<p>Schools that I am applying to: MIT, Stanford, Berkeley, UIllinois at UC, UT Austin. You don't have to answer all, just the one(s) you are familiar with. My intended major is chemical engineering.</p>
<p>nationality: Canadian
residences: China, USA, Canada
current residence and place of application: Shanghai, China
current educational system: American</p>
<p>unweighted GPA: 4.09 (out of 4.33, approximately 95% of all subjects, unweighted GPA ranked 1st in the entire grade)</p>
<p>SAT Reasoning Test:
single best: 2070
combine best (across different tests): 2130</p>
<p>SAT Subject Tests:
Math 2 and Chinese: 800
Chemistry and Physics: 750
USHistory and World History: 700</p>
<p>APs:
Chemistry, Computer Science A, Calculus BC, Physics B, Chinese- All 5</p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
- Ping pong and badminton varsity player and part of the champion group for both
- Intel International Science and Engineering Fair 2nd place and Superior Award
- treasurer of 2 clubs, president of 1 club, founder of 1 club
- numerous community service/volunteer programs
- editor-in-chief and translator of the college admission websites of a college
- Canadian Mathematics Competition and Google Science Fair - participant but no award
- internship at a software company for 2 weeks
- two websites: one on study notes, one on environment and chemistry
- Teacher assistant and tutor</p>
<p>Recommenders:
Math teacher for 2 years, PhD and department head
English teacher for 1 year, PhD, former department head, and current school principal</p>
<p>Your awards are impressive, but your SAT score is a little low for some of those schools.I’m not sure about the other schools,but I know you would be a shoe in at UT Austin; both my brothers went there :)</p>
<p>I know MIT looks for those nerdy/genius math/science kids. I consider myself one of them. I won the 2nd place of the Intel ISEF with an innovative invention. I am also participating it next year with a topic on biodegradable plastics. I am also an ESL; my first language is Chinese and I’ve lived in China for almost my entire life (15 years), which is why I don’t have an awesome SAT score. International students in China don’t get as many opportunities as the students in North America do. From reading other threads I realized they have much more science and math competitions and stuff. </p>
<p>So I am wondering if my life experience/setting would kind of make up for the low SAT score (for admission to MIT and Stanford, this is definitely low 25%)? How much stress do they put on SAT scores? Would a 2100 differ greatly from a 2200, or 2300?</p>
<p>I would say you have a fighting chance at all of them… however, you are also international. A 2100 does differ greatly from a 2200 or 2300.
MIT - high reach 20%
UIUC-high match 50-60% (because you’re international)
Cal - low reach 40-50%
Stanford - high reach 10-15%
Dunno about Austin. Your awards and ECs are great, but international + SAT is working against you.</p>
<p>Chance me?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1168046-thread-has-interesting-title-ill-chance-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1168046-thread-has-interesting-title-ill-chance-back.html</a></p>
<p>I thought Stanford admits a lot of international students and look for students with various interesting backgrounds. There are students with 1700 SAT who got into Stanford and MIT each year. I mean, 1/4 of the students have the same or lower SAT score as I do (their bottom 25%). Also, aren’t international students more willing and likely to pay for full tuition, because their chance of getting scholarships is also slimmer. What are my chances of getting into the two Canadian universities listed?</p>