<p>I'm a Hungarian international applying for need-based financial aid (no alternatives). I'd like to study engineering or comp-science and I'm looking for reasonable (though hard enough) choices besides MIT, Stanford and Cornell.
What universities would be good for me, and please chance me for Vanderbilt, University of Illinois at Urbana-C., Brown School of Engineering, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Tufts.</p>
<p>Grades:
We don't have GPA, but I'm top 5-10% in my class, though we don't have official class rank either. My school is the second best high school in Hungary</p>
<p>SAT:
My previous SAT was only 1980 and I'll do around 2050 (650CR, 800M, 600W) this October. Since I'm an international, I might improve to 2100 or so.</p>
<p>Language exam:
I have a 7.5 IELTS and I'm about to have a TOEFL between 100-110.</p>
<p>Other school projects:
- member of the school government
- lots of math and physics competitions (but not succesfully, recently; my last final was in 9th grade...)
- volunteer teaching (I trained some seniors to get through the wrestling part on their sport final exams)
- debating group-competition (semi-final)
- school English-club organizing and holding weekly</p>
<p>EC:
- volunteer Hungarian teaching (I taught kids in Romania in a camp this summer)
- volunteer Math teaching (I taught homeless children with possible dyscalculia for months last year)
- internship (I was an intern at Citroen in Hungary for 2 weeks, where I worked, attended lessons about the mechanics and wrote tests)
- work (I was a presenter at the Budapest GameShow a few years ago, where I showed the mechanics and all of the Lego Mindstorms robot to small kids)
- 24-hour programming competition (semi-final)
- debating group-competition (semi-final)
- short movie making
- film-club organizing and holding regularly
- sport: wrestling (for 10 years now; national competition 4th place 2x, group 2nd 1x), pentathlon (natinal competitions, group 2nd-3rd many times), tennis (for 5 years now, not competing nationally), skiing, soccer (on club level - once...)</p>
<p>There might be some great other points in my favor, but just looking at these, what are my chances for Vanderbilt, University of Illinois at Urbana-C., Brown School of Engineering, University of Chicago, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, Tufts? Thanks!!</p>