What are my chances for Ivies and other schools?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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So, I’m a high school from Ethiopia (east Africa) and i would appreciate it if you guys would chance me for the following schools:
Ivies
MIT
Stanford
morehouse
Lafayette
Tulane
Connecticut College
Colby
Claremont McKenna
Peperdine
Harvey Mudd
Colgate
NYU (all three campuses)

(please recommend places you think i might get in)

These are my statistics:
SAT: 1370 (essay 17/24) {writing 7/8]
Math II : 700+ (taking them tomorrow)
Physics: 700+ (taking them tomorrow)
GPA: 3.8 (no weighted GPA or advanced classes at my school)
WIll be taking TOEFL in Dec

ECs:

  • Economics, Law and Finance Club (Founder, President)
  • Law Review (founder, Editor-in-chief)
  • Business Review (founder, editor-in-chief)
  • Physics and Astronomy Club (member for 5 years, President for one year, head of general operations for the current year)
  • MUN (Co-Founder and Chair of ECOSOC) Participated in a City wide conference 3 times, won honorable mention at a Model AU
  • Taught myself how to code (summer)
  • Medical Intern (one summer) (observed during surgeries)
  • Worked for an AIDS charity(one summer)
  • Ethiopian Space Science Society (very active member, Letter of Rec from Outreach Director)
  • Economic/Scientific/Political Blog
  • Volunteered as a peer tutor
  • Poet

Essays/Recommendations:

I have written all my essays and i have gotten second opinions from 10 or so people and every one loves them. I personally think they are the best Pieces i have ever written. All my recommenders love me so my Recs will be off the charts.

Hooks:
International (may also be a disadvantage), Learning Disability in Africa.

Extreme down sides:
Can’t take the SAT again
need full financial aid

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bump… bump… superbump… almost a month now…

3

As an international student who also applied Financial aid and relatively low statistics among all Ivies applicants, your chance is kinda low. Your extracurriculars are good and you need to represent them on your ECs to improve your chance but Ivies still reach school for ya.

4

You’re a big reach because your SAT is kinda low for top schools, and you also need full financial aid which, for most schools they are need-aware to international students.

5

Updates: apparently my GPA is 3.9 instead of 3.8 and I have since become the most decorated MUN delegate in my school’s history. I am applying as a Astrophysics/Political science double major.

6

Ivies/Stanford/MIT are reaches for almost everyone in the US and are even harder for international students to get into. Those will be high reaches for you.

I think probably CMC, Harvey Mudd, Colby and Colgate are probably reaches.

Tulane, NYU and Lafayette are probably low reaches.

Pepperdine and Conn College are maybe high matches.

Morehouse may be a match or a low match.

You should do some research on which US schools give the best financial aid to international students, if you haven’t already.

7

Sorry your SAT is too low. You are way below the 25th percentile for all of those schools (for Ivies). Other schools could be hard too, depending on how many internationals they take and where they usually come from.

8

Can you guys recommend colleges i should apply to? (put into consideration that i need financial aid)

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Anyone? I need to get this done soon so if you could suggest schools i’d really appreciate it