What are my chances at an Ivy as a US citizen living Abroad/ suggest colleges

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I’m a junior rn living in India, US Citizen(so i’ll be a domestic applicant to most colleges).

Expected Major: Systems Engineering/ Aerospace & Math integrated

School Grades:
Grade 9: 90.6%
Grade 10: 97.4%
Grade 11: 93% (up till now)
Grade 12: 97% (expected)

Am in the top 10% in my school.

SAT expected: 1470 - 1530 (am giving it in december)
SAT Subject tests yet to give (will take Math 1 and Physics probably)

AP’s (not offered at my high school): Physics 1, Calculus AB

Financial Aid needed (at least 40-50%)

EC’s:

  1. Led an innovation project that won various interschool/ high school-college lvl competitions & science fairs, went to national level fairs(CBSE science fair etc.), we also appealed to have an high school associated college fund a patent application for the project - failed (in grade 10).
  1. Grade 11 project (IoT based)(also team leader - 2 ppl in the grp only tho) has also gone to various interschool/ high school-college lvl competitions & science fairs, went to national level fairs(CBSE science fair etc.), IIT Bombay techfest and we'll try for the patent application after further development.
  2. President of school R&D club (The ATL Society), hosted an interschool event, one of the biggest in the region, the club also promotes innovation especially for girls.
  3. Currently a student mentor for a junior school innovation project as well, which has also gone to and won various interschool/national lvl competitions.
  4. Did a 1 month mentor-mentee program with a startup company to gain industry experience, do a hands on project as well.
  5. Participating in Space Settlement Design Competition, came top 5 at the Indian level, (hopefully) qualify to the Asian levels.
  6. Department head of the Newly Founded Space Society in the school (I was not a founding member).
  7. Did a summer school program in Space Science and Technology at Amity University in Grade 9(it was paid and i did it for the learning experience but idk if i'll include this)
  8. Qualified PRMO (one of the many precursors for the International Maths Olympiad), went to give the RMO in grade 10 (exam got cancelled this year), have participated in and won various interschool mathematics and mental math competitions since grade 5.
  9. Was the Executive Director of a local TedX event.
  10. Have been the goalkeeper in the school girls Soccer team for 5 years now (also set to be team captain next year), won 3rd position at the Zonal level (it was a qualifications for the nationals).
  11. Volunteer activity: Have been Organising, administrating and acting as a runner for meal deliveries, a small initiative started by me (with mom) to ask people to help provide meals to COVID infected families in our neighbourhood of approx 3000 ppl. We have catered to more than 15 families uptill now with the help of more than 80-90 cooks/chefs in the neighbourhood.
  12. Student Council - Vice Head girl (and hopefully Head Girl nxt year)
  13. Qualified Grade 2 Guitar by trinity college of london with distinction.

Awards
1. Changemaker of the year award for innovation (2019-2020).

2. Various other small awards given by the school etc. (idts they count as much)

Colleges I’m thinking of applying to:
1. MIT (early action) (haha, I gotta apply at least)
2. CalTech (Early Action)
3. UPenn (Early Decision) or Dartmouth Early Decision
4. Carnegie Mellon (Regular Action)
5. Georgia Tech (Early Action)

6. University of Illinois at UC (Early Action)
7. Princeton (Early Action)
8. UT Austin (Priority deadline)
9. University of Michigan Ann Arbor (Early Action)
10. Northwestern (Regular)
11. Boston Uni (Regular)
12. Penn State (Early Action) (i'm not entirely sure if I'll apply here)

Is there any chance that I’ll make it to any one of these colleges? Should I expand my list more?

Thank you so much in advance

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Princeton’s EA is single choice. So you cannot apply at the same time as ED to another college. Apart from that, the plan above looks reasonable. You should consider adding an ED2 choice. But given your need for financial aid, it will be tough.

Also note that the state schools will probably not give you any financial aid. Even though you are a US citizen, you are not an instate resident. So would consider removing Illinois, UT Austin, GA Tech and Michigan. Run the net price calculators on each website to see if your parents can afford it.

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There is no EA at Princeton for this cycle, only one due date for all.

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OP is currently a junior and not applying this cycle. Which also makes any chancing difficult as final grades for 11th and projection for 12th as well as SAT scores are unknown.

OP, regarding your first sentence: you will be a domestic applicant for all (not most) colleges, but you will be in-state for none of the publics. Most of the publics on your list are tough for out of state applicants. You need matches and safeties. So far I only see Penn State and maybe BU as possible matches (BU’s admit rate in the teens tends to tip it into more of a reach).

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“Financial Aid needed (at least 40-50%)”

How much can you afford to pay? Have you run the NPCs on the schools on your list?