I am currently in Xth grade. I will give SAT this year in May and am aiming for a score of 1470-1560 types. I want to apply to UIUC,UCBerkeley,Harvard,Yale,Stanford and GeorgiaTech.Can someone review my ECs??
-Founding Member of Quiz Club in School.
-Conducted an intra(selection test) for junior members by making a quiz and organizing the event.
-Have been the winner of Dorling-Kindersley Quiz from my School.
-Was a part of the 10-member school team sent to interschool maths competitions.(twice)
-Have qualified the SMTE exam and been invited to attend two week-long camps
-Have cleared the JSTSE exam and will receive the scholarship.
-Have been the winner of Postal Quiz Competition organized by postal branch of our government.
-Winner of the Ecomm-Matrix Buzz(Interschool Event) in a play.
-Have a GPA of 9.8,9.9/10 in school.
-Was sent to represent the school at various quizzes like Thailand Quiz,Columba Quiz,INTACH etc.
-Part of the 10-member team of my school for Korean Quiz.
-Was sent to Ramanujan Inter-school math contest as a part of a 10-member team which won the 1st prize.
so is this sufficient or i need more? and how much more ?
Pls help me out here
Frankly, without your test (SAT or ACT) scores, or a GPA, nobody is going to be able to give you an idea of your best options for applying to college. Your “aiming” for a score is immaterial.
As importantly, which do you want to major in, CS or Physics? They’re very different disciplines, and different schools will serve you better in studying one or the other.
I’ll go for CS if I don’t get it I’ll take physics
I think I will get that score based on what I have seen in practice papers
Can you like give a prediction now ?
Also my gpa is 9.8/9.9 by 10
Your EC’s look to be entirely exam/quiz competitions, many schools look for social responsibility. You might think about spending spending some time volunteering in your community.
In India I find it difficult to get social work. Also,my school has no organized societies and it’s all based on whether t
the teacher likes you or not. It’s difficult for a newbie to get a chance. Can you rec me something ?
Based on this and this only where do I stand a chance among the colleges I aspire to be in ??
Help me a bit if you guys may
I find it difficult to believe that you can’t find some community need to meet in India.
You could volunteer at a library, hospital, nursing home, children’s shelter/orphanage, food pantry… I’m sure there are several organizations you could find to volunteer.
Can your family afford to pay over $200K USD or would you need financial aid?
All of those schools are extremely different in size, location, weather, “personality” and costs.
You have a laundry list of schools and don’t appear to care where you go as long as it is a US “Ivy” school; you appear to be unaware that the US has over 3000 universities.
Berkeley is a California public university. It will not provide ANY aid to a non-resident, so you need to be prepared to pay $60K per year. OOS and international students now have lower chances to get into the California schools; political pressure is on the California publics to admit more residents and less non-residents.
I agree with @3scoutsmom^^. FYI: California schools like socially-responsible students. California has a number of “green” incentives and laws. The city of Berkeley is known for that. Having your direction in math contests tells them that you are one-directional and are only concerned about how you “look” and rank, and not the needs of others, such that, a school like Berkeley would not fit you.
You don’t have ACT/SAT scores, so it’s impossible to chance you.
Money in not a problem by any means.