International student's chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey there, I'm an Australian student and I would like to know what you guys think my chances are of getting into the following colleges:</p>

<p>University of San Diego
UC San Diego
San Diego State
UCLA
University of Illinois Urbana
University of Tampa
Cal. State Uni Long Beach
Syracuse
Texas A&M</p>

<p>Any additions/alterations?</p>

<p>My stats:</p>

<p>My country of birth is South Africa, my country of citizenship is Portugal and my country of residence is Australia (does that help at all? Diversity or something?) I go to boarding school in Australia.</p>

<p>My high-school performance in South Africa (Grade 9 - 10 ) was really bad, I'd estimate a GPA from those years of 2.5 .
My high-school performance since coming to Australia (Grade 11 - 12) has improved dramatically; I'd estimate my GPA to be around 3.6+ .</p>

<p>I'm top of the class (or very near) in most of my subjects; Ancient History, Legal Studies, Biology & Advanced English.
Maths is another story, but it's not good.</p>

<p>SATs: CR 660 , M 610 , W 640</p>

<p>My estimated UAI (Which is pretty much my ranking within the state) is 92. So that means top 8% of the state.</p>

<p>Extra curriculars:</p>

<p>Community:
South Africa:
Helping AIDS children in orphanages (9 - 10)
Helping old-age people in townships (9 - 10)
Australia:
Community service rep for the boarding house.
Involvement in various fundraisers.</p>

<p>Sport:
South Africa:
'A' Team soccer
Track & field team
Aus:
2nd Team Soccer, hopefully 1st Team next year
Track & field team (hoping to get 10.30 in the 100m next year)</p>

<p>Other:
In South Africa I was class president throughout my time there.
I'm a prefect in my current school (it's like a highly selective leadership role), which is very unusual seeing as I've only been there for 1 year.
I'm the Assistant Head of the boarding house.
I'm can speak English, Afrikaans, Portuguese and Zulu (Again, diversity or something?).</p>

<p>I don't plan on getting financial aid, however I don't think any of the universities I'm applying to even give aid to internationals.</p>

<p>Thanks for taking the time to read this.</p>

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<p>You are an anomaly.</p>

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<p>Lxmx:</p>

<p>UCLA: Super Reach (out of state)
UCSD: Reach (out of state)</p>

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<p>Yeah, I figured as much. Interestingly though, my sister went to UCLA on a tennis scholarship (I seriously doubt I could emulate her though). Admittedly those UC colleges are just in there in case they make a mistake at the admissions centers there and they accept me :-P .</p>

<p>USD and SDSU are probably my main ones, so would I be correct in assuming that my chances for those are OK?</p>

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<p>Bump (Sorry, I need to finalize my list for my college advisor by tomorrow, I have no idea why he needs this stuff a year before but yeah, thanks).</p>

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<p>what race are you?</p>

<p>black? white?</p>

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<p>White. Not sure how that matters but thanks again.</p>

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<p>also, do you need financial aid?</p>

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<p>Nope, at the very least I won't need it initially (most likely never).</p>

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<p>USD and San Diego State would be matches.</p>

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<p>You should easily get in Sarycuse than, and most mid-level privates you apply to</p>

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<p>Wait a minute!</p>

<p>You're African American dude....</p>

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<p>Thank you for all the replies, I've now completed the list.</p>

<p>See you around on the forums!</p>

<p>sr6622: Indeed, my old friend from South Africa who already lives in San Diego could probably say as much haha.</p>