<p>Hey everbody,</p>
<p>I'm bigfish911, i am currently an exchange student from France in the United States with the Rotary International. In France, i'm in the top 1% of my class, i have a 3.80GPA unweighted and 3.95 GPA weighted in my American high school (top 10th), i took 4 honors classes from my first semester to my second because my counselor didn't want to give me those classes to an exchange student first - i asked them for the second semester and got them.
I scored 2350 on my SAT and 2400 on SAT II Math 2, US History and Chemistry.
I love helping, I am in many extra-curricular activities in my school: Spanish Honor Society, Show Choir, I'm about to lead a project of building a hospital in Nicaragua, I'm about to publish a book... I have very good letter of recommendation from all my teachers.
I know French, English, Spanish, Portugueuse, Italian, Swahili. I passed the TOEFL and DELE and got good scores.
I want to study International Public Affairs/Peace and Conflict Resolution and Geopolitics.
I am applying to 13 different universities next year and I would like to know if i stack up.
Here we go:</p>
<ul>
<li>Dartmouth</li>
<li>Yale</li>
<li>Harvard</li>
<li>Princeton</li>
<li>Columbia</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>Stanford </li>
<li>UCLA</li>
<li>Berkeley</li>
<li>American University</li>
<li>Cornell University</li>
<li>UPenn</li>
<li>Oxford University</li>
</ul>
<p>My concern is that i should do another year abroad, I was thinking about a year in community service in Asia or Africa.</p>
<p>Those schools are never easy to chance, because we’ve seen students with perfect stats get rejected from Ivies and their like. </p>
<p>Also, a 2400 isn’t possible on an SAT II. You mean the three combined were 2400 (800 each?)</p>
<p>Yes - All three 800.
Just give me a chance on them, just to know if i should do one year abroad like i said, if it would change anything.</p>
<p>I think you have a very good chance at all of them.</p>
<p>I’ve always thought that threads like these are pointless. </p>
<p>Who cares about chances, applicants don’t get any better than the OP.</p>
<p>This seems a bit unbelievable to me…How do you have time to maintain those excellent grades, publish a book, score such high numbers on your SAT IIs, do lots of ECs in school, build a hospital in Nicaragua, and also learn 6 languages, especially with the disadvantage of going to school in a different country?</p>
<p>Don’t take offense - if you’re being honest, your accomplishments are so amazing that they’re unbelievable.</p>
<p>You’re unbelievable! I will also about publish a book(a novel). Are you publishing in French? I’m not publishing it in English. I think you have a great chance on 80% of the schools.
Good luck on publishing!</p>
<p>Your “chances” are good… although there are thousands of amazing applicants and it is sometimes hard to tell how a school like HYPS selects students. About another year abroad… it will definitely make you more diverse, but it may not help much in the overall holistic approach to application that many of your schools use. If it is something you want to do, i would say go for it. Good luck!</p>
<p>The original poster is quite obviously a superman impostor… But on a more serious note, while I’ve never ‘chanced’ anyone, I would say that you have great chances. When Berkley can almost be considered a safety you’re not doing too bad. Good luck to you (you seem to be very deserving).</p>