Pseudo-International looking to be chanced for Penn, Brown, and Columbia

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm a US citizen, but I've lived in India most of my life, and I'm applying from here. I wanted to know what my chances were for Penn and Brown in particular. </p>

<p>I feel my strengths are my subject rigor. In junior year, I took the full IB diploma with Physics, Chemistry, and Math HL, and self studied AP Histories on the side. That also led me to slightly mess up my 11th finals in IB, giving me a 37/42 with two 5s (equivalent of Bs) in my tests-hence my main weakness, junior year GPA.</p>

<p>Objective:
• SAT I super score: 2240(CR-750, M-760, W-730, Essay 7/12)</p>

<p>• ACT: 33(E-35, M-34, R-35, S-29, Essay:11/12)</p>

<p>• Grades:
10th-ICSE(Indian board): 95% cumulative, 96.4% best 5 aggregate.
11th-37/42 at IB with 777655
12th-41/42 predicted with 777776</p>

<p>• AP (place score in parentheses): World History(5), European History(5) (self-studied)</p>

<p>• Senior Year Course Load: Full IB Diploma</p>

<p>• Academic honors: National Merit Finalist, Merit award for ICSE and ICSE-9th</p>

<p>Extracurricular activities: </p>

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<li><p>Model UN
(President, head delegate to multiple regional/international level conferences,, train children for MUN.
Outstanding Delegate-Ivy League MUN India ‘13,
Vice Chair of international level Ivy League MUN India ‘14
Best Delegate in South Indian/Sri Lankan regional championship
3rd place at national championship,
Honorable Mention at international level Harvard MUN India)</p></li>
<li><p>Founder of a registered NGO-that trains children in English and public speaking/debate. Developed own curriculum for debate training.</p></li>
<li><p>Editor-in-Chief of school yearbook and newsletter, coordinate all literary activities in school.</p></li>
<li><p>Writing: multiple awards at regional level</p></li>
<li><p>Quiz team captain, founder, local awards </p></li>
<li><p>Debate team captain and founder local awards, organized regional qualifier for national level debate tournament.</p></li>
<li><p>Independent science projects Made irrigation system for physics class, made an android app for school’s
attendance, won astrophysics engineering design competition</p></li>
<li><p>Internship at local web design company and an internship at a web data/dev. firm, designed a web crawler-Summer after junior year and sophomore year. Wrote an android app for same company-summer after sophomore year.</p></li>
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<p>Hi - although you are a US citizen, you will likely be compared to non-citizen Indians for the purposes of admissions. </p>

<p>Your course rigor is quite nice, as well as your standardized test scores. The low GPA is somewhat compensated by your IB course load.</p>

<p>The rest of your ECs look fine. I assume you are interested in politics/history as a potential major (model UN seems to be your major EC). If so a large part of whether or not you are admitted depends on how your stats/interests are presented. Good luck</p>