UCB, Cornell and UIUC Chances ?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Please chance me for Regular decision UCB, Cornell and UI Urbana Champaign ?</p>

<p>Indian Student Male
Intended Major :: Computer Engineering</p>

<p>9th Grade :: 85%
10th Grade :: 94% (Board Examinations)
11th Grade :: 88%</p>

<p>SAT :: 1950
SAT II :: 800, 760 Math II and Physics</p>

<p>TOEFL :: 111 </p>

<p>Extra Curricular ::</p>

<p>Member of State Team in 2 sports, Highschool captain too. </p>

<p>Best Athlete Award in 12th Grade. </p>

<p>160 Hours of Community Service</p>

<p>2 jobs in computer field during summers. </p>

<p>Essays : 1 Great, 1 very good.</p>

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<p>Cornell: Reach
Berkeley: High match (reach if not full-pay)
UIUC: High match (CompE is highly competitive)</p>

<p>Hope you have a safety…</p>

3

<p>What’s your intended major?</p>

<p>If you will be applying to Berkeley for engineering, I’m afraid your stats wouldn’t really cut it. Berkeley Eng’g accepts only around 10% of the applicants and the average SATs of eng’g students is about 2250 to 2300, and the GPA is above 3.91.</p>

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<p>I’m not looking for any financial aid, and most of these colleges don’t offer that to international students anyway.
So that shouldn’t be a problem. </p>

<p>True, I know engineering is a hard major to get accepted to but I’d really like to know why the SAT scores are so lionised ? I can prove my proficiency in English through my TOEFL and essays; and math through my subject test. Would they deny me based on SAT I ? I’m the only one applying from my highschool, but among some of my other friends, my stats are pretty strong.</p>

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<p>Berkeley and Cornell - Almost impossible
UIUC - High match.</p>

<p>Your SAT scores are weak. Your ECs are good for sports but hardly have anything in computers and science. Sorry but you are gonna have a hard time.
Look at Purdue.</p>