<p>I read on the Applying to Barnard page that they have a Non-discrimination policy. It includes national origin, so does that mean as an international student I have equal chances to a US domestic applicant?</p>
<p>In other words, through my chance board, I have had comments that I will need better grades and SAT scores than most domestic applicants to have a chance or acceptance. Does the non-discrimination policy mean I will be able to have as good a chance as domestic applicants, with similar scores to them? </p>
<p>(Ie. theoretically applicant A from the US gets accepted and has a SAT score of 2000, would I have an equal chance with a score of 2000, or would it be better if I had a 2100+?)</p>
<p>Actually Barnard does not place nearly as much emphasis on test scores as you might think. </p>
<p>Your chances as an international applicant would be the same as any domestic applicant. The only difference is with financial aid, and that is handled entirely separately from admissions. In any case, if you don’t plan to apply for financial aid, that wouldn’t be an issue.</p>
<p>The problem with the “chances” boards on CC is that most of the people who past are students who have absolutely no clue as to how colleges look at test scores. To use your example, the “chances” of a student with an SAT of 2100 at Barnard are no different than the student with 2000… or 1900, or 2200. The scores are just not that important as a factor on their own. </p>
<p>There is a minimum score below which the chances would decrease dramatically and no, I don’t know what that is — but for most students the score is just one of many pieces of information that will be evaluated, and it will always be evaluated in the context of other factors in the application, including the student’s grades, quality of high school, student’s interests, and all of the other information such as EC’s and essays and letters of recommendation.</p>