@ronakice I had exactly the same problem ( Diarrhoea actually) when I retook it. But luckily I raised my super score by 90 marks to 2230 as I did well on writing…Though I scored horrendously low on the others. Lucky I guess.
BUMP…
If you don’t ask for FA many are willing to accept with a good score and decent EAs. After all, they want full tuition from some students. Many schools have need-aware selection process. Only the Ivys are need-blind for internationals, all others look at your FA needs before they accept you, whatever your scores are.
BUMP
My stats are
Test Scores
SAT 2270/2400 (CR:750/ M:770/ W:750)
SAT II
Math II 800
Physics 800
Literature 700
TOEFL 116/120
Percentage
Grade 9 9.57
Grade 10 10
Grade 11 86%
Grade 12 Predicted 93%
Academics
- 10 CGPA in class 10
- University Merit Scholarship (awarded to 11 students out of 350) Class-11th
- International English Olympiad conducted by the EduHeal Foundation Rank: 7/9830 Class-9th
- Was amongs 1200/40000 selected for Aligarh Muslim University 11th admission
- National Interactive Science Olympiad conducted by the EduHeal Foundation
Rank: 231/15780 Class 9th
Extra Curricular
- National Children’s Science Congress- National Level (Class 9th) and Pre-State Level (Class 10th) Weeks- 24 Hours-4 per week
- Dadasaheb Phalke award for best school documentary (The highest theatrical honour in India)- As an actor (Class 10th) Weeks-4 Hours-4
- Campaign Against Polythene in our city (class9th and 10th )- Weeks-120 Hours-3
- Student Council member (9) (full time)
- Universal Solidarity Movement (co- founder and treasurer)- Charity Organization (Class 9th and 10th) (full time+ weekly meetings)
- Was part of a campaign protesting Crimes Against Women (Class 10th)
- Articles for School Magazine (Class 10th)
- Intra School IT quiz 1st position (Class 9th)
- Intra School General quiz 2nd position (Class 10th)
- Intra School Essay writing 3rd position (Class 10
- Intra School Play 2nd position (Class 9th)
- Comedy Competition at Aligarh Muslim University- 1st prize (Class 10th)
State: Uttar Pradesh
City: Aligarh
Applying for aid: Yes
I’ve written really good essays (according to everyone whose read them) with really unique styles.The only thing holding me back is the lack of ECs in class 11th. I had a great Princeton interview and have been shortlisted for an interview at Yale-NUS (only 15-20% applicants are). Please chance me.
I applied to the following colleges:
• Princeton
• Harvard
• Yale
• Columbia
• UChicago (deferred)
• Cornell
• Brown
• Penn
• Williams
• Rice
• University Of Rochester
• Amherst
• Reed
• Swarthmore
• Yale-NUS
• Georgia Tech
• Stanford
My stats are
Test Scores
SAT 2300/2400 (CR:750/ M:800/ W:750)
SAT II
Math II 800
Physics 800
TOEFL 114/120
Percentage
Grade 9 no idea
Grade 10 80%
Grade 11 60% (extremely poor)
Grade 12 Predicted 85%+
Academics
Was in interschool Football team for 3 years as a midfielder.
Have given Homi bhabha exam.selected for practical round.
Have given elementary and intermediate drawind exam and achueved grades.
Can code extremely well in Html, Java etc.
Also an interschool chess player
Have built my own server and website.
I am from a state board school so there were no APs or Fiitjee or many other things.There weren’t any opportunitues like an ICSE or CBSE school.
Income bracket: No idea (will probably require some financial need)
Preferred colleges
Cornell university ( early action period application)
University of Toronto ( canada)
College or university options from people on this forum will be appreciated.
My performance was not that good in 11th grade and 10th grade i think so but want to really get into cornell .Can i make it ?
Please keep in mind that I am an international student from India (highly competitive applicant pool) that has taken a gap year.
[ul]Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2060
SAT II: 730,730,730 (Math II C, Physics, Chemistry) (tests taken the same day)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 1%
Predicted A-Level Grades: Three A*s, Three As
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Award from ex-president of India for Invention
National Innovation Foundation Award for Invention
ISEF Semifinalist Awards
Selected as ISEF 2015 Finalist (scheduled for May 2015)
Top 10 out of over 1000 Students in Inter-District Art Competition
Gold Medal - 1st out of 250 Students in Institute Art Exam
1st Prize in Local Club Tennis Tournaments
Have a provisional patent
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
School Art Club ( Founder and President);
7 Years from Private Art Institute with distinctions and awards and participation in exhibitions;
Student Government ( Vice President);
Student Government (House Captain);
Varsity Tennis (Vice Captain);
Local Club Tennis (Captain);
Debate Club (Moderator);
Varsity Cricket (Captain);
School STEM Club (Founder and President);
[li] Special Projects and Activities during school years:[/li]Student Exchange Program where we worked on sustainable development;
Conducted and organised city’s first Inter School Coding Competition (Hackathon);
Built a social network for artists that was crowdfunded;
Project on car chassis that can be easily be recovered after collision;
Cleared Zonal Computing Olympiad;
Representing state in Indian National Olympiad in Informatics;
[li] Special Projects and Activities during Gap Year:[/li]Research on graphene supercapacitors that can charge a cell phone in 12s (successfully achieved). Novelty of the research lies in materials science ( the subject I have applied to most of the colleges for). Patent expenses payed by National Innovation Foundation. Getting funding for further development of invention from Boston Based venture fund.
