Hi ! I’m growing increasingly worried lately about universities (my friends who have applied ED have already gotten into Oxford and Yale, to name a few…) and was wondering, well what you think my chances are for getting into these?
SATs: 1850
Not great but I had a bit of a down period (no excuse though) and didn’t end up studying, which I really regret now but what can you do.
IB predicted: 34/45
My Common App Essay was a little on the riskier side and I wrote it about mental health, but reviewed it has been good.
Recommendations: Should be good, my teachers know me well and are aware of the drop in my grades and understand why.
ECs:
Girls Rugby Training weekly
Ultimate Frisbee intramural weekly - I lead this, and also organise the school’s Sports Week
Fitness Club - gets up at 6am twice a week to do sport before classes
Community Service - pool lifeguard, swim instructor for kids (3x a week)
Led a choir of children aged 3-11, taught them songs, opened for 2 public shows
For the same 2 shows I led a dance that I choreographed as well, and was in another dance act (auditions required, around 2 months of rehearsal altogether)
School spirit committee - organised a 4 hour treasure hunt in the dark, all good feedback, a couple other events like potlucks and get-togethers, poetry slams
Others:
Organizing Committee for a school conference and mental health week (also led a workshop)
Chair for MUN conference
I speak 3 languages fluently, have been learning French as well for 8 years
Piano for 10 years
Ukulele for 2 years (self-taught)
Voice lessons
Charity events: 30 hour famine for Haiti, Japanese earthquake fundraiser, EMMAUS sleep-out for the homeless
Colleges (all RD where applicable):
UMich
Kenyon
NYU
Carleton
Reed
Colorado
UBC
McGill
U of T
Please let me know if I have missed anything out, and if you chance me post a link and I will chance you back asap
Thank you!
@IvyHopeful167 I appreciate your honesty, thank you. I meant Colorado College sorry! Forgot to mention I have a dual citizenship and am international.
@IvyHopeful167 Are they really that selective on international students? I’m sorry, I don’t know very much about the US or its admissions outside of what they have on their websites. I know my SATs drag it all down a bit but I’m a strong writer and really looking to up my IB score in the final exams, though I’m not sure how much they value the IB system…any light you could shed? Thanks so much for your help so far, I really appreciate it!
UMich - Reach
Kenyon - High Match
NYU - Reach
Carleton - Low Reach
Reed - Low Reach
Colorado - High Match
UBC - High Match
McGill - Low Reach
U of T - Low Reach
Don’t know much about Canada though
UMich - Reach
Kenyon - High match
NYU - Reach
Carleton - Low reach
Reed - Low reach
Colorado - High match
UBC - High match
McGill - High match
U of T - High match
Not sure how international status will affect you though.
Umich - reach
kenyon - low reach
nyu- reach
carleton-low reach
reed - match
colorado - match
ubc- you’re in
mcgill - they are very knit picky about stuff so I’m not too sure
u of t - match
UMich - Low Reach
Kenyon - High Match
NYU - Reach
Carleton - Low Reach
Reed - Low Reach
Colorado - High Match
UBC - High Match- sue shot
McGill - Low Reach
U of T - Reach
UMich - low reah
Kenyon - high match/match
NYU - low reach?
Carleton - Low reach
Reed - Reach
Colorado - Match
UBC - Match
McGill - Match
U of T - Match
I think the fact that you are an international student only increases your chances
UMich - reach
Kenyon - low reach
NYU- reach
Carleton-low reach
Reed - match
Colorado - match
UBC- Just wait for your acceptance, you’re in
McGill - High Match/Low Reach
U of T - match
@TrElite @ahawkins @ivyhopefulebound @Satmurthy @ImNYUobsessed @rohit7198 @12345n @GodMode Thank you so much for chancing me! I really appreciate it. Best of luck to those of you applying!
As for McGill: it’s as @tomofboston said: out of reach other than for agriculture and education, in which case are you ready to spend one year in one of these units and then transfer to another faculty?
