International applicant from Chile
1530 SAT (780 R&W, 750 Math)
780 SAT World History, 790 SAT French
6.53/7 GPA, officially translated as 4.0 Unweighted, but I’m not sure how each college interprets it
112 TOEFL, above the 99th percentile in all three secondary leaving examinations we have in Chile.
Two national awards (One in economics, in which I won first place, and one in Litigation, in which I lost the final and got second place)
ECs: 3 years of debate, a year in student government, founder of largest political movement in school, a lot of volunteering hours through a religious organization, yearbook on senior year, studied a summer abroad, tutored in math for a year, and was a part of the mountaineering club.
Essays: I’m really proud of my Common App essay and everyone I’ve shown it to says it’s really good. Most of my supplements are average to poor. Some are good though.
Letters: One is amazing, really personal, filled with examples and overall a very strong endorsement (by my debate teacher). My counselor probably wrote something formulaic, but I trust it’s fine. My history teacher sent his letter in Spanish so I’m not sure how they’ll evaluate that.
Planning to double major in Economics and Anthropology
Applying to Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Stanford, NYU, Stony Brook, UCB, UMiami, USC, and Vanderbilt.
I know most of these are hard reaches, but as my safety option is staying here in Chile it’s not too bad if I get rejected from all of them. I hope shotgunning was useful though.
Oh, and I applied for financial aid in every one of these.
So, what do you say?