Set up Self Organised Learning Environments in and around city (based on Suagata Mitras Ted Talk) basically uses computers and internet to help promote creativity and encourage curiosity in children. Catering to about 1000 children in total from 5 schools;
Interned in a farm and carried out successful affordable vertical multilevel farming research;
Also carried out hydroponics based vertical farming research - can increase crop yield by 40 times;
Essays: Pretty decent.
[/ul]Other
Country: India
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: -
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Applied without aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None
Reflection
Strengths: Researchwork, Awards, ECs
Weaknesses: Testing Scores
Colleges Applied to : 8 Ivies; Duke, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, Carnegie Mellon, Harvey Mudd, Rice, Northwestern, Washington Uni in St.Louis, Michigan, GeorgiaTech, UCB, UCLA
How did you qualify for ISEF if you have already graduated from high school? The rules state that you must still be in HS?
SAT I scores are too low for most of the schools you listed except GaTech, UCB and Northwestern.
Receiving venture capital money is no easy task. This is where you should focus your application on.
Objective:Indian Student from ICSE/ISC board taking gap year.No MUN, Ap in my city
SAT I (breakdown):2150(M-730,CR-710-W-710)
ACT (breakdown):
SAT II:Not given but planned…expecting above 750 in both Math 2 and Physics
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):Salutatorian
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
Grades in 9th=82%(5 rank/140)
Grades in 10th=87(8 rank/143)
Grades in 11th=70%(15 rank/145)
Grades in 12th=89.25%(2 rank/145)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
- Cracked NCO (By SOF and 125 International rank and 4 in city and technolothon ( organised by IIT Guwahati).
2.Won various national Level Robotics Competitions organised by IIT’s in their Technical Festival.
3.Ton’s online courses from Coursera,Udacity and EDx .
4.Did theatre for 2 years in High School.With script writing
5.Android App Developer(not launched any till now.Wil do it soon)
6.Received 8kyu.belt in karate.
7.Represented my school in InterSchool Table-tennis in 9 standard. Haven’t done anything in sports since then
- President of Computer Club at my School.
- I was appointed in my school's student Council twice.
10.Learned german in 9th and 10th(Of course I know remember nothing of it now, school Curriculum)
11.Play Keyboard and did many shows in my city.
Job/Work Experience:
1.Kind of interned with my school’s Counselor for 1 month.She helps students with the psychological problems. (She is NOT College Guidance Counselor,)
Volunteer/Community service:
1.I tutor 2 kids in my building for free(Obviously because they are not able to pay for it)
2…Did community work at my city’s School for Deaf and Dumb
Summer Activities:
Nothing Good
Essays (rating 1-10, details): I don’t know how to rate it but anything between 7-8
Recommendations (rating 1-10, details): Very Good.9-10
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep. can pay around 10-11 k per year
Intended Major: Computer Engineering+psychology as a minor
State : Madhya Pradesh
Country: India
Income Bracket:<25000$
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):Nope
Colleges applying to:I have no idea some say you won’t get into any national university some say you can get universities like UIUC with your intended aid.Why don’t you guys suggest me a little.I know My need for aid is gonna be a problem.Please do chance.
@DarkL0rd You can get into UIUC and Purdue and several other state universities with those stats, but the problem is they don’t offer scholarships to internationals. Google " US colleges offering need-based aid to internationals" and you will find something worthwhile. Hit me up if you need any further advise. Also, finish all the online courses and get certificates for them and launch the Android App before applying. Can only help. 
. All the best.
@michaelite How did the admissions season go for you? Acceptances, Rejections, Waitlists? Which college are you attending this fall?
@michaelite Thank’s for replying…I did the search and it turns out that there aren’t very good national universities that offer need-based admission…What do you think of my chances at UMich(pretty low , I guess) , Brown University, Boston University, University of Minnesota, University of Texas at Austin(also pretty low)…Some of the whose Computer Engineering Course’s I found good…And I don’t wanna go to an LAC because they don’t offer Computer Engineering Courses …Was wondering If you could compile me a list…It would be a great help…
@mumbai98 Purdue mate. Is the cheapest and the best option I have. Didn’t get any scholarships anywhere for some reason. Guess CS was too competitive this time around. And whats up with you?
@michaelite I’m applying this year. Got done with my SATs and everything. Focussing on boards, olympiads and essays now
BTW, can you help me out with my college list?
@mumbai98 Cool man. Keep me posted. Might not be very active on CC these days, but if you have any problem, just message me.
@DarkL0rd On the contrary I think your chances at both UT Austin and UMich are decent. But neither has any scholarships for internationals. Aim for the LAC’s, like Harvey Mudd, Swarthmore and others. They have loads of scholarships and have decent engineering streams. I didn’t know this stuff when I applied. Infact Harvey Mudd has perhaps one the best and by far the highest paying CS department in the US. Its difficult to get in, but give it a try anyway.
@DarkL0rd Don’t jump on the band wagon and apply to all Ivy League colleges and Stanford and MIT and stuff. Be realistic. Apply to some top colleges, but not too many.
@mumbai98 Sure dude. PM me the colleges you are interested in. I will try to find out and help how ever I can and give my own suggestions.
@michaelite I know I am not Ivy-League material…That I am not even going to apply to those…I found this
http://www.finaid.umich.edu/Home/HowtoApplyforAid/NewProspectiveUndergraduates/NonresidentStudents.aspx
on UMich’s website…I don’t know what to make of it…Boston must be in match right…
@DarkL0rd Non resident means American not living in that state. There is no aid for internationals at Michigan in first year at least.
@michaelite Thanks for clearing that up…So what universities offer Computer Engineering as major…Please guys…help me out here…