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Heyyyyy can you please review what are my chances of getting into Yale, Columbia and NYU? I’ll rank you back!

I’m an international student applying from Argentina (where it is really difficult to get As in class!)

Uw gpa: 9 out of 10 (second highest gpa in my class)
My school does not offer extra credit for challenging classes
Ib: predicted 41 (3 tok, 6 business and management hl, 7 english a hl, 7 spanish a hl, 6 biology sl, 6 math sl, 6 history sl)
I am taking the most challenging classes available
I am fluent in four languages (english, spanish, french and portugese)
I am considered hispanic
I am not a first generation college applicant
Sat: 1990 (670 cr, 680 math, 640 wr)
Sat 2: 800 math, 800 spanish, 750 biology e
Letters of recommendation: absoluteky outstandig (from maths and english teachers)

Extracutriculars:
Debate (president of my school’s tram, reserve of the national team that travels to the world schools debating championship)
Maths (finalist of the national math high school olympics for all 5 years of high school, invited tomparticipate in the iberoamerican math olympics held in Chile)
Class president durimg all 5 years of high school
Started a junior achievement company along with 25 people in my class (elected president)
Swimming (member of the school’s team that won the past 5 interschool cometitions)
Pro skier
Argentinian interschool essay competition (120 schools participate, essays are written in english) (participated 5 years and won 3 honourable mentions and 2 certificates of merit) honourable mention= 3 place, merit= 4th place
Volunteer at Techo (organization in charge of building provisional homes to exteremely poor people in Argentina)
United nations model (participated in 5 competitions)
School play (lead singer and writer of a play about the jewish holocaust that was presented for +2000 people from 35 schools)

Please be honest!!! I can handle a no for an answer!

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@cindytufts Hey! I don’t know what a 9/10 GPA equates to, but if you’re ranked #2, I assume it’s good :).

Your ECs seem fine, but while your SAT scores are great, they are on the low side for where you want to apply. Your SAT II scores, on the other hand, are excellent and will definitely mitigate the SAT score.

Your chances are…
NYU - high match – your SAT is a bit below average here, and NYU has a small endowment and is not that generous with financial aid, so run the Net Price calculator to find out how much it would cost and if money is an issue.
Columbia and Yale - reach – Ivies are a reach for just about everyone. You shouldn’t necessarily cross them off the list, but understand that gaining admission is very tough, even for people coming in with 2250s and 4.0s.

Best of luck!

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Columbia and Yale: SAT not competitive. Probably not even a high reach.

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@notjoe I wouldn’t say so. Take a look at prior Results threads for these colleges and you will see people with 1900s and even 1800s getting in, while people with 2300s get rejected.

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@EIC2400 Most of those people have extreme hooks (athletic, legacy, URM). But even as a URM, a 1990 SAT score is not competitive enough for admission unless you have an amazing application.