<p>Hello, I am an high school student from Turkey.
I was an exchange student this year in the U.S. with a scholarship program that has %8 acceptance rate.
I took SAT before I came back to Turkey and the reasults are Reading:500 Math:670 Writing:550
I need full financial aid if I get accepted and I looked it up: The Colleges That Give International Students Most Financial Aid are
1-U of Chicago
2-Yale
3-Harvard
4-Stanford
5-Darmouth</p>
<p>And my exchange year GPA is 3.77 </p>
<p>I know that it is really hard to get in Ivies, but as an international student I guess the SAT score range should be lower than the score range we can find online. Is it really lower than the score range we can see on Collgeboard or are they the same for international students as well?</p>
<p>During my exchange year I tried new things such as Model UN and a music club called Voce Felice. Also I was a member of religious club.
In Turkey I am amember of Best Buddies. It is a foundation that pairs up people with Down syndrome with volunteers.
Also I am learning Turkish sign Language and working with the kids who cannot hear. </p>
<p>So can you guys please chance me for or at least tell me which ones I should apply and hope to get accepted among these colleges?
U of Chicago
Georgetown University
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Columbia University
Johns Hopkins University
Northwestern University
Rice University
Yale University
New York University Abu Dhabi
Tufts University
U of Michigan
Vassar College
Cornell University</p>
<p>You really should do a bit more research on US colleges and the relative selectivity of each.
Pretty much every single school you mentioned is out of reach for you given your test scores and GPA.</p>
<p>for Yale for example, if you had a 2300 and a 3.9 GPA, you would likely have about a 10% or less chances of getting in as a US applicant. (on the whole they reject about 95% of their applicants the vast majority of which have far higher stats than you do). As an international applicant, your chances are even lower.</p>
<p>But with your stats, the chances are very close to zero.</p>
<p>You need to be looking at a very different class of schools than the ones you mentioned above. </p>
<p>@soze there is no chance for me to stay in my country and be happy at the same time. Which colleges do you think I should apply? Thank you very much! </p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t know. Perhaps some large state universities with low-tuition?</p>
<p>If you need a lot of financial aid, it’s going to be rough for you as the universities which do provide generous aid to international applicants are also in general among the most selective. </p>
<p>There are universities that have specific scholarship programs just for international applicants (the Freeman program and Wesleyan and the Wien program at Brandeis are two that come to mind) but these type of programs are typically seeking the highest performing students (think stuff like a near perfect GPA and 2300 or higher SATs). </p>
<p>With your stats you really need to be looking at schools which accept more than 50-70% of their applicants.</p>
<p>You can never be too sure, but I can tell you the schools I think you have a high chance of getting into and low chance of getting into.
I’m African (also an international student) and people in my school almost always go to American universities. So I know that the acceptance rates for international students are usually much lower, hence the SAT score ranges are much higher. And its harder if you’re applying for Financial aid because these colleges need to provide aid to American citizens first.So they’re very selective when choosing international students to give financial aid. I advice that you find a test centre in Turkey and re-take the SATs and try to score significantly higher. Also, if you’re enrolled in any special advanced academic programmes that’s a boost. What year do you plan to enroll in college? And If you could share what you plan to study in college that will be very useful in deciding your options. </p>
<p>Now your chances</p>
<p>U of Chicago- Quite Low
Georgetown University- Low
Brown University- Quite Low
Carnegie Mellon University- Low
Columbia University- Quite Low
Johns Hopkins University- Quite Low
Northwestern University- Low
Rice University- Low
Yale University- Quite Low
New York University Abu Dhabi
Tufts University- Low
U of Michigan- Low
Vassar College- Low
Cornell University- Quite Low</p>
<p>When your SATs scores improve you can be certain that your chances will improve drastically. Also if you ever held any leadership positions in clubs, instead of just being a member of a volunteer, that can go a long way as well.</p>
<p>Also, you may want to look at universities such as Clark university, Beloit college, Lawrence university and Hanover college.
These schools are relatively generous to international students whilst being still in your range.</p>
<p>@Yurgirl thanks for your response! I would like to study computer engineering or finance! I will be junior this year so I will enroll in college in fall 2016</p>
<p>how can an International student convert his grade to gpa?
then again do universities only look at Sat score for Gpa for international student or the high school scores really does matter?</p>
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