<p>hey are you from Roots? I think I indirectly know you :P</p>
<p>hey guys, i have no idea why i never thought there’d be a paki thread on CC…
so seriously, no early acceptances?</p>
<p>@freakozoid, i saw your stats somewhere and they are unbelievable(in a good way), how come you didnt get into standford, stats like yours!!</p>
<p>chance me fellow Paki applicants 
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1079059-chance-me-ambitious-applicant.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1079059-chance-me-ambitious-applicant.html</a></p>
<p>@Confidential2015: no problem! i’ve always wanted to visit Nepal. do tell us more about your country. :)</p>
<p>@freakozoid: i think all of us know that. but the SAT is important nonetheless. a 2300+ score from Pakistan (where maybe 20 people score that in a year) stands out. which is why I retook it from a 2250. on the issue of that guy getting into Yale with a 2070, you have to understand that happens everywhere in pakistan. yale accepts anyone a top school backs, regardless of their ability to form one coherent sentence. i think MIT did the same a couple years back when they accepted the head-boy and head-girl of st pats, both of whom were extremely unremarkable (as PARTLY evidenced from their SAT scores which were <2000).</p>
<p>this is just a ranking based on one metric guys. lol, there’s no need to discuss the validity of SAT scores. :P</p>
<p>Updated School Rankings</p>
<p>Pakistan
Rank= 1. KGS 2350 - (Note: Yale SCEA acceptee)
Rank= 2. Roots 2300 -
Rank= 3. Lyceum 2270
Rank= 4. St. Pats 2240
Rank= 5. Saint Mary’s 2190 (This is disputed) / Nixor 2190 </p>
<p>Nepal
Rank= 1. confidential2015’s neighbour 2400 - seen</p>
<p>exactly a guy with 2060 or something like that got into MIT last year from Roots :O</p>
<p>i know a guy with 2290 in SAT I, and an A, B, and “E” in A levels who got into MIT…</p>
<p>2290 is still well above the average score there …</p>
<p>yea its a good score. but still, an E!!</p>
<p>and A Level grades are not sent to MIT. Only the Final term grades are, so superbly messing up on your A Levels will not have any effect on your admission to any US college.</p>
<p>^^ A level grades come out 4 months after decisions are released. you could get straight C’s and harvard etc. wouldn’t care.
what matters is your transcript and how many A level classes you’ve taken (and how well you’ve done in them). CIE grades are very important but they’re secondary to the transcript.</p>
<p>im talking about his AS levels. sorry i wrote A levels above.</p>
<p>i’m gonna have to totally disagree with you pakipower, on this: "what matters is your transcript and how many A level classes you’ve taken (and how well you’ve done in them)‘’…you can suck on the assessments held by your school and still get straight A’s in the finals you know.</p>
<p>i know. anyone can get straight A’s in the CIE exams these days. they’ve become a total joke now. but internal assessments are graded very harshly, especially at top schools (although, i abhor the inflation practices at some of these schools).</p>
<p>I have seen many people adding courses they have never even taken in their commonapp’s just to fill up the space and make their coursework look big and demanding but as long as they dont have it on the official CIE results… it doesnt really matter right ? its useless?</p>
<p>^that is an extremely bad thing to do…if such a person is accepted and enrolls and his college later finds out his CIEs then he’ll be in big trouble.</p>
<p>wow, that’s insane haha. at my school that would be grounds for suspension at least. </p>
<p>and yes, your course-load matters a lot. if you can do really well in 5-6 A level classes, you seem ready for the rigour of a college education. just my opinion though. </p>
<p>also, colleges don’t care about AP scores; they just evaluate the grades in the internal classes. does my argument make sense now? :)</p>
<p>As long as his school records them in the transcript, mid-year or final report its all good. One need not appear for the A levels even.</p>
<p>@pakipower, but aren’t internal assessments usually just from the past papers. poeple just rush off to tuition centres and get all the past papers like ‘rattafied’ and get great marks on midterms etc.</p>
<p>well many many of my friends did it … and the thing is their schools also support this… like they put up grades for that subject on their transcript but as long as they dont appear for it in their A levels… its just useless… and it actually might work against you no ?</p>
<p>@S2DaGh, have you ever seen that happen? what you’re saying i.e?</p>