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<p>Your stats are good. Your grades seem a bit low however, but that may be just how you do it in Canada. And the fac that you are an international applicant may hurt, but it’s Canada and the distinction between US and Canada may be negligible. Your EC’s are good, but nothing out of the ordinary of a standard Ivy applicant. Cornell ED is match. The other Ivies are reaches. NYU is a low match. Duke is a reach as well. JHU is a high match and CMU is a match.
Chance me back.
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<p>OP, do not be fooled by the above statement. All of the schools on your list are reaches. If you can get into Waterloo CS, you would be well served.</p>
<p>Your chances for the colleges in your list are the same as everyone else (assuming they don’t deflate your grades when considering your application). The fact that your high school only has one AP class tells me that the overall competitiveness of the school is not very high. If your school had IB, you should have been looking at that option. Based on my kid’s experiences, your 90% would translate to 80% in competitive public high schools in California. </p>
<p>You may get in somewhere but be prepared for a very large adjustment.</p>
<p>@menefrega From wikipedia, I think canadian marks are added by 8% because an 85 over here is an A, verses a 93 in US. tbh i really dnt know but I think my ACT will be weighted heavier in this situation, would it not?</p>
<p>OP - first two DD came out of Canadian high schools. Last DD went through the US school system. </p>
<p>One DD had marks similar to yours. The other DD had marks higher than yours. Both struggled when they entered the US college system. Neither was looking at colleges of the caliber that you are looking at. </p>
<p>An 85% in Canada cannot be equated to a 93% in the US system. Don’t be fooled by the different scales between Canada and the US.</p>
<p>The preparation you have received in the Canadian school system is reflected in your Reading (28) and English (32) scores. While the scores are above average, this part of preparation will be your achilles heal if you attend a US college. You’ve maxed out your science and math scores which most techies can do. They are the sections that you can raise the most so good job there. Raising your reading and english scores is a lot harder to do; both on the ACT and the SAT. </p>
<p>Last DD got a 36 on Reading and a 35 on English because she was prepared for it within the US high school system. D2 tried to transfer as a sophomore and got pummeled in the US high school. We had to have her finish up in Canada - then remediate Math and English via a CC before entering a 4-year college. </p>
<p>None of this is meant to dissuade you. It’s meant to give you the best advice based on recent experiences in the US.</p>
<p>One thing about chance me threads tho is we can all realistically chance ourselves. We know our own ECs with more detail than we could put in a thread, and we can’t really describe the quality of our essays either. If anything, we can chance ourselves much better than others can for us… Also what makes no sense to me is when somebody posts a link to their own chance me right after chancing someone else and the schools they’re applying to are of a very similar selectivity. </p>
<p>@menefrega I would say that the Achilles heal would be the reading, not english. The only thing however is that there was a study done that said english and math scores are the best determinants of college success, if that is the case, then my score is very good. I just cant seem to believe that you judge my school’s level of difficult through just my reading and english score, overall, I still have a top score. What I assumed was that if my grades were good enough for Waterloo’s Math program, then they are good enough for the ivies, I see some scales saying that a 4.0 is a 97%, in Canada, nobody will have a 97% avg throughout the three years, if so, i will tip my hat off to this person. The reason im also saying a 4.0= 85+ is because of the website foreigncredits.com and my GC said she called a NCAA recruiter and he said that a 4.0 = 80+ and she showed me this sheet. I would assume my grades are fine for Cornell, i’d think i would have atleast 3.8 GPA converted.</p>
<p>@menefrega also the overall preparationI have received in my high school cannot be judged through just my english and reading scores. My english score is still very good, the reading… not so much. Also, Waterloo is a top school and arguably better than most schools on my list for TEM, not necessarily S. And you maybe wondering why I would go to a US school if thats the case, the reason is that there are more opportunities, plus Waterloo isn’t too big on research, their co-op is the best in the world though. Furthermore, the student teacher ratios are much lower in the US. there are other reasons, but those are a few. Why would you say that my 90’s would turn to 80’s??? My scores say that I would in fact do very well in the US system, my math and science marks would be higher than my english, but my emglish marks would not be low. This is just an assumption based on the objective of standardized tests however please feel free to respond to this as I too want to know other ways to compare US and Canadian marks.</p>
<p>Princeton, brown, upenn, uchic and duke are low reach-reach. Good luck though. You definitely are a strong candidate, just much stronger for the other schools you listed.</p>
<p>@iAmTheGOAT ty, can u predict which schools I will get into pls, ty?</p>
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