<p>Oxford University -
-Cambridge University - extremely high reach for everyone lol, it's basically a crapshoot.
Hmm can only apply to one, the Brits are weird =]</p>
<p>-University of Edinburgh - no idea
-University of London (King's College) - low reach due to your scores. Uk schools are EXTREMELY grade consious, however I heard that you can send in your resume so hopefully, they would take your Ec's into consideration.</p>
<p>-University of Wales - no idea lol srry
-Columbia University - high Match
-Georgetown University match
-UCLA - lol I would be surprised if you didn't go in though noone is a shoo anymore.
-Cornell University high match
-Tufts University low reach</p>
<p>Can I recommend a couple of schools that are great schools for everyone.
London School of Economics and Polisci, they have international stats around your range,
I think they are right next to Kings College......
NYU
UMICH
Brown - barely an IVy but still lol.</p>
<p>I can tell you more if I know what you want to major in.</p>
<p>can i just say- CONGRATULATIONS- you've done some amazing things. if they let in footballers with mediocre scores then they should seriously let in an underage published author. i think that's worth more.</p>
<p>then again, i'm not an admissions officer...</p>
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university of edinburgh is the same too, you can't apply to that and oxford or cambridge...where did you publish your novel with?
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Unless the rules of many years standing have been changed for September's new applicants, this is completely untrue. You can only apply for Oxford or Cambridge, but anywhere else is unrestricted, including Edinburgh. The number of places you can apply for is reduced for certain competitive subjects, such as medicine (a 6 year undergraduate course here). There is also an earlier application deadline of 15th October for Oxbridge (20th Sept-ish if you want an overseas interview) but the deadline for everywhere else is sometime in January. However, since apart from Oxbridge most schools are rolling admission, is pays to apply early in general.</p>
<p>All this information is easily available on the web at ucas and the web-site of each individual university.</p>
<p>you guys really shouldnt be freaking out about not getting into anywhere decent. all of you will get into a good college with your stats. im the one that should be worried lol.</p>
<p>OMFG... dude you are crazy.. YOU HAVE A PUBLISHED NOVEL! That's awesome and you are from Cali too +_+ Geez I think you have a great shot a the American Schools. Especially UCLA since the UC system is easier for instate. I don't know the details of the foreign schools but I do know my school has gotten some students into Oxford and though they did great things they are not as unique as you are.. though they did have perfect grades and test scores. It also might be more difficult to get into foreign schools unless you are perfect. The foreign schools are rather reaches, UCLA is a match, Tufts maybe a match the rest seem either slight reach or reach.</p>
<p>I've done a bit of looking into British schools, as I'm interested in applying to Oxford next year. The Oxford website does state that admission is purely based on academics - they'll want high SAT scores and high AP scores, so you'll need to raise your SAT (which I'm sure you'll do) and hopefully make some 5's on this year's AP exams. Having a published book, though, would probably look really great to them, but you'll need to work on the numbers. I would guess that since they're not particularly familiar with American EC's, they would tend to focus more on stats.</p>
<p>And make sure you'd be happy studying one subject and only one subject for three years in Britain. You can't double major unless the program is a pre-structured option, and I don't believe you can switch majors. Also, I read somewhere on CC - not at all sure if it's true - that Cambridge only accepts ~3 US students per year straight out of high school. So take that into consideration too.</p>
<p>That said, I feel like people are underestimating your chances at domestic schools. Seriously, if you got a book published AND won those poetry awards, you should be as much of a shoo-in as anyone can be these days. That's really unique and really rare. Why is everyone ranking Tufts so highly? I'm pretty sure that, if anything, Columbia and Cornell are harder to get into. But you still have a good shot.</p>
<p>oxford/cambridge - no
columbia - no
georgetown - maybe
columbia - apply early
american - yes
ucla - maybe
cornell - maybe, apply early
tufts - maybe</p>
<p>find some more schools with acceptance rates around 35 percent!</p>
<p>You are limited to five universities on your application and this includes one of either Oxford or Cambridge. Yor application to Oxbridge has to be in early,by the beginning of October, so start reading about the process now.</p>
<p>Just as a question, what's the "unique?" part in the title refering to? The book? If not, then what?</p>
<p>If the book is published by a major publishing company (self-published or published by a minor company is good for demonstrating passion, but doesn't really make you stand out). If you did, then blend that well into your essays because remember there are still a lot of high school'ers who get their books published by prof. companies, although they obviously are likely less than 100. But remember still, that high level colleges still reject a good amount of that 100.</p>
<p>Also for Oxford, the book and your EC's don't matter. They honestly don't care one bit about your accomplishments - you have a high rank and good grades, just get a super high SAT. Your current stats will make automatic rejection. The UK Universities aren't like the US ones. They don't care how many books you published, how many thousands of organizations you've lead, how many countries you've saved, and all that blah blah. Grades, SAT's, Rank. Period.</p>
<p>rank is not particularly important to uk universities. neither are grades per se. what's important are ap test scores and grades in subjects related to the course.</p>
<p>as i have pointed out in many other threads, americans who study ba degrees at oxbridge are almost uniformly college graduates. if you want to attend cambridge or oxford, it should be because you're prepared and eager for graduate study in your chosen field directly out of high school. this is why oxford and cambridge together typically take 10 american high school graduates per year.</p>
<p>Upon further reflection, I suppose I'm not much different than the thousands of other applicants these colleges receive annually :/ I'm probably going to end up getting my BA at Edinburgh or a smaller UK school and then going to Oxford or Cambridge for graduate school. How discouraging :(</p>
<p>i actually think you would be an excellent applicant to oxbridge (or any university in the world) for the course in english, provided you can get your sat scores into the range of eligibility. most of the people in this thread have a distorted understanding of what oxbridge admissions tutors mean by "academic criteria." this essentially means that oxbridge, london, etc. will admit you based on your demonstrated excellence in your course. if you demonstrate your excellence by publishing a book, that demonstrates it infinitely better than if you had gotten an 800 on sat reading and writing and a 5 on english lit.</p>
<p>^ Why thank you :) I was actually under the impression that UK schools admit based on narrowed focus in a particular area. (Ex : I would want to major in linguistics and literature; thus, the other criteria would not be so imperative). On another tangent, isn't college about preparing one for the professional position they would eventually acquire? Personally, I think American schools put too much emphasis on being "well-rounded," and students spread themselves too thin so that they can never actually develop a passion. Anyways :/</p>