Hey everyone, I am a junior in high school and I was wondering if anyone knows a student who attended high school in Africa and got into a top American college for his or hers undergraduate studies.
A know a couple of Tanzanian students at Stanford(mechanical engineering and business), but in general a good number of African students get into good schools
Do you by any chance know there stats (sat, act, gpa, ECs…)?
It is just because I am from Africa as well, precisely Ethiopia and I wanted to know what type of African students big colleges accept.
Many colleges post their student profiles and it includes the countries that International students come from.
Qualified ones.
No college is going to accept an less-than-qualified student from a country just to stick a pin in a map. So, yes, students from Africa do get accepted. However, for most top schools, the acceptance rate for international students is roughly half of the overall rate. If you get your green card in time, as you mentioned on another thread, that will be you best shot at increasing your admissions chances.
Also a junior in high school from Morocco. Some of this is biased towards my country.
By university, these are the people I know (there are probably many more):
Stanford: 1 Moroccan, 2 South Africans (one just graduated, one just entered), 2 Tunisians, 3 Kenyans
Harvard: 1 Moroccan
MIT: 2 Moroccans, 1 Tunisian, 1 South African
Yale: 4 Moroccans (I was surprised too), 1 from another African country, and a whole bunch from SA and Kenya
UChicago: 1 Moroccan
Also multiple from Egypt at each of these, but I don’t know them personally.
***Worth noting that most of these applicants were qualified academically (SAT, GPA) and had good but not mind-blowing ECs (with the exception of 1 student at Yale). But I chatted with a few of them about what they wrote their essays on and just from the descriptions, it’s clear that’s what got them in.
Why do you care about other people’s stats…? Can’t you just aim for the highest score and do your best?