My chances for UChicago, Dart (ED), Harvard and Princeton?

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>I am an 'international' student in PR China. </p>

<p>in the best school in shanghai,
3 of 280,
Toefl 660, SAT V: 650, M: 800</p>

<p>President and founder of School Policy Revision Grp, Captain of English Debate (very scarce in china, reported on local media) varsity team, chief of enviornment department of student government</p>

<p>captain of school's men's soccer team and table tennis team</p>

<p>2th place national award holder of chinese chess, many english awards, an enviroment science 1st award in shanghai</p>

<p>student representitive to meet various nations' consuls to shanghai, and admissions officer from dart, yale, duke and uchicago</p>

<p>volunteer work for 4 years, 2 companies (english tutoring and tranlating docs)
founder of 2 grps in community</p>

<p>most of the activities above for 4 years' engagement</p>

<p>And i want to hear your idea of my chance to get in Uchicago (no financial aid), dart (ed and full aid), Harvard and Princeton (both need blind to int'l students)</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

2

<p>I'd say your most likely in at dartmouth. And since your applying ED there, and I feel you can get in... no need to talk about the others :)</p>

3

<p>UChicago will depend heavily on how well you present yourself as a young, involved intellectual, and less heavily on your numbers.</p>

4

<p>Thanks kinglin!</p>

<p>Fiddlefrog, what do you mean by 'numbers'? Do you refer to my scores?</p>

5

<p>And what about my chances of UChicago, Harvard and Princeton if defered or denied by Dart? Anyone has ideas?</p>

6

<p>Probably in at UChicago....Harvard and Princeton are less likely. You have a better chance at Dartmouth. Just my 2 cents. Good luck. :)</p>

7

<p>Thx blaineko!</p>

<p>And can anyone tell me my match schools? And what about my chances of Duke, Cornell, Amherst, Swat and Williams with needbased financial aid?</p>

<p>thanks</p>

8

<p>Anyone gets ideas?</p>

9

<p>Just chill out, I have a good feeling you can get into Dartmouth. But is that the school you want to go to most? Or do you just want to apply ED there, cause you feel you have the best chance?</p>

10

<p>Uh... I like Dartmouth... Yeah kinglin, you are right. Dartmouth is not the school I want to go most. I apply there because I am not confident about getting financial aid from US colleges.</p>

11

<p>And I have just finished the interview of Dart. I like that interviewer so much.</p>

12

<p>Harvard gives out good aid. What about WUSTL? They give out a ton.</p>

13

<p>Yeah, that's right, kinglin! Thank you! But.. because of its location (WashU is in the certer of USA), I probably will not apply there. I perfer north east colleges where I can have lots of interactions with students of other colleges nearby!</p>

14

<p>kinglin, I notice you are in St. Louis now. That will be a big advantage in applying to WUSTL. Goodluck!</p>

15

<p>Nah, I'd say it's more of a disadvantage, or if anything, doesn't help nor hurt. The reason why is cause they have about 90% of students out of state, and when I went to tour wustl, they made a big deal about geographic diversity.</p>

16

<p>Yeah I see. But I think admissions officers of colleges have a preference for local citizens. Good luck!</p>

17

<p>2th = 2nd? lol :-P, I'd say youre in at Dartmouth too...but those admissions offices are so crazy, you never know. One theory is that they throw all the apps into one room, cover a monkey with double sided tape, and throw him into the app. room. Once enough apps stick to the monkey, they've gotten their freshman class :-P.</p>

18

<p>Oh really? Next time I will throw bottles of glue on my application forms so that they will stick to anything: the admissions officer and the monkey. I will force them to read it.</p>

19

<p>I am still not confident to get in Dartmouth... You know my parents only want to afford 8,000 USD a year at this school. Maybe I am asking for too much. I am currently getting ready for other schools: Williams and Amherst. And Duke.</p>

20

<p>I'm liking the monkey theory. I had an idea that they put a herd of nervous yaks in the room, and the applications that don't have yak urine on them within an hour get in. Mmm...yaks.</p>

<p>You have good numbers for Dartmouth, but their international competition is FIERCE. It also helps to be able to pay your own way (international is not need blind there). So you just might be SOL. </p>

<p>And that's not really a good reason to do ED (since it's, like, binding and all). You wanna make SURE that you REALLY wanna go there to make that kind of commitment. You shouldn't do it to give yourself an edge or because you're afraid of not getting aid (which, incidentally, causes a lot of people NOT to apply ED).</p>