<p>Standardized Tests:<br>
SAT I: Verbal: 670 Math: 800 Writing: 740
SAT II: Math IIC 800 Physics 790<br>
AP : Calculus BC (AB Sub score) -5 (5)
Physics B - 5
Chemistry - 5
Physics C (Mechanics) - 5
Physics C (E&M) - 5 </p>
<p>Academics : 92 out of 100 (It's really tough in India)
I assume I might be in top 5% (class size: 1100)</p>
<p>Extracurricular Activities:
Student Council - President
Mathematical Society
Editorial Board - School Yearbook
Summer Internship - Selected among 35 students from India - 200 hours
Model UN
Global Challenge Award
Poetry
Tennis</p>
<p>Awards and Recognitions:<br>
1st Place - MSF Challenge - National
(was awarded an educational trip to the Indian Institute of Sciences and the headquarters of the Indian Space Research Organisation)
7th Place - National Maths Olympiad (2008) - National
9th Place - National Maths Olympiad (2007) - National
17th Place - National Maths Olympiad (2006) - National
100 percentile - ACER exam - International
10th Place - Computer Star Contest - State
11th Place - Ramanujan Maths Competition - State
National Talent Search Scholarship
Junior Science Talent Search
2nd Place - Chemistry (FTRE) - North Zone</p>
<p>Selected as youth delegate of India at the South Asian Youth Summit on Climate Change [SAYSOCC'09] - International
Received an honorable mention for my essay on drug abuse by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).</p>
<p>Best Position Paper - NTU Model UN - International
Rapporteur (Security Council) - DPS Model UN - International
Best Delegation in Crisis - Doon Model UN - National
Best Delegate - WORDZ Model UN - National
Best Delegation - WORDZ Model UN - National</p>
<p>Location: India</p>
<p>I'll be taking Chemistry, French and Eng Lit. SAT subject tests in October.
Also, I'm working on a personal maths project.
I'll be applying for FULL AID (100%). </p>
<p>Chance me for:
Stanford University, Princeton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Columbia University, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown, Yale</p>
<p>First, Stanford is not need blind to internationals and unless you are one of the top students in all of India, it will be very, very tough to get in. With current rank and scores, I’d say less than 5% chance.</p>
<p>The bottom line is that you are in about the most competitive pool of applicants there is being an international from India. There are no safety schools and most of the schools on your list are able to cherry pick the very top Indian students are have won national awards of major magnitude. They are at the very least the very top students in their schools and regions.</p>
<p>If you’re counting on going to school in the US you need to add some considerably less selective schools that don’t have thousands of the most competitive Indian students applying. Even then, getting 100% aid will be very hard.</p>
<p>hmom5 is 100% correct. Considering that the acceptance rates in those schools are traditionally 10-15% and that their student body is already around 10-15% internationals, I would say the objective chance of getting accepted is less than 3%. </p>
<p>You are competing for limited places in a very competitive pool of brilliant people from all OVER THE WORLD, not just India. </p>
<p>Example? Princeton had 136 internationals accepted in 2009, from 41 different countries. Meaning that the max that could have come from India would be 95, which is highly unlikely. Lets assume it is even and Every country is represented equally. Which means that India would send about 3-4 students every year to Princeton.</p>
<p>Seeing that you are only top 5% of you 1100 class… of only ONE high school in India, it seems very unlikely. </p>
<p>Just make sure to have good safeties i nthe US. you don’t need the best schools o nthe planet to pursue your dreams. I personally know that the UC system is brilliant. UC Berkeley will be much more lenient, but still provide the top notch business and Engineering programs. </p>
<p>Check out some of the liberal arts schools as well. Amherst, Williams, and Pomona are just some that came to mind</p>
<p>Thanks for the honest opinions guys - I really appreciate it.
However, I might add a few things which I know:
First of all, I come from Asia’s best-ranked school. Only last year, 5 people from my school got accepted at Princeton - 3 with full aid! Supposedly, all of them had inferior profiles. I know my verbal score is really low, but are colleges so parochial in their view?</p>
<p>Also - I’d like to correct that I fall in the top 1% of my class, not 5.
And I’m working on a Renewable Energy Project on Vortex - Induced Vibrations. </p>
<p>One more thing - people have rightly pointed out that Indians already have enough internal competition. But majority here excel in the Sciences and Maths. I have good leadership experience at the international level to add to that - do you think that’ll help me? </p>
<p>I think this begs the question of why you are so parochial in your selection of colleges - other colleges (where the competition isn’t as fierce as those you referenced in the original post) offer full aid as well. </p>
<p>Hope you don’t take this the wrong way, you seem to be prestige-seeking. I don’t blame you; I’m fairly prestige seeking as well ;D</p>
<p>No James - I’m not taking anything against me!
Since you’ve suggested this, can you name other fairly good schools that provide full aid to international applicants?</p>
<p>And yeah, that’s keeping in mind that I want to major in the Sciences (most probably Engg) along with the possibility of an international relations minor or a double major.</p>
<p>Most are. Princeton’s 75th percentile SAT scores are 790 in each section. I would imagine the vast majority of non rich internationals have stats above the 75th percentile. The typical unhooked student is very top of class.</p>
<p>Honestly, I have a hard time believing that 5 kids from your school who were not hooked (children of the rich and powerful) got in last year with lower stats. That’s number is just about all the Indians they took last year.</p>
<p>One more EXTREMELY IMPORTANT question guys - I am applying Restrictive Early Action to Stanford. Do you think they prefer internal students more in EA? I’m already asking for aid - will this jeopardize my interests in REA because they usually first wanna know know the whole applicant pool before giving any aid?
Or should I wait to apply Regular - so that the profile can be beefed up a little?</p>
<p>Despite what everyone says (typical in CC), your stats fall within Stanford’s range of accepted students. (Pssst…people who are applying to Stanford are trying to discourage you…so don’t listen to them…hahaha…:p)</p>
<p>Although it is hard for internationals, I think you should apply to Stanford. There are many people who get accepted despite low stats and adcoms will take notice of you being an international student. </p>
<p>I recommend you to write great essays and get stellar teacher and counselor recommendations. Just apply SCEA if you LOVE Stanford and sit back…let the adcoms do it all :D</p>
<p>Your profile is very impressive, but with the universities you are applying to, one can never be sure. You should aim high, but also have safeties.</p>