<p>Why thank you, good sir/ma’am. 
God, CC is actually making me feel less hopeless. This is new.</p>
<p>Something that definitely sets you aside from most international applicants is your spectacular ECs. I’m really not entirely familiar with how academics for internationals are taken into account, but I’m sure your letters of recommendation from your teachers will be a nice boost for your application. That being said, your chances are relatively higher than most internationals, even though statistically speaking you’re at a disadvantaged since you’re not from the US. I’ll say low reach for Columbia and UChicago (just based off the sheer selectivity of the schools).</p>
<p>UNC, UMich, UVA, and UNC appear to be med-high matches for you though. Good luck! :)</p>
<p>Your grades are tough to understand but your scores are great and your EC are solid. UCHigaco and Columiba are reaches for everybody but you have a goo chance the state schools I am confident that you will get in</p>
<p>Columbia: Reach
Chicago: Reach
UVA: Match
UMich: Match
UNC: Match</p>
<p>Honestly since you aren’t asking for FA there’s a shot you could get accepted by all of these. I think your writing for Columbia will make the biggest difference between you getting in and not. Your SAT is decent, but a lot of Indian applicants have way higher which is my only concern. Best of luck!!</p>
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<p>Wow it is such an honor to be deemed an amazing applicant by someone like yourself! Even though you are an international applicant, you have a pretty good shot at all of these schools :)</p>
<p>Columbia - Low Reach
UChicago - Low Reach
UMich - High Match
UVA - High Match
UNC Chapel Hill - Match</p>
<p>@All: Much obliged to y’all, thanks a ton!</p>
<p>@whartondreamer: Yeah a lot of people from India are in the 2300-2400 category, but I was talking to a UPenn admissions officer who’d visited my school, and she said that once you’re past the 2250 mark(I’m teetering on it, sadly), the SAT score just stops mattering. </p>
<p>My biggest fear is that all the adcoms won’t understand my grades and thus reject me for a having trash HS transcript. Hopefully the rank+my additional info bit+LoR’s+counsellor’s note(don’t even know if she’s put it in, but here’s hoping) will convince them. </p>
<p>Also, do you guys know if one has to send an additional reco. from one’s research mentor, if one has already submitted the abstract?</p>
<p>Oh is it 2250? Because the one I talked to said 2300+. (Do we even know for certain though? I mean I’ve heard some people say 2350 as well, but not adcoms. Who knows?)</p>
<p>At least for India it’s definitely 2250, or so I’ve been led to believe. Trouble is that Indians can handle math and even writing to a great extent, but we have NO educational background in CR(most work on intuition and external prep, read: massively expensive tuition). So scores can seriously fluctuate thanks to that one section.
Maybe it’s 2300 for HYPS.</p>
<p>Oh that’s surprising. I thought Indians had great English.</p>
<p>I guess you will get into all of the universities you mentioned! But I agree with the lot that Columbia is a low reach, because it a ivy. Good luck!</p>
<p>@Harrovian-By and large, our English is good. But passage comprehension, vocab and so on are specific skills that we aren’t really exposed to in school(we’re quant-freaks, though). And for good reason, because people end up doing quant. stuff in college anyway. Commerce kids like me stick with Commerce in college, Sciencies do engineering(some at the renowned IITs) etc.</p>
<p>@Sanjay-thanks a ton, man! Good luck to you too :)</p>
<p>I think for international applicants the score bar might be higher. I’ve heard that for most top tier schools if you have over 2200, 3.9 GPA and over 700 on all Subject Tests, you should stop worrying and focus on essays because frankly you should just apply to top tier schools with those scores. :)</p>
<p>That is certainly true. The pool is further divided into those applying for aid(v. v. v. competitive) and those who aren’t(v. v. competitive).</p>
<p>@Stanfordmania what have you done your research on? I mean you wouldn’t want to disclose the exact topic on a forum maybe, but which subject?</p>
<p>It’s a detailed analysis of an avenue of corporate financing, with a focus on emerging markets post-08.</p>
<p>But…he has failing grades. 55% in math?</p>
<p>In my school, most people end up with way less. The passing mark here is 33(believe it or not).</p>
<p>Ohhhh. That makes sense haha.</p>
<p>Alright some good opinions here. Anyone else? PREETTTYY PLEEASE. </p>
<p>Also, which is better for PPE; Tufts or Claremont McKenna? I am considering an ED2 to one of those places.</p>
<p>75% chance, I’m saying that mainly because idk much about the college. But you’re grades are really good</p>