PLEASE CHANCE ME! International Student... WILL CHANCE BACK

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi everyone,
I'd really appreciate it if anyone could give me some feedback on my main options.</p>

<p>Stanford, UPenn, UChicago, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, Pomona, Dartmouth
Major: Business, Economics</p>

<p>About me:</p>

<p>I'm a junior from Brazil.
GPA- 3.94
IB diploma candidate (HL- Literature, Portuguese, History; SL- Biology, Film, Math)
Languages: Portuguese (native), English, French, Spanish
I haven't ever taken the SAT(I intend on taking it next month) but I got a 200 on my pSAT</p>

<p>Summer Camps:
Yale Young Global Scholars: PLE
EPGY Stanford: Business and Entrepreneurship</p>

<p>EC's:
Student Council- Class Rep, Treasurer and President in Middle School; Class Rep and Secretary for High School
NJHS Vice-President
Knowledge Bowl team member
Over 10 MUN conferences: 5 awards, 3 chairing experiences (and more to come)
Taekwondo- green belt
Swimming non-competitive
Multiple end-of-year awards (ex. Best Student for Portuguese or History)
Member of Strategic Planning Committee of my school
Volunteering in Ecuador for a sustainable reserve and a rehabilitation center for juvenile delinquents
2 Global Issues Network conferences: Peru and Ecuador, in which I presented ecological initiatives (eliminating plastic cups from campus and switching to recycled paper)
Volunteer for local Greenpeace- in charge of local blog</p>

<p>Assume my recs and essays are fine.</p>

<p>Let me know what my chances are and what I can improve in the following year to ensure admittance.</p>

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<p>Your hugest problem now is your ECs, and it takes the longest to improve. Because you don’t have test scores, every single school you listed is a reach.</p>

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<p>And even with test scores, they are reaches, but only because they are reaches for everybody…</p>

4

<p>I think all of them are reach schools…u should apply to 1 or 2 safety schools!</p>

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<p>On the right track. I think your ECs are fine, but I’m afraid for your IB diploma.
Portuguese in a brazilian person? If we talk about portuguese B it is hardly impressive…
Also, Math SL in a person planning to study Business or economics?
Film? That is useful if you are applying for art major.
The curriculum does not look very challenging. Maybe you are still in time to change some subjects. If I were you, I would study:
Economics HL
Business and management HL
Maths HL
English Literature SL
Physics/Biology SL
Any foreign language (I would go for french in your case) or portuguese A SL
After that you are pretty much set! :slight_smile:
I would say:
UPenn: Low-ish reach (if you do not mean Wharton)
UChicago: You better be a gifted writer for this one
Columbia: Reach
Princeton: High reach
Yale: High reach
Pomona: Low reach/High Match
Dartmouth: Reach
But then again, those schools are reaches for everyone!</p>

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<p>UPenn:reach (high reach if Wharton)
UChicago: depends on your essay
Columbia: reach
Princeton,Yale:high reach
Pomona: low reach
Dartmouth: reach</p>

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<p>UPenn:High Reach (but its an Ivy after all)
UChicago: Reach
Columbia: Reach
Princeton,Yale: HIgh reaches
Pomona: low reach/match
Dartmouth: Reach
I would suggest that you try Cornell? Good luck! Chance me back? <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1577930-yet-another-chance-post-check-out-maybe.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1577930-yet-another-chance-post-check-out-maybe.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;