What are my chances as an international student?

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<p>Hello everyone, I'm supposed to enroll for an undergraduate degree in fall 2013, but since I live overseas I have very slight knowledge about the admission process, therefore I ask you, dear college confidential users, to guide me in this particular area.</p>

<p>I want to start off by saying that I have lived my entire life in Turkey even though I am not 100% Turkish. </p>

<p>I am taking the Nov. 3 and Dec. 1 SATs; I should get something like a 700(add-substract 20-30) in CR, 780-800 in Maths and something around 700 in writing(nothing below 700)</p>

<p>I am supposed to take the ACT+writing test on Dec 8, which I should be able to get an easy 33-34 composite score from.</p>

<p>And I am supposed to take the TOEFL exam on Dec 7, based on practice tests I can max this out pretty easily.(THIS EXAM IS VERY,VERY easy compared to the SAT, and I should be able to get a 115 MINIMUM out of 120)</p>

<p>I realize that most US schools accept students based heavily on the SAT scores, BUT there are completely different other points; GPA, extra curricular activities and recommendations.</p>

<p>I won't have a GPA in US terms, and I don't even think that I will be able to submit a GPA as part of my applications.</p>

<p>And in terms of extra curricular activites, there is almost NO extra curricular activity you can perform in Turkey if you are not part of an IB program, aside from sports like basketball, and even if I was to perform charitable pastime activities they would not be recorded in any way.</p>

<p>I have a counselor who has a PhD. degree from University of Florida, who should make up for a good enough recommendation, and I am also going to get some more recommendations from my English teachers and will register the best ones.(I can't even ask for recommendations from my maths and regular course teachers as they can't even have a basic everyday conversation in English)</p>

<p>I want to know, what will make up for my GPA in the schools' perspective? What makes schools selective in terms of international students? The essay I will send them as part of my application? My TOEFL scores? What do they care about international students and what are they looking for in an international student's repertoire?</p>

<p>And here is a list of the schools I plan to apply to;</p>

<p>Princeton
Stanford
Harvard
Yale
NYU(in case I am denied admission from the other schools I have listed)</p>

<p>Thanks for your time and I appreciate any effort you give in helping me!</p>

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<p>HYPS are all “reaches-for-anyone”</p>

<p>If you scored 2100+ on the SAT your academic average should come out to 3.7+ on US GPA terms to be competitive for NYU.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the response, bump!</p>

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<p>Really looking forward for a reply, bump!</p>

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<p>I’m also an international student applying to america and was surprised at how important extra curricular work was, in Europe your admission is based solely on exam results and gpa, so perhaps if you could find a way to showcase your other activities (showing initiative in terms of work outside of school and charity work etc) would help make you stand out independently of your scores and gpa, particularly for the very competitive schools your applying for.</p>