<p>You guys get some cool scores!
Me, Thailand: 1290/560/800/800 Trinity
GPA 3.9 Class percentile rank 81% from 223 people (the top 5% is people who get 4.0 lol). Do I have a chance?</p>
<p>Did you applay for aid, do you have ECs, any awards, community service, how is your essay? all those may affect your decision
1. balac- 1450/630/780/800/ gpa 4.97(5.00 max)/1st tenth, Pratt, Serbia
2. ahtsisab 1490/590/800/800 no gpa/rank 10/83 trinity nepal
3. PanzerRon 1420/760/740/710 no gpa, 8/230 (I rised to 6 at the end of the year)
4. Fran95 1500/770/800/800 gpa is 94/100 unweighted. top 5% of class. From Canada.
5. ckakalacheva 1510/660/760/700/750, gpa 5.93/6.00, no ranking (Bulgaria)
6 syasha act 30 conversion 1380/800/800/760 3/320 india
7.akashbansal 1520/800 W/800 M2c/780 Chem Top1% 980 India
8. chickenlegs 31-ACT/gpa 3.90/no rank (top 5%)/Pratt/Taiwan
9. flyingpenguin 33 ACT/740/730/670/3.5uw/China.The 670 is pretty bad.
10. <em>nt</em> 1360/700/700/660/No gpa/top 30% Trinity India
11. plushenko 1600/800/800/710Wr. (800/800/790), 4.0UW, Korean-Japanese, studying abroad
12. abhiathome:1570/800/800/780 Pratt no gpa 2/100 nepal
13. sbk 1350/800/780/630 Trinity no gpa 3/100 nepal
14. Naage 1480/800/800/750 Pratt no gpa 1/100 nepal
15. Parya (n0 stats available) Pratt no gpa 6/100 nepal
16. yy0712 1560/800/800/790 4.0. top 1%, trinity, china
17.purityandchastity 1450/800/770/700 no gpa 1/83 Nepal
18. yesh 1580/800/800/800 no gpa; singapore
19.Bahamian_Dukeapp09 1420/780/680/740, 3.98
20. valecollegorian 1290/560/800/800 GPA 3.9 Trinity Thailand</p>
<p>Aid? no. Major: Biochemistry.
ECs: Team manager of the school's science demon team, School Guide (guiding visitors around the school),
Yearbook, Mini-Half Marathon running, college application counseling club president, Bakery&cooking club, Biology tutor, traditional dancing and music, a student representative in the school's curriculum committee.</p>
<p>A molecular biology research project on protein engineering of Bt mosquito-larvicidal protein (also submitted a reference written by the research mentor and the research paper).
A national finalist (one in the 24 of which 4 were the real competitors in intl level) for International Biology Olympiad. (Does this help?)</p>
<p>Essay? I don't know but I asked a Duke freshman for comments (does this work?).</p>
<p>Well, to be honest, the int'l pool is obviously very strong this year and if u were in this pool, u probably would of had a very slim chance. But, you didnt apply for aid, so ..ur in the normal pool and that makes it much easier for u to gain admission...however, according to ur stats and EC's...ur chances remain quite slim...what caught my eye was ur 81% of 233!...thats really gonna affect u..sorry...but im trying to be honest.</p>
<p>My 81% means I am in the top 20% in a highly selective high school (240 students admitted from 8000 applicants nationwide). I do admit that I have rare chance.</p>
<p>A rare chance...but a chance nevertheless...25% of applicants get accepted with SAT's below 1380..so, ur chance is still there...u never know...keep up the hope.</p>
<p>So what'bout other-than-numbers stuff of yours?</p>
<p>Me?</p>
<p>WELL...I won the national swimming competition, the national elocution competition and I was the best speaker for the winning national debating team.</p>
<p>I started a club in my school that raised $30 000 for a Haitian charity.</p>
<p>I write a column in the nation's best selling daily newspaper.</p>
<p>I am the president of 6 clubs in my school, vice president of 2, treasurer of 2 and public relations officer of 2. </p>
<p>I am class president.</p>
<p>I am an Ethiopian activist...altho im not Ethiopian, i started a petition adressed to the chairman of the UN to help those ethiopians who are dying as a result of political restrictions placed on that country by Egypt.</p>
<p>and well, just some other ordinary stuff...i won a national essay competition where i was able to travel to other islands in my country to speak about it...</p>
<p>I have tons of public speaking awards...mostly 2nd and third or finalist awards...some other arbitrary things of little importance.</p>
<p>Wow.
You guys are frikkin' amazing.
ALL OF YOU!
I'm from Florida(but of Haitian decent), and I have some questions:</p>
<ol>
<li>How do you guys know that financial aid brings down your chance? I thought schools were need-blind?</li>
<li>How do you guys all know English? Does everyone here go to private school or something?</li>
<li>If you don't apply for financial aid, are your parents just paying for it or does your country have some special scholarship programs or...</li>
</ol>
<p>Sorry if I sound stupid, but those thre things caught my attention.
Again, all of you guys amaaaazing. I hope to meet some of you guys in the fall!</p>
<p>wow, bahamain you're awesome! you sure have done alot. what other schools are you looking at?</p>
<p>puzzledlily,
1. fin aid brings down intls chances because duke isn't need-blind. i think only the ivies are need blind. duke only accepts like 25 intls with fin aid? right guys?
2. well, for me, i know english because i've been in the US for a loong time.<br>
so the rest of you, answer away on this one and on number 3.
i applied for fin aid.</p>
<p>For students with US citizenship whose parents pay tax for the US government, the US government can support your college education (in parts you cannot afford), of course; so, it's not the university's money and the university can be need-bline for non-intl students.</p>
<p>Duke says it can pay for only 25 intl students a year.
Scholarships: that's all I've been looking for all the time. Chances are slimmer than my chance of being admitted to Duke.</p>
<p>English: I used to take English courses in Vancouver and in New Zealand. I read a lot of textbooks and papers during my participation in Biology Olympiad camps and a talent search program in my country.</p>
<p>Duke is need-blind, just not for international students. Wash U and Johns Hopkins are examples of schools that aren't even need-blind for American students (you'd think with all the money Wash U shells out for flying people there and giving scholarships they'd at least be need-blind..). There are VERY FEW schools (four, to be exact) that are completely need-blind for internationals. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and MIT are. Stanford, Brown, Duke, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell, etc. are not. Yale turned need-blind for internationals only like a year or two ago, and it has the second biggest endowment of any university in the world. As of now, Duke is working it and already doing something by giving money to ~30+ (some internationals get merit money) international students but it simply cannot afford to be completely need-blind as it is.</p>
<p>Thanks guys...i try.</p>
<p>Duke was the only prestigious school i applied to. I wasnt interested in any other big schools like Yale and the others... only Duke, which became my first choice.</p>
<p>That sucks, paying 160k is a lot....</p>
<p>IT SURE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>i was considering not applying for financial aid to increase my chances, but it wouldnt make any sense because i cant afford 40k a year!</p>
<p>are there internationals that can actually afford 160k?!</p>
<p>oh yes. you wouldn't believe how wealthy some of the international students here are.</p>
<p>Im sure some of them can afford it! </p>
<p>Hey, i even heard that Rudy Guleanis daugter got in early decision!!!</p>
<p>Thats cool!</p>
<p>i won the pulitzer</p>
<p>Yesh, whats that?</p>