there,
I am an American Citizen currently attending high school in Pakistan.
I have 10 A's in O Levels, 4 A's in AS Level and only a few B's on my transcript.
Currently i am taking Maths, Accounting ,Economics and Business Studies.</p>
<p>SAT SCORE~ Around 2000~ (M750 W680 C600)
SAT 2s~ MATH 2C- 780, US HISTORY 700</p>
<p>My school doesnt rank but i believe im in the top 10%.</p>
<p>EC's:
Vice Pres- Human Rights Society
Head- Photograph Club.
Internship over the summer at a bank.
Yearbook Editor
Tennis (2 years)
Squash (2 years)
Basketball (3 years)
Science Club
Conservation Society
Art Club
100+ hours community service-taught the physically and mentally handicapped.
School Drama
I've won many art and photography competitions as well.</p>
<p>I have excellent counsellor and teacher recommendations. My essay looks good too.
What are my chances at Brown, UT Austin, U of Mich, U Chicago, NYU, USC, UC Berkeley, BU, Northwestern, TUFTS and LSE,UCL,Warick(UK)?
And will be considered as an international applicant eventhough i am a US Citizen?
Btw, i am not applying for financial aid (will this increase my chances?)
i am plan to major in Economics.
Any help would be appreciated.</p>
<p>You would be considered as an Domestic applicant; not applying for Fin. aid surely increases you chances. You seem like an above average applicant, you grades are fine but your SAT score is a bit low. ECs are also ok but nothing extraordinary.
Reaches:Brown, UT Austin, U of Mich, U Chicago, NYU, USC, UC Berkeley, Northwestern
Matches:BU, TUFTS and LSE, Warick</p>
<p>UT Austin, UMich, NU, NYU, USC are certainly not reaches !!!! the guy is an american citizen and its much easier for him to get in... ive seen much worse us citizens go to penn</p>
<p>Your sat scores are fine. Even if you retook them, they wouldnt get you from not-admitted to admitted. Dont retake. Unless you feel you really need to or something.</p>
<p>And not applying for fin.aid does not increase your chances because you possess citizenship. If you needed finaid, you wouldve been admitted through the need-blind policy for most of the schools listed.</p>
<p>reaches that you should def apply to: Nyu (if applying to business school), uc berkeley, (northwestern), brown. good luck :)</p>
<p>You are going by prestige
LSE is definitely easy to get in...
USC caps the # of non californian residents....
His SAT score lies outside NYU's middle 50% Score(1310 & 1440)...
Tufts may be considered as Reaches</p>
<p>Dude abhishiv, don't comment on things u don't know about - "lse is very easy to get into"
Did you know LSE has over 12 applicants per place on average, and if you're looking at doing economics there its about 17 applicants per place... way higher than that of ANY american college.</p>
<p>Oh, and on a different note - why is it easier to get into college if you're a US citizn?</p>
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Did you know LSE has over 12 applicants per place on average, and if you're looking at doing economics there its about 17 applicants per place... way higher than that of ANY american college.
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lol..
Think before you type. He is doing A levels, you need AAB(or maybe lower) to get into LSE. In fact all British Universities are easy to get into- Barring Oxbridge & Imperial. British Universities are Cash strapped and Int'l are a major source of income for them.</p>
<p>Anyways, no of applicants don't make any college selective; that's the most stupid argument i have ever heard. Uchicago has 40% admit rate; does that makes it less selective then Brown/Dartmouth?</p>
<p>And it would be obviously easier to get into if you are a citizen; Colleges cap the number of international students. They aren't supposed to admit all int'l.</p>
<p>The requirement for most courses at LSE is AAA. That being said, AAA alone does not guarantee admission to LSE, becasue
1. They have way too many applicants
2. A level results aren't out by the time they make offers.</p>
<p>Chances are, you might not even be made an offer without excellent GCSEs (For UK ppl or whatever previous qualification you have) and excellent personal statement and reference.
Even though they are cash strapped and about 50% are internationals, there is heavy competition among the internationals simply because of the number of international applicants.</p>
<p>UChicago's applicants are quite self-selective, hence the high acceptance rate.
Its not like that at LSE where the number of applicants is much higher.</p>
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Chances are, you might not even be made an offer without excellent GCSEs (For UK ppl or whatever previous qualification you have) and excellent personal statement and reference.
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Getting A's at A levels/GCSE is hundred times easier than getting into top 20 LACs. If you go by admit rate it was 15% for Americans last year. OP already has 4 A's at A level and 10A's at O level. They make offers based on Predicted grades which could be rescinded if final grade is too low. PS doesn't carries much weight, admission criterion is very objective.
Think before typing; it only shows that you are ignorant...</p>
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UChicago's applicants are quite self-selective, hence the high acceptance rate.
Its not like that at LSE where the number of applicants is much higher.
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Aren't you contradicting yourself, the fact is that LSE isn't self selective hence admit rate can't be a measure of selectivity. </p>
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Why do so many people assume acceptance/rejection based only on SAt scores?!
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I never said that he would be rejected. We can't assume acceptance/rejections based on SAT score but at least we can use them to classify colleges into matches/reaches. Nevertheless, not many applicants have ECs that could compensate for their SAT score.</p>
<p>Why are you saying that getting As at A level is 100x easier than getting into top LACs? you're not even backing this up. You've quoted the admit rate as 15% (you brought in this figure so i'm assuming you also agree that the admit rate is a measure of the college's selectivity, but this 15% is far lower than that of LSE...anyway back to the point).
There are going to be sooo many applicants with 10As at O levels (some will even have all A*s at GCSE level) and a predicted AAA. Obviously they're not going to make offers to all of them, they decide based on other factors (PS and reference)</p>
<p>At LSE due to the extremely high number of applicants, the competition is fierce. At Chicago due to the fact that the applicants are quite self-selective (even though not huge in numbers) the competition is once again fierce. Either of the two factors makes it difficult to get into.</p>
<p>Btw... i've applied to colleges in UK and will be applying to US also, so i am quite familiar with the process</p>
<p>firstly, the O level doesnt have an A* grade, so that doesnt count. Its true, people who have to study for SATs and go through the US admissions process (and do a lot more EC's) have less time to study for A level, hence it becomes harder for them to score stright A's. </p>
<p>I dont know, but people in my school in Pakistan EASILY get into LSE (there are like 5-6 people every year and almost none to any top US College) but they dont end up going there because of financial reasons. I know people who have been rejected from LACs like colby, bates etc and got accepted at LSE.</p>
<p>It is hard to compare admission to UK and USA unis as the system is different. In the UK it is a subject admission while in the USA it is a Uni admission. In the LSE there would be subjects that are harder to get into such as economics and other which are easier (my course had an admission rate a bit below 10%). While in the USA there are unis with higher rates of admission and those with lower. </p>
<p>Regarding the admission of international students the LSE seems to recruit from abroad more strongly than other unis in the UK and the USA. Part of this may be financial, part historical and part due to aims.</p>
<p>And regarding not getting into unis but getting into other unis I have heard many cases of people getting into very prestigious ones and not being accepted by "middle of the road ones". I guess there would be many reasons for this: maybe the emphasis given to personal atributes are different at different institutions (ex languages). Maybe the minimum requirements are also different. Maybe the more prestigious ones have more experience with different educational systems and know that for example a British degree with a 72% (1st class honnours) final mark is excellent while the same percentage grade in the USA would not be so great and etc....</p>