What are my chances of getting into any Ivy League e.g Yale, Duke, Princeton and some normal schools

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I’m Nigerian and applying to some international colleges in the US
Here’s a bit of my profile

Father’s a Lawyer, Mother’s a Nurse
Ranked 1/140 in my high school
Was the Head Boy in both Junior and Senior Secondary school(Final Years)
Graduated as Valedictorian

ECs
ART
Vision of the Child Painting/Literary Program
I paint, write, and sometimes act, and I am a member of the VOTC program. Through this, I have won several competitions for my excellence in the Arts.

CULTURAL
Head of the school’s Igbo Cultural Community
I was the head of the Igbo Cultural community in high school and let our tribe to success by winning 1st position in our Inter Cultural Competition

DEBATE/SPEECH
President of the Press Club
I was the President of the Press/Debate club and I participated in several debate competitions, including News casting every Friday at my school.

THEATER/DRAMA
School Actor/Script Writer
I acted in school plays and even directed and scripted a few by myself

COMMUNITY SERVICE
Volunteer for UNICEF Campaign
I volunteered for the UNICEF campaign against child rights violation and would be going state by state to explain my painting.

ACADEMIC
School’s Quiz Representative
I was part of the school’s Inter-School Quiz competition representative severally, and turned out victorious on numerous occasions.

DANCE
Member of my School’s Dance Class
I was an active dancer in the school’s dance team “PARA Angels” with PARA meaning Passion Against Rape in Africa

STUDENT GOVT/POLITICS
Head of the Student’s Representative Council
Being the Head Boy, I led the SRC and looked into matters affecting the students.

Personal essay was about being Nigerian but facing the harsh realities of Africans not being Open to LGBT people.

*Didn’t take the SAT/ACT but Yale accepted my WASSCE where i got 7As out of 9 subjects
and my high school doesnt use GPA but i got A parallels from the 10th-12th grades and got 14As and 2Bs out of 16 subjects in the 9th grade.

I’m kinda worried…what are my chances???

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Your chances are very low… everyone’s chances are low at schools such as Yale, Princeton, Duke, etc - especially international students (who make up very small percentages of the overall student body.) Will you need financial aid? If not, I’m sure of the “normal” - and lower-ranked - schools may welcome an accomplished Nigerian student who is full pay.

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On their international applicant page, https://admissions.yale.edu/applying-yale-international-student Yale states:

“Only students whose home country of schooling (for example, mainland China) do not have an SAT or ACT testing center are exempt from these testing requirements, but must take either the TOEFL, IELTS, or PTE instead. No other substitutions are acceptable. SAT Subject Tests are not required for admission but are recommended.”

Nigeria has testing centers.

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I think the lack of SAT/ACT will hurt, impressive as the resume looks otherwise. Nigerians are not as under-represented at US colleges as one might think; it’s a diversity advantage but not nearly as much as many other African countries.

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Hi!
Did you get in? Which schools accepted you?

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OP has not been back to CC since Feb
Closing old thread.