<p>I was a random high school senior from Sweden who after getting inspired by a classmate applied to Ivy Leauge and Top Tier schools and made it into Cornell and Harvard’s Waitlist (including Penn’s Brown’s and Columbia’s). And I applied FA so in all schools except Harvard and Princeton did that hurt my chances severely.</p>
<p>I think I did a hell of a job promoting my application. But one cannot make up for lower SAT scores (2050) and narrow range in SAT2 (math, math2, physics - 2290). These tests are very hard on international students who haven’t been studying IB or anything else in English (English is my third language and I only had two hours of English class each week).</p>