<p>I'm 16 from Australia and I'm applying to five Ivy's (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UPenn and Brown). I have already graduated from a private girls high school, just waiting for the ceremony.</p>
<p>Stats/Info:
ACT: C 32 :(
E 30
M 31
R 33
S 35
Essay 9
Graduating class: 125
Rank: not done by my school, if I had to guess, I'd say Top 5%?
GPA: Not given</p>
<p>My school doesn't have IB nor does it have AP courses.
(Final marks) I took seven subjects and got A's in all except Physics (B) in Year 12.
(Final marks) In Year 11, I took six subjects and got A's in all.</p>
<p>I have a lot of ECs but I only put what I was most involved in, into my application:
School Magazine (had to be chosen to get in)
Mock Trial winner
Mock UN
Community involvement - helping with charities, the elderly etc.
Pianist</p>
<p>Work Experience:
Just started an administration/assistant job to a CEO at a newly listed mining company
Been working for a business (retail) for 3 years
Experience in a top law firm (unpaid)</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Female</p>
<p>I don't think I have a high chance but I'm fine with that.</p>
<p>It’s tough to tell sometimes with foreign students how the credentials will transfer… the fact that you seem to have job experience in jobs normally reserved for adults is very encouraging, but your academic statistics themselves aren’t very good by Harvard, Yale, and Princeton’s standards. Perhaps Brown is slightly more attainable, and UPenn slightly more so, but all of them are very big reaches still.</p>
<p>Thanks for your respose
I’ve spoken to the schools I’m applying to, because the curriculum for the school I’m at is more advanced than the American high school system, even the AP programmes and they apparently are well aware of the differences between the two systems and will take it into account.</p>
<p>Oh and I forgot:
Volunteering -
Organised multiple Red Cross Blood Drives as I couldn’t give blood - too young and didn’t fulfill the weight requirement</p>
<p>I hope everything goes well for you! I have friends in Canberra who all have to go through the IB program (and hate it passionately) but other than that I know zilch about the Aussie education system… is it strict and linear like Britain’s or more liberal like America’s?</p>
<p>I’d love to go to ANU It’s the uni in Canberra. My top pick, I hope I getin!
It’s strict like Britain’s however Melbourne Uni just changed their courses to be more like America’s.</p>
<p>The high school system is definetly more advanced like the AP courses are what we study in Year 10 to 11 but with that being said, we definetly lack in extra curriculars.</p>
<p>There’s not much to do here.</p>
<p>At university, you just pick your bachelor and yeah So you can do Law or Med etc. undergrad, instead of waiting to do it postgrad.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m in year 11 of high school and I’m interested in, well, actually, a lot of the same schools you are. My friends go to Narrabundah College in Canberra but I think they’re planning on going to ANU or some place in the US, probably Stanford or Berkeley since they’re wimps and can’t handle cold weather.</p>
<p>And URM means underrepresented minority… basically non-white ethnicities. Colleges like to accept them for the purposes of representing these ethnicities properly. Kind of a racist policy, but one ingrained in the admissions process.</p>
<p>I think Asians have a harder time on the West coast (Stanford, Berkeley, schools like that) than on the East coast, just because historically there’s a higher density of Asians in the West. I’m not sure how being native Australian affects your chances (probably not at all, I would assume it’s considered caucasian) but if you’re Filipino or Indonesian than that would certainly help you. Of course, this is all speculative because there’s different meters for international students at these schools anyway, so you’re probably already better off than an American student with the same grades as you.</p>
<p>Yeah, as above posters said, its really hard to say. The international pool is alreay super competitive over the small amount of spots, but who knows how many they get from Australia, so maybe that’ll help you. You seem to have done well in school, but once again, being Asian does not help at all.
Perhaps passionate essays with diversity written all over them will help a lot? The international pool has LOTS of asians. >.<</p>
<p>I don’t have much experience chancing international students but in all likelihood UPenn will be easiest for you (it’s local for me and I’ve seen some great but not amazing students get in). HYP are tough for anyone, and Brown is also tough.</p>
So you can do Law or Med etc. undergrad, instead of waiting to do it postgrad.</p>