<p>Quoted for Truth? K?</p>
<p>you'll do brilliantly! anybody who applies to MIT for business is just sheer genius. sheer!</p>
<p>Okay, I'm an international student (Berkeley reject :<, UCLA accepted me, though.) and here's my opinion:</p>
<p>You have the stats for MIT, but NO ONE can give you a percentage chance. NO ONE. Most people who apply to MIT are amazing, write wonderful, passionate essays, have top grades, very very good ECs, and have done fantastic things like winning the Intel competition (just an example.)</p>
<p>UPenn: You should have a fair chance, unless you apply for aid. If you apply for aid, you'll have a very poor chance.</p>
<p>UMich: You will probably get in.</p>
<p>CMU, NYU: Fair chance.</p>
<p>UC Berkeley: They admitted 2% of international applicants this year. You have a chance, though.</p>
<p>To improve your chances, WORK ON YOUR ESSAYS. Show them to as many people as possible. (Don't show them to too many people on CC, plagiarism might happen).</p>
<p>There are lots of Aussie applicants, just because you're Aussie doesn't make give you a better chance.</p>
<p>loslobos71 hasn't been very nice about it, but his point has merit. Look for fit, not just high rankings. Also, rankings aren't exactly the supreme truth. Oberlin and Reed are two of the best liberal arts colleges in the US, but are not ranked very high on USNWR. Don't underestimate fit, you CAN get a feel of what college life is like by reading about them on Wikipedia, as well as visiting their livejournal communities, Facebook groups, and talking to current students.</p>
<p>While I wasnt trying to be mean, you understood my point. thanks!</p>
<p>QFT means Quit fking Trolling BTW</p>
<p>Thanks guys for the help! I wonder what my chances at HPYS would be...</p>
<p>BTW - i keep getting conflicting comments about my chances at UPenn and MIT:</p>
<p>Could someone finally clarify?</p>
<p>QFT means quoted for truth. You can't just make up an acronym, especially if it's already taken.</p>
<p>Hey, i'm from Australia too :P</p>
<p>Are you accelerating into 4 unit maths? You're only in year 11 and you're already doing 4 unit? thats pretty good.</p>
<p>Also what school do u go to, I don't know any school that offers a 40k a year scholarship and is the 'Most prestigious.' The only private school which rates as good is Sydney Grammar. Its definately not the top rated school in our state. </p>
<p>Plus you should try and take up Extension English. Advanced is a bit of a risk because they def count it and you might not get 99.9+ UAI. SDD is also a bit risky, you just don't know on the day whether you'll get the marks. Plus it scales badly.</p>
<p>SAT marks a really good. I haven't sat mine yet. But in terms of how hard it is, how long did it take you to study? Also how hard do you say it is in comparison to Australian Standards.</p>
<p>In terms of extra curricular, on the whole its pretty good. I'd say pretty good match for a lot of those uni's. For MIT it might be a bit hard. If you really want to get in they're looking for outstanding EC's usually to do with science. From what i've heard, publishing a research paper in a professional journal, winning national award for robotics or something along those lines will give u a good shot at MIT. Thats what i've been told at least.</p>
<p>Oh and last of all you might want to rethink MIT. The cost is 50000 a year (tuition, board, expenses) . Unless you are pretty well off its a bit hefty. Also their financial aid program esp for int students isn't as good as say Harvard. I think you should try for harvard esp since you won some business thing. </p>
<p>Uh, MIT is good for science but not so much business. Harvard on the other hand is good for business but not so much science as MIT. If you want to do business, you should try for Harvard.</p>
<p>Quit effing trolling? LMAO!!!!</p>
<p>hey blankaudio,</p>
<p>I go the kings school :)</p>
<p>thanks for the advice</p>
<p>MIT - 25% chance, imo</p>
<p>MIT's financial aid for internationals is just as good as for US residents and is entirely need based.</p>
<p>The acceptance rate for internationals is low (less than 5%) because the pool is capped at 8%. This means they will admit less than 100 applicants from a very strong pool of about 2,000. The yield on internationals exceeds 85% so the vast majority of those admitted will enroll. Canadians take about a quarter of all international slots with India and China next. Typically, at most one undergraduate student per year is admitted from Australia.</p>
<p>What one undergrad student from Australia. Thats outrageous.</p>
<p>I guess phrozen will be competing agains't me then :P</p>
<p>I'm sure if there are multiple candidates who are outstanding from Australia then they'll accept multiple candidates.</p>
<p>Hah, BlankAudio, don't count on it. At all. You know those UAE kids I was talking about on the other thread? Both twins have the same stats (grades, >2350 stats, international debating) and were rejected from MIT.</p>
<p>I think that you have a good chance, but then I have seen lots of people with better stats than yours (kind of hard to imagine) get rejected (even the ones from America) from all of their US choices...</p>
<p>Just apply and see what happens!!!!</p>
<p>that's bs, 25 spots for 10 provinces? what do they take canada for, we score 20 points higher on IQ then americans</p>
<p>hey blankaudio - what are your stats?</p>
<p>I just want to compare with you</p>
<p>Assuming he is applying to Ross through the preferred admit program, he would probably have a better chance at NYU and Tepper. The acceptance rate this year is somewhere under 10% which is about a third of Stern's and a fourth of Tepper's. Other than that, I completely agree with everything TheOneCurlyFry said.</p>
<p>Of Wharton, Sloan, and Ross, I would bet you get in to at least one, maybe more (depending on the quality of your essays).</p>
<p>thanks ppl</p>
<p>I still cant shake the feeling that my EC's are sub par compared with the other candidates here on CC. </p>
<p>Would having a research paper published in a journal raise my chances significantly?</p>
<p>So the courses are TWICE as hard as in USA, and yet you still find them easy.</p>
<p>Why even apply to college? Won't the universities just send a jet to pick you up?</p>
<p>I apologize. The above post was rude.</p>
<p>That said - and knowing that you don't care about my opinion - I think you could use some humility. A great friend from gymnastics was ranked #1 at a private Christian school with 1000 students, had a 2100 SAT (albeit 800 Math), and was a decent gymnast...He was not recruited or anything, and MIT has the bottom ranked team in the nation. Anyway, I would like to believe that he was accepted to MIT because either via essays and/or interview, they actually say his goodness. He was just an incredibly genuine, humble, kind-hearted person. On boards like this, college admissions can seem cold and mechanical - but we see kids every year that are statistically demi-gods get rejected from top schools - and I think we sometimes forget that admissions officers are humans. A kind person impresses me as much as someone who gets a 2400.</p>
<p>Good luck, and I apologize again for my last post.</p>