<p>Hi! I would really appreciate if you guys could chance me :)</p>
<p>I am an international student (living in Oslo, Norway) applying for an undergraduate degree at:</p>
<p>Harvard
Columbia
Yale
Williams
Amherst
Dartmouth </p>
<p>I am an IB student predicted to get 44 out of 45 points with subjects:
English A Higher Level score: 7/7
History Higher Level score: 7/7
Norwegian B Higher Level score: 7/7
Chemistry Standard Level score: 7/7
Physics Standard Level score: 6/7
Mathematics Standard Level score: 7/7
To give a total of 41/42 + an expected three points for my EE and TOK which gives 44/45</p>
<p>I do not know if you guys know too much about the IB but it translates into an almost perfect GPA.</p>
<p>Top of my class 1/40</p>
<p>My SATs did not go to great, but I tried my best:</p>
<p>I will receive fantastic letters of reccomnedations from teachers who really enjoy teaching me.</p>
<p>My essay will be about my international background where I have lived in 5 different countries in four different continents, and my experience going different international schools my entire life. I think it was a great essay.</p>
<p>EC:</p>
<p>-Teaching the Middle East conflict to those in 10th and 11th grade at my school
-Considered an expert in the Middle East by teachers and student body at my school being asked to hold sessions for the teaching staff as well
-Member of the model United Nations club at my school
-Member of the Drama productions at my school for past six years (including main roles for two of those years, and acting in theatre festivals in Edinburgh, Scotland)
-Member of the school marketing team, worked with Dynamo Marketing
-Member of the school newspaper and developed the school FB group
-Played competitive soccer for 6 years now, trial at an elite club
-Vigorous cross-country, jogging training
-President of the student council in 9th and 10th grade</p>
<p>The SAT’s make all of the schools reaches, and AMherst and Williams maybe a low reach/high match. Good luck though, I am also in I.B and your IB scores are very outstanding. what is your GPA?</p>
<p>everything looks great, though your SAT is a little low. i’m not sure if the deadline has passed, but if it hasn’t it might be worthwhile to take the SAT again in January since bumping up your score a little bit would vastly improve your chances. i’d say high reach for harvard and yale b/c they are for anyone, then low reach for columbia, dartmouth and amherst, and high match for williams. all will go up if you improve your scores.</p>
<p>These schools are all high reaches, especially for an international. The scores are too low without a hook. They might overlook a lower than average CR score, but not from someone taking HL English.</p>
<p>I would add some schools where your scores are above median.</p>
<p>you seriously don’t know how to calculate your GPA? ok, google GPA calculator, and it will calculate it for you. Do you have straight A’s, or what?</p>
<p>I think everything looks great except for the SATs. But, I think your international background may end up making up for that in the end. Good luck!</p>
<p>Alright thanks for your input, but my scores are all within the 20-25 percentile for each school. Im sure tht diminishes my chances, but is it really a no-go for all the schools?</p>
<p>if you’re a predicted 44, go ahead and apply. there have been people who have had a 43/44 predicted without extremely high SAT scores who have got into yale, stanford, etc. so i would definitely say APPLY. Ivies like IB students, but it’ll obviously be hard, because they’re choosy.</p>
<p>It was my first and only sitting taking the SAT’s, I made a serious planning error, but i will try to raise it now in January for the ivies, amherst and williams wont accept these scores :/</p>
<p>I have applied to far more “safer” schools in the UK and received offers from good schools there. However, I am really passionate about studying at these great American schools so I decided to apply to them, and I did not choose any safeties for the States, because I didnt want to travel all the way to the US if I could attend a similarly good school closer in the UK.</p>
<p>Thanks I’ll chance you guys back right now :)</p>
it can’t hurt at least</p>