<p>distinctions… interview calls… damn you guys make me seem very below-average</p>
<p>^ interview calls aren’t much of a big deal, more like standard admission procedure.</p>
<p>well then I guess my application wasnt standard :P</p>
<p>JUST GOT AN OFFER FOR INTERVIEW FROM PRINCETON! XD Don’t care that about 95% of the applicants (as per my interviewer) get this offer, but it still feels extraordinary to me! Esp since I had such good fun in my Harvard interview…</p>
<p>@ Shahan- LCAT? What’s that? 
hahaha XD I know the absolute minimum about US high school education and board exams- just enough to fill out my application and really badly want to attend the schools I’ve applied to, LOL!</p>
<p>@ Titan- ROFL…now that’s a real laugh. I read this thread and wonder every time why I even applied when there are clearly better qualified people who deserve to go. So, don’t beat yourself up with negative thoughts…that’s just the best and worst things about applying to top-tier schools- even a world distinction can’t guarantee your admission, simply because it cannot determine who you are =D</p>
<p>@Shahan03 and JockingMay: and 1 Stanford.
and quite a large number of offers from LSE Imperial UCL and stuff.</p>
<p>@Shahan03: Well alot of these schools are either affiliated to Judaism or Christianity, and may require a lot of religious requirements, such as required classes, chapel attendance, and moral requirements, that would probably be problematic for someone from another faith.</p>
<p>And you need to consider Islamophobia… It might be higher in some Christian sects.</p>
<p>@leo118 CONGRATS AND GOOD LUCKK.
My best friend had hers yesterday and it went really well. Hope yours do too 
When’s it?</p>
<p>Also the LCAT is the LUMS entrance test</p>
<p>Chance me!
Was born in pakistan but moved to Singapore, and moved to America 2 years ago. Am a singaporean citizen.
SAT: 2275 ( plan on getting 2300 +)
EC’s
Member of MUN.
Member of First Robotics
Member of FBLA
Participated in many Olympaids.
Started Cricket club in school.
Member of tennis varsity.</p>
<p>I take the toughest classes for sophomore year : Honors Algebra 2, Honors Language Arts and Literacy, Honors physics, Advanced Computer Programming and Latin.</p>
<p>I have volunteered at Edhi in Pakistan and for my essay, I plan on writing about one of the tests offered in Singapore that realy dictates your life and how I was preparing to take it but luckily moved here (people suicide due to it in 6th grade)
Or perhaps how i survived from a bomb explosion in Pakistan.
Guys, please help me out here.
I plan on applyin to Princeton, MIT, CalTech, UCberkely, Rutgers and Oxford.
Tell me what I can do to beef up my application</p>
<p>@Hassaniman: 2275 on the SAT? That’s not even possible! I smell something fishy!</p>
<p>^ I was just going to point that out myself. Lol.</p>
<p>■■■■■ alert!</p>
<p>@Shahan- interview’s tom! Will let you guys know how it goes =)</p>
<p>BTW, general query- do internationals get likely letters?</p>
<p>Everybody seems to be talking about them on the Ivy forums, so its my new daydream to get one :P</p>
<p>Shahan: As far as BYU is concerned, it provides a good education at a cheap price, but the cost can be higher for non LDS. For one, tution rates for non LDS are higher. Also, the university has been becoming less tolerant of non LDS, for example, by forcing non LDS to take the same classes on mormonism as the LDS students:</p>
<p>[BRIGHAM</a> YOUNG UNIVERSITY (BYU) book of mormon course](<a href=“http://www.truthandgrace.com/byubomcourse.htm]BRIGHAM”>BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY (BYU) book of mormon course)</p>
<p>In a lot of ways, the LDS culture is like Muslim culture, in that it’s followers do not consume alcohol and pork. They have strict decency dress codes and rules against sex outside of marriage etc. However, anyone who has lived in the USA also knows they actively and openly preach and try to convert. They ride around on bicycles all over America, wearing white shirts and black pants knocking on doors and trying to spread their religion. I would say, they are like the tablighi jamaat of Christianity. This can be fun if you like discussions on religion. A lot of Americans will slam the door on their faces. However, giving them the power to grade you in college on knowledge of their faith is certainly not my idea of fun or an education.</p>
<p>I really got a 2275/2400 on the SAT… I took it 3 months ago… What the heck guys… Please help me out since I’m dying out here coz I really wanna know about my chances… I live in NJ.
