Hi i am an international student and i have studied my high school senior year in USA. I have a GPA of 4.00 and i am member of math club in my school and i have SAT 1850 (800 math, 520 reading, 530 writing) and ACT of 26 ( 27 science, 32 math, 22 English and 23 writing). I was also a member of another club in my country of residency. my school’s class size is 278 and i am the 9th.
is there any chance of getting into an IVY league or Stanford? How about UCLA or Johns Hopkins? Any other university suggestions?Do you think that i have to take subject tests too?
Unless you have an impressive and interesting list of accomplishments which might want them to have you on campus, I would say no–unless maybe you are from a country they don’t get many qualified applicants from and they would like your international perspective, particularly if you are also a URM. Being in a math club is not nearly enough.
Are you able to pay or are you looking for significant financial aid? It’s not just that your reading and writing scores are out of range for top schools. It’s also that you will be at a very substantial disadvantage academically competing against students who are producing reading and writing scores closer to your math score. Google the Common Data Set for each school that you are interested in, scroll down to section C and compare your stats to those of admitted students. Here’s and example for Stanford: https://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2015#admission
Without significant increases on standardized tests, your chances at Stanford or an Ivy are vanishingly low, especially as an international applicant, unless you have some truly remarkable hook that you haven’t mentioned.
Even UCLA may be a reach for you – though your odds would be better if you don’t need financial aid: can your parents pay $60,000/year for 4 years?
As for SAT II exams, check the website of each school. Please note that for the very selective schools, you should have them even if the school says they’re only “recommended.” Not having them will put you at a disadvantage, since most of the other applicants will.
Does my financial situation affect my chance of getting into colleges?
And actually my class size is 782 that was a typo!
No.
“Does my financial situation affect my chance of getting into colleges?”
At the highly competitive need-blind schools such as the Ivies, generally not. At many other schools, including UCLA, definitely yes. Or you might get into those schools – but not get any/enough aid.
The reality of studying in the USA is that it takes a great deal of money – or truly exceptional accomplishments either in academics or in particular ECs.
Harvard/Yale/Princeton/Darthmouth: Need blind for all and meets 100% need.
Cornell: Need blind but not specific about meeting need
Columbia/UPenn/Bron: Need aware and meets 100% need.
Almost all the other colleges are need aware. How much can you pay per year?
Your tests scores are very low for top tier schools.
So, which schools do you suggest? With which acceptance rate?
Google is your friend.
You still have to answer following Qs:
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How much can you afford?
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urban or suburban or rural?
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Major? minor?
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plan to stay in US for work visa after? Or going back to your homecountry?
5)Is prestige important in your country?
- What kind of extracurricular(anything other than school work) have you done?
@lili12345 Most of those schools have an application deadline in a week, and most schools are closed for holidays (you said your senior year is int he US) so there is no way to get all the materials in on time anyway. The elites should be off your list. They are VERY difficult to get into, even for students with standardized test sores in range.