<p>Can't remember, i wasn't able to see all the peojects there.</p>
<p>A: Cornell has money for only 15 Intels each year.
You could find an on-campus job (research assistant) and reduce your tuition.</p>
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<p>If you look at the figures, around 6-10% of the total student body are international students so its obviously possible to get admitted even if you're international.</p>
<p>Good Luck</p>
<p>just because you got into Princeton ED doesnt mean we all can :p</p>
<p>6~10% is almost impossible already</p>
<p>6-10% of a tiny acceptance # to begin with....and YA Arjun and Cornell! lol. If you are unable to deal with the cost of Cornell you can probably do something about it, but I don't know if internationals have a harder time doing this "something". Working will definitely help.</p>
<p>if the 6~10%is student body, the acceptence rate should be even lower than that</p>
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if the 6~10%is student body, the acceptence rate should be even lower than that
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<p>your logic is flawed. According to your logic, since the domestic body is 90%, the acceptance rate should also be around 90%.</p>
<p>On the other hand, i remember reading acceptance rate was 7% for internationals applying to Princeton.</p>
<p>...we internationals sure get screwed over in the app. process....</p>
<p>phronz you misunderstood my logic, 6~10% of student body represents a certain amount of student, and there is a assumption (probably wrong, just my guess): since the princeton is internationally famed, the ration of the (6~10%of student body : international applicants) is smaller than (90%of domestic body : domestic applicants)
if the assumption is true, we have less chance in app. process
and that outcome is commonly agreed by the majority</p>
<p>...no, because the number of international applicants is significantly smaller than the number of domestic applicants</p>
<p>Let's use an example: 10,000 domestic applicants apply and 1,000 get in, acceptance rate is 10%. 1,000 international applicants apply and 110 get in, acceptance rate is 11%. Though the "ration" of the student body who is international is 110/(1,000+110)=9.99%, and is much smaller than the domestic student body 1,000/(1,000+110)=90.09%, assuming both pools are equally qualified, internationals would still have a better chance in the application process, because the acceptance rate is higher. The percentage of internationals in the student body and the international student acceptance rate aren't proportional.</p>
<p>On the other hand it seems like the international pool is more competative because they seem to be really qualified.</p>
<p>I agree with that, which is why I added the assumption "assuming both pools are equally qualified"</p>
<p>I was just providing a theoretical example to disprove his logic</p>
<p>I agree with you phroz, but my assumption is logical right too.
when we do how the specific number of both sides' applicant and the degree ofqualification
so its either like my assumption, or like yours, or a combination of both of ours.</p>
<p>hey guys!
well in a nutshell my stats were somwat mediocre sat, pretty good grades (no gpas), IB - 4 HLs predicted:42, lootttsss of ECs tht have to do with sports, ballet, poetry,drama,political org., student government, plenty of leadership,really good essays (i think), som supplementary materials, asked for lots of Fin aid:
Accepted to:
Harvard
Grinnell
Hamilton
Cornell
BU
Yale (ea)
Uchicago
Rejected:
Duke
Brown
will be going to Harvard:D
good luck to those applying next year dont let the whole ordeal of "harder for intels" and "no/limted finaid" discourage you!! and if ur sats arnt tht grt take me as an example..my sats were crummy and i did alright:D
pm me if u have any further qs id b glad to help!</p>
<p>what precisely is that "somwat mediorcre sat"?</p>
<p>Ya pls list SATs. You are remarkable tho. Brown must not have had enough money...and who knows about Duke. But you got accepted to the top schools in the US and you should be very proud. Congrats</p>
<p>and your nationality pls</p>
<p>I think community college is another good alternative way to get into elite universities too...but of course you guys have such a fabulous statistics....so I assume you won't want to go to a CC first...but anyway...
For freshman, I applied to
-U Penn (Wharton) with fin. aid----rejected
-Hong Kong University---accepted
-Hong Kong University of Science and Technology--accepted
-All universities in New Zealand----accepted (there are only 8 of them though)</p>
<p>But still i chose to go to CC, coz i really want to have another shot at one of the top business schools in the US.</p>
<p>So after two years at CC, GPA (during application) 4.0 with a few EC..(like clubs and stuff)</p>
<p>Applied to transfer to (junior)</p>
<p>UC Berkeley (Haas)-- accepted
All other UCs-- accepted
Cornell (ILR)---accepted
Columbia Univerisy (Econ) -- rejected</p>
<p>Decided to attend UCB Haas!
Oh...I'm from Hong Kong.</p>
<p>UCB wow, congrats, one of the top business school in the world</p>