<p>Canadian Student from a small BC town.
Male, Caucasian</p>
<p>Admitted to University of Toronto Rotman School of Management (taking a gap year and deciding to apply to some US schools during this time)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.9 unweighted (Average: 88% unweighted, 94% weighted) -Top 5% in grad class
Only 1 AP (my school didn't offer more than one): 4/5 English Literature
I want to take a few more AP courses in my gap year/year off
SAT: 2150
SAT II: Math 1 (expecting high 700's), Physics (expecting 700-750)</p>
<p>EC:
-Shad Valley Alumni/RBC Entrepreneurship Cup Representative
-Cross Cultural Solutions Volunteer (4 weeks in Brazil teaching English)
-BDC Enterprize Shad Valley Representative (National Business Conference hosted by UBC)
-Owner of two ecommerce websites and a freelance web designer/programmer with dozens of business contracts
-Competitive soccer player (team has placed high in Provincials/same as state, and the highest league in my city)
-Over 500 hours of volunteer work/tutoring
-Work experience with Club Penguin/Disney as a junior animator and designer, as well as tons of experience in high intensity labor work/plumbing.
-Partner/Owner of a non-profitable organization that aims to protect and help women who are abused and left with little to no money in divorce settlements
-A bunch of in school academic awards and stuff.</p>
<p>I want nothing more than to be a successful business-man, perhaps an investment banker, accountant, or stockbroker and would like to know my chances at the following business schools in the US:</p>
<p>UPenn (Wharton)
MIT (Sloan)
New York University (Stern)
UMichigan (Ross)
UC Berkeley (Haas)
UTexas (McCombs)
UVirgnia (McIntire)
Notre Dame (Mendoza)
Stanford - not undergrad business but my dream school
Cornell (AEM)
Emory (Goizueta)
Boston College (Carroll)</p>
<p>UPenn (Wharton) - Probably not.
MIT (Sloan) - Probably not.
New York University (Stern) - You've got a shot.
UVirgnia (McIntire) - Ehh.. maybe.
Stanford - Probably not.
Cornell (AEM) - Probably not.</p>
<p>Sorry, some of them I just have no idea. Your SAT score isn't that fantastic and your GPA isn't amazing but its pretty good. I'd say give some of the schools a shot if you really want to go to them. It's a crapshoot.</p>
<p>Berkeley -- no, anyway Haas lets one in after 2nd year. You could try and then apply once you were there.</p>
<p>The only clear "probably" I saw on your list was UT Austin. Maybe NYU. UVA: see how many international students they let in and what their profile is.</p>
<p>Stern is my top choice as well. Your SATs are a little higher than mine but i did a chance thread a while ago and they said NYU is a possibility or slight reach for me. I also have a ton of investing/finance experience and my essay will be geared towards that, so hopefully i'll get in. PLUS, ill probably be applying ED. =] </p>
<p>Out of the ones you picked, i see the strong possiblities as BC, UVA, Utexas, notre dame. (I dont know emory) All the others are slight reaches / reaches.</p>
<p>Alex-M, you should be happy to know that 14% of UVA McIntire students are international students. When you look at the other schools highlighted by Business Week, they also have comparable international student populations. Berkeley is 13% while Wharton is 23%.</p>
<p>First, you should do your research and decide what type of program you want. Some schools are 4 year programs (Wharton & Stern), some are 3 years where you apply to get in after your first year (Ross), and some are 2 year programs where you apply during your sophomore year (McIntire) so that you get 2 years of liberal arts along with business. </p>
<p>Re. ED, I think you can do that with all the schools you're interested in except UVA. It no longer has ED, only RD.</p>
<p>NYU's ED policy is described by their adcoms as: If you're qualified you'll probably get in. To clarify, they do not have a strict number they accept ED (though obviously they will not fill their entire class with EDers), meanwhile if you apply RD there are a limited number of spots, so even if you're qualified the chances of you getting in are not as high. In terms of stats and stuff though the bars are the same.</p>
<p>Another thing to keep in mind is that NYU is a very expensive school, and unless you're willing to incur lots of debt / your family is wealthy / your e-commerce sites are flush with cash, I would not suggest ED because they give very little financial aid to EDers. </p>
<p>I'd say you have a shot at about half of the schools on your list, but I wouldn't say you're a lock at any of them except maybe BC, or Stern ED.</p>