Highly Competitive HS? and other questions

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I go to an international school in Hong Kong that is highly competitive. Do colleges take this in account when looking at transcripts? I'm not sure how my school compares to high schools in the US, but the school acceptances of 2004 were, to name some that jump out at me:</p>

<p>Brown - 5
Carnegie Mellon - 16
Columbia - 3
Cornell - 7
Dartmouth - 2
Harvard - 4
Stanford
Yale
John Hopkins - 2
Duke - 6
NYU - 13
MIT - 2
U Berkeley - 7
U Penn - 4</p>

<p>okaaay I think that's enough. Does being an international student from Hong Kong help? And is my school considered "competitive" to the point that admission officers realize it is much harder to get a high GPA? (it is unweighted as well, with no A+ rewarded and As generally being above 93 or 94 %)</p>

<p>edit - 197 kids in class of 2004</p>

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<p>How many students were in the class of 04? that would give an idea of what percent are going to highly competitive schools. Generally, if your GPA is as high as the others who got into those schools, you're fine. Because, for example, if someone got into brown with a 3.7 and you have a 3.7 with the hardest classes, they obviuosly recognize a 3.7 kid from your school can do the work.</p>

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<p>There were 197 kids in that class. What would that translate to? Thanks for the help!</p>

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<p>what school do you attend? KGV or what? I came from DBS and I'm now in US as a public school high school student.
I think if you come from HK directly, you have adventage because U will reserve some vacancies for international students. NOT like me.... STupid....</p>

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<p>I go to HKIS. Wow they have those? really?</p>

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<p>I think so. And there is something called minority, which is also an advantage.</p>

<p>And it is amazing that there is soooo many students from HKIS go to these top U...</p>