Student A:
Sat:1900
Act:32
Percentage: 93% ISC
subject tests:2320 ( 770 on math2,780 on chemistry,770 on physics)
ECs: has 10 university certificates, leadership,best ecs in small town,letter of recommendation from university professors.
Student B:
Act:34
Subject test: n/a
Percentage 93% CBSE
ECs: took 17 couses, leadership, ioi participant, lives in a metropolis.
Who wins and what is the percentage difference between their chances? Does subject test overweight minor ecs difference? I am talking about universities like Stanford, MIT ,ivies.
Reply fast because I want to see the applicant pool in general.
Does it matter? You can only be one of the two.
Obviously it depends on the school. For schools that do not need SAT2, the second one with higher ACT score would appear better on application.
@billcsho what about MIT and ivies? Where sat2 is required
If Stanford recommends taking the sat 2 .who will benefit?
What are admission chances for each?
Nobody wins because it’s not a race. It’s not like colleges have to pick one of you or the other; they could pick one, both, or neither.
The admission chances at single digit admit rate schools are slim for everybody. There’s no way for anyone but adcoms at those schools to assign a percentage difference to individual students. The best you can do is try to meet as many of the admission requirements as you can, apply to a well thought out list of schools (with academic and financial safeties as well as a few matches & reaches), and not worry about other students.
What matters to you is whether or not you’re a US citizen (admission is tougher for internationals), if you have financial need (not every school is need blind in admissions or meets full need for admitted students), and how well your application (essays, letters of rec, etc.) is put together.
@austinmshauri Considering that the subjective requirements are both same and MIT accepts only few Indian applicants what are the chances? Can both get accepted or only one. In case of one who?
Neither would get accepted because there will always be applicants who have the best qualities of the 2 applicants you described and none of the downfalls.
Also I had 97.3% in ISC and was rejected by MIT and all ivy’s I applied to, so scores are not everything and the process is too subjective to quantify.
@Bored1997 did you receive email promotion from universities?
Nobody can tell you that. We don’t have the complete apps and neither do you. Essays, recs, finances, and the rest of the application matter.
If MIT accepts only a few Indian applicants and there are a lot of applicants from India, the chance for each is small. How does comparing yourself to one other applicant help you? It doesn’t give you a realistic view of your chances. Just put together the best app you can and make sure you have solid alternatives.
What are you not understanding? If you ask a specific question, maybe we can answer it.
Of course I received email promotions, everyone does. UChicago was sending me promotions even though they don’t have an engineering department you should realize that those are just mass mails that are sent to everyone who ticks a box while registering for standardized tests like the SAT or ACT.
Nobody wins and odds are, both get rejected lol.
People that get into those schools are downright exceptional. Information that you have is too vague, and even then I would still need to look at essays recs etc. as it is a holistic admissions process.
Judging purely from the stats, neither gets in. Just the way college admissions for those schools work.
EDIT: Well knowing that they’re Indian and applying to MIT, neither gets in. MIT would be a high reach for both of them to due to the schools selectivity and because of their demographic.