small town in the Middle East (countries) with non-existent income. Woot!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>As I said, Middle East, near where the troopers holla at the kid walking down the street with dirt all over.</p>

<p>So I'll pretty much be looking for full financial aid.</p>

<p>SAT(one sitting): CR 630 M 800 W 620 (1430/2050)</p>

<p>SATII (one sitting):
Math IC 780
Math IIC 740
Bio (E) 700</p>

<p>GPA 3.7 UW</p>

<p>IB Diploma Candidate (Predited Score: 42-43)</p>

<p>Rank: 10ish out of 60
(School for the gifted poor kids, $25k, full ride)</p>

<p>ECs:
Volleyball(M) team captain, went on to get 3rd in state, district MVP
Track team captain, national qualifier since soph year, several school records
Full time volunteer at the School for the Mentally Handicapped(3months)
4-year Drama Club member, 6 plays including Shakespeare ones
School newspaper, two-year editor-in-chief
Exchange Student during 2005 (fluent in multiple languages)
National Physics and Chem Olympiads </p>

<p>Recs: Probably good, but not the best, just because I dont think they were extremely eloquent writers. Im sure I was spoken highly of.</p>

<p>Essays: Uber Creative for the vast majority of the schools. Everyone loved them. Im hoping to at least minor in Creative Writing btw.</p>

<p>Plus, first person in the family to go to college.</p>

<p>Interests: Sociology, Creative Writing, Statistics</p>

<p>So my schools are:
Harvard
UPenn
Brown
Columbia (deferred for ED)
Amherst
U of Chicago
Cornell
Williams
Colgate
Vassar
Hamilton
ConnColl
Colorado</p>

<p>I will very much appreciate if you chance me, and will happily be willing to chance you in return.</p>

<p>Thanks people!</p>

<p>PS: Go Big Aristotle! The sun will rise in Phoenix.</p>

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<p>G.P.A. and SAT are good for some of the colleges, slightly low for others. </p>

<p>Middle East? School for the gifted poor kids (full ride)? First person in family to go to college (very good colleges)? You used the word Uber? Very interesting. Nice EC’s. You have some impressive advantages here. </p>

<p>I think you can into most of your colleges.</p>

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<p>thanks man. appreciate the evaluation. do you think the rank would hurt? im deff not making top %10, maybe not even %20.</p>

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<p>also, how much of a leeway would I get with the SAT cr and w scores since I am international and English is my second language?</p>

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<p>heh, your first sentence made me laugh, so i guess i should put in my $0.02 although i honestly don’t know cra.p about how admission decisions are gonna turn out especially for international students. </p>

<p>anyhoo. you seem like a very interesting person, strong ECs, test scores are pretty good. i don’t know about your SAT CR+W question, but i’m guessing that adcoms might do a comparison between you and other applicants from your area? in any case, yes it’s likely that those scores won’t hurt you much because they should understand that English is only your second language.. and scores don’t mean everything anyway (your essays should show that you can obviously communicate pretty dang well in English). rank MAY hurt a bit, but i’m not very sure, and dude your school sounds competitive enough (gifted kids? your IB predicted score?) so.. don’t worry too much about that, i guess?</p>

<p>you seem to have a decent shot at all the schools, i mean, as far as Harvard goes, it’s as much of a shot in the dark for you as it is for everyone. probably the same thing for the rest of the ivies and UChicago. that said, i do believe you stand a pretty good chance at the LACs, even at williams and amherst. i’m inclined to think you’ll be accepted at Conn, since they’re really looking to increase student diversity, but make sure that you’ve written a convincing “Why Conn” essay.. as you should have also done for the other LACs. </p>

<p>the full ride issue makes things more iffy, but i believe all the schools you’re applying to are capable of meeting the full demonstrated need even for international students, so, if they like you and decide to admit you, they’ll try their best to provide an aid package that’d enable you to attend. are you applying for fall '08? good luck! and remember, i’m just another senior so you should take my words with a grain of salt. expect the worst, but hope for the best.</p>

<p>hmm wow this was long. sorry, i tend to get really wordy sometimes.</p>

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<p>thanks man. nice length with that username of yours ;)</p>

<p>I dont believe the rank properly demonstrates where I should have been in (my school picks an array of schools for each kid individually, and we have to choose between them, since they pay for all our college application expenses, and I was the only one allowed to apply to Harvard for example.) I guess I get too caught up in the process of learning to worry much about outperforming other guys as far as the hws and tests go, but unfortunately theres no way of skillfully explaining that to the adcoms.</p>

<p>My Conn essay was about my friend from school who went to ConnColl after my freshman year, and how she would try to teach me how to properly pronounce “Connecticut”, since I knew very very little English, and how over the years the absurd challenge made a place in my mind that felt uniquely connected when the application time came along, and how I gradually learned more about it and loved.</p>

<p>It may not be the best, but I hope I made a fairly strong argument through the use of a creative approach.</p>

<p>again thanks for the evaluation</p>

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<p>I hope you haven’t said that in your application as it is a very inefficient excuse for having a lackluster rank in high school.</p>

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<p>of course not haha
as i said, theres no way one can make that into a legit excuse</p>

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<p>so can anyone else quickly llok at my stats and comment?</p>

<p>thanks people. I appreciate the help</p>