It’s good enough to spend the money to send in an application.
Here’s the sad bottom line - you could have the perfect application, and your chances would still be miniscule. Using MIT as an example, they received almost 4000 applications from international students. You can be certain that many, if not most of them, had a stellar application. MIT accepted 131!!! That’s it. A 3.3% acceptance rate. You may be one of that 3.3%, but none of here will be able to reassure you of that. Good luck.
Because you app is strong, you odds are about one in twenty. There’s nothing you can do to improve that number at the universities you listed, it’s about as high as you can go, versus one in thirty or one in forty.
I strongly advise you add a few “face saving” universities so that you don’t have to announce, and deal with, rejection after rejection, something you must not be used to since your application is accomplished, and which can have devastating effects. In addition, trust me on that, you’ll want to have a few admissions to announce, even if you don’t plan on going.
The best thing you can do now is to find three universities you’re sure you can get into and that would be favorably seen in your circle - perhaps Purdue, U Wisconsin, UIUC, Colorado Scool of Mines…?
@MYOS1634
I’m considering Purdue, many Indians from my place are studying there.
Can you tell me if UCSD or UCLA can be a ‘face university’ for me?
And also, can any of you tell me which of the colleges on my list require me to declare my major at the time of application?
@skieurope
Statistically speaking, my chances at acceptance to MIT are zero. No student from my residential country has gone to MIT in the past few years.
However, there have been two three acceptances to Princeton and Stanford in the past years (this year too).
UCB, Cornell and GTech have accepted two/three students from my school itself.
My question is: Does statistically favourabile/not favourable have a big role on my actual chances at the school?
You want reassurance where there’s none to be had.
At this point, you’re competitive, and your odds are 1 in 20 or so. That’s it. You can’t get any other reassurance.
UCLA has got a cap on how many internationals it can admit and admissions are holistic. You can apply but there’s no guarantee. UCSD and UCSB could be “face saving” universities.
Try to take some credible tests. Especially that you’re an international student it would really matter, like what everybody has been saying. If you really want to study in any of these schools results are crucial.
@“aunt bea”
I scored a 35C on the ACT, 800s in 3 Subject Tests…