Here is my breakdown
Math: 750
Writing: 740
CR: 785</p>
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<p>I thought you still have 3 more years and yet here you are dying?</p>
<p>Just btw, one more Bates acceptance from Roots (in ED2)…my best friend actually.</p>
<p>mind sharing his stats?</p>
<p>Let’s have a fake chance thread competition. If you think my thread is better than Hassaniman’s, give me a +1.
Name: Daniel James Poliovsky
SAT score: 2325 (not enough to get me into Monash , inside joke, lol)
GPA: 4.99 (unweighted, on a 4.0 scale but I got a 4.99 cuz I’m 1337!)
Class rank: 1 / 666
APs: Latin (5), Biology (5, self-study), Art History (5), Spanish (5), AP Calculus AB and BC (self study 5), Chemistry (5, self-study), Physics B and C (5, self-study), Computer Science A (5, self-study), French (5), English (5, self-study), Geography (2, stupid paper didn’t get leaked!), Environmental Science (5)</p>
<p>Awards:
Pimp of the Year Award (3X champion), Punk of the Year Award (4X champion), Womanizer of the Year Award (given by my Latin teacher to the best ladies man. He says that I look like George Clooney. He also has defective vision), 4X IMO Gold medalist, 3X IPhO Gold medalist, 1X IPhO silver medalist (details below), AP Scholar with Distinction</p>
<p>Hobbies:
Rapping, Flirting, Slapping a fat guy’s belly and then paying him to belly dance, trolling on CC, making stupid jokes.</p>
<p>ECs:
Own 3 businesses, all of which earn above 100000 dollars a year (they’re actually my cousin’s businesses, but it can’t hurt to pretend that I own them!)
Active poster on CC with a +2 rating so far. Obtained LEGEND status recently.
Class President
Founder of Math club and president
Founder of Alpha Sigma Sigma fraternity and president
Founder of Zeta Alpha Tau fraternity and vice president (stupid president!)
Mock Trial: State Champion, national semi-finalist
Helped poor children in Luxembourg whose parents couldn’t afford to buy them Mercedes cars and who had to settle for those stupid and useless BMWs
Leader of Discipline Committee at school (I punish fat kids for going above the weight limit)
Worked at McDonalds and threw burgers at customers
National Honor Society
Full-time employee at Microsoft
Varsity tennis State Champion
Varsity Soccer State Champion
In School band, play piano, state finalists, played in Carnegie Hall
Internship at advanced research facility in my city
Published 3 research papers with renowned professors, such as Shoaib Malik (wife of Sania Mirza), Salman Butt (renowned cricket player who got unjustly banned), and Veena Malik (smartest woman in Pakistan)
Founder of GET BACK TO THE KITCHEN CLUB that promotes gender equality</p>
<p>Essays: I wrote about how the Chinese guys made fun of me for getting a silver medal at the IPhO and how that impacted me (9/10)
I wrote about how unjust parents are towards their kids and how cruel they are towards them when they don’t buy them iPhone 4s after they get Ds in their exams. I think it showed uniqueness and my true personality. (10/10)
I wrote about how modest I am and how I do my best to promote equality everywhere (10/10)
Applied to: CalTech (safety), CMU, JHU, Duke, Yale, Princeton, Cambridge, Oxford, UCB, UChicago, Stanford, Harvard (safety), Monash (rejected)
Major: East African Studies (Yeah!)</p>
<p>PLEASE CHANCE ME! PLEASE CHANCE ME! I’M SO DESPERATE! I HAVE FAR TOO MUCH FREE TIME ON MY HANDS! I HAVE 5 YEARS LEFT B4 COLLEGE! CHANCE ME CHANCE ME!</p>
<p>You forgot to mention that you’re a legend on CC.</p>
<p>Oh yeah. So is my thread better than Hassaniman’s?</p>
<p>Duh. But you shouldn’t have applied to Monash, you were obviously gonna get rejected.</p>
<p>Yeah, I know. It was a bit of a reach school for me. My counselllor encouraged me to apply there, but I knew I wasn’t going to make it. Of course, F.S. (your best buddy) will get in eventually.</p>