How are international students looked at?

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<p>I'm a Swedish white male attending one of the countries most prestigious private schools with a grade point average of 20.0 (out of 20). I've also taken the SAT and for natural reasons I didn't score as well as I would have if I would have been American. 1900/2400 or 1300/1600 was my combined score. </p>

<p>We don't have APs or IB or anything like that in my school so I guess the schools I apply to can't look at that but my question is how the hell will they compare me to American students if at all? Will I get to compete on another quota? The schools I am looking at are all very competative schools and considering my relatively low SAT score I might have no shot at all I don't know.</p>

<p>I'm looking at: Berkeley, USC, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford and Georgetown.</p>

<p>Also (last question I promise!) I was wondering what SAT subject tests to take as Georgetown requires one to take three. I have no idea and obviously no one to ask at my school as all the information we get is pretty focused on Swedish universities and such.</p>

<p>Thank you so much in advance!</p>

<p>// David</p>

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<p>They will compare you with the historical data they have from applicants from your country.</p>

<p>In reality, colleges get a ton of applications from all over the world where kids have 2400s. It is a very tough, very competitive pool being an international applicant from Europe and Asia-the most competitive pool I think.</p>

<p>Chances of getting into your list of schools from anywhere with a 1900 are slim. Now if you have an 800 math and 3 800 math/science SAT IIs and have done amazing things in these areas perhaps they would give you a slight break on cr/writing. Buth they won't overlook scores in the 500s so you'd still need to bring them up.</p>