<p>1)High school marks - high School GPA - 3.08</p>
<p>2) I have many EC’s outside the school :-
I am a student at David lloyds tennis academy
I have played soccer for 4 years in school
I have been working part time in a software company during summer vacation’s.
I have done some volunteer work at the red Cross charity foundation.
I can swim , play basketball , soccer , squash , tennis , Table tennis , cricket .
I have done a lot of babysitting for my cousins
I have taken a skydiving course in Genting,Malaysia</p>
<p>3) SAT 1 - 2000</p>
<p>I am an International Student . I plan to do an Undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and hope to get into a good university/college. Please suggest me a few ways by which i can get into a good university and also universitys i should apply to.</p>
<p>Note- I wont be applying for financial aid. It’s not necessary that it should be a university in the U.S. </p>
<p>I have a 90% in my final year . I have taken the most difficult subjects available in my school. Namely- physics , chemistry , maths , english , economics . I have been studying in a CBSE curriculum school.</p>
<p>Bear in mind that international students who can pay full freight are very much in demand. Those who need aid are usually put at the bottom of the list.</p>
<p>thanks for the info. But can u people be a bit more specific . My school does not have a counselor. My queries are:- </p>
<p>1)What are my chances at the US , UK and canadian Universities ?</p>
<p>2)Which all universities should i apply to ?</p>
<p>3)What can i do inorder to get into a good university. Apllying for Fall 2010</p>
<p>P.S.- I want to get into a university with good academic reputation,super job placement,degree recognised nationally and internationally and good facilites. All in 1 - A prestigious university !</p>
<p>I appreciate reading that there may be hope …</p>
<p>S just got his ACT scores. 33. No prep, no practice.</p>
<p>We also got his progress report. 3 A’s, 2 B’s, a C+ (Spanish 4 - hates the subject & the teacher), and a D+ (AP Euro - loves the subject & the teacher). Until this, his junior year, he had a 3.89. I have explained the importance of grades at least somewhat matching scores - and the importance of having at least an EC or two - I might as well be talking to myself. Oh, wait - I am.</p>
<p>The worst thing is, he wants PharmD, so the options are not as wide-ranging as they are for others. I do hope he ends up with some affordable options next year.</p>
<p>Jackie, I do have Naviance, but the counselor is saying that you can’t use Naviance because the economic downturn has affected the admissions rates at all the public schools, and students that may have been accepted two years ago were not accepted this year.</p>
<p>Of course, maybe she is being overly negative. Her own kid is Ivy League educated, and I think she looks down a bit on kids who aren’t of that caliber.</p>
<p>If there were a way to have Naviance only show me this year, that would be great…but it can’t be done…</p>
<p>I wouldn’t nec take the word of the GC at face value. My son’s GC (he applied to 20 some schools w/a 3.01 uw, high test scores) gave us not a whit of reassurance and just said “things are more competitive these days.” 10 acceptances later (with two full-tuition scholarships & 2 honors invites) I can look back and say, “well, I guess she was being conservative.”</p>
<p>The way we approached my son’s senior year was to start with the safety schools - in state. Then the “within reach” schools and then the “reach” schools. He ended up applying to 13 schools - was accepted at 8, waitlisted at 2 and rejected at 3. He was satisfied with the outcome. He is currently in the car with his father on the way to Carnegie Mellon and then I and my son will be going out to Northwestern at the end of the month. We have another younger son at home, so we all can’t go. His grades are stellar - a 4.0 - but his SAT I was only a 2090 and the ACT was a 33 and he was still accepted to Carnegie Mellon and Northwestern - both great schools. I do think that they do look at the entire package when analyzing a student. Grades, standardized tests, EC’s, Interview, and Essays. As you can see by the IVY decision boards - there is no shoe in. The are many, many students with perfect SAT’s getting rejected. Find the right fit for your child and apply to those schools. Also, visit as many as you can. We visited Tufts and didn’t even finish the school tour - both my son and I did not like the “feeling” there, so we left. Visiting a school is a great way to see if the school is right for your child. I have to say though - it is one of the most stressfull processes ever - so do your homework and be prepared - that is the best advise I could give. And good luck to the class of 2014.</p>
<p>I was thinking the same thing - in what school is a 4.0 a B+? Do all of the student’s efforts in school fade in the parent’s mind when the SAT is a “mere” 2090?</p>
<p>I was merely trying to say that colleges look at the whole package of the application - not just your child’s B+ average. But I guess you didn’t take it that way.</p>
<p>Sue (or anyone)…that college data site is great, but I don’t get part of it. I’m looking at the page for UConn, and then I found a kid with similar stats to my son but it says “not applied”. If they haven’t applied, why are they on the UConn page? Confused…can anyone explain?</p>