hello
SAT : 1520 (M :800) (RW:720)
SAT II : Math lvl II : 800 / physics : 780
Toefl : 113
GPA :4.00
Rank : Top 1% of my class
Course load : heaviest possible
School type : Pioneer high school
ECs: - LaunchX club founder and president (1yr)
I have my own online merch store (business)
Started my own local business (IT related service)
Youth club co-founder and chairman (2yrs)
religious studies (3yrs)
Karate (8yrs) = brown belt
Electronic dance music production (3yrs) = if you don’t know it: stuff like martin garrix and hardwell
spanish club coordinator (2yrs)
NASA Space apps challenge Tunisia 2015 finalist
Volunteered at a campaign to raise fund and collect supplies for the orphans village in Siliana
Filmmaking (7yrs) (several movies made in school, and one regional award)
learned coding on my own
Intended major : economics/ business administaration
I’ll apply EA to harvard or stanford or Uchicago or UPenn
Thank you for the help
You have excellent stats. But you’re talking about universities with single-digit acceptance rates for international students. So you do have A CHANCE. Just not a good chance. To increase your odds, you will have to apply to more schools, including ones ranked slightly lower. If you don’t apply to more schools the only good chance you have is of being rejected everywhere you apply…
@katliamom yes I will be applying for other schools in the regular decision
but Those are my top choices and I wanted to know what are my chances.
What do you think of my ECs do you think that they are enough?
Impossible to say with any specificity what your chances are or whether your stats and ECs are “enough,” because we don’t know your competition. Remember, you’re competing against other internationals students, not against Americans. Generally, these top schools restrict the number of international students (often it’s around only 15% or less of the overall student body) and it’s not unusual for them only take a few (or just one) students from different regions of the world.
You’re smart enough to figure out that mathematically, it appears your chances are low, and NOT because you’re a bad applicant. But because it’s just very, very tough to get into these schools. Especially if you need extensive financial aid. (I’m not 100% sure, but I think Penn and Chicago are need-aware for international students, meaning whether or not you need financial aid may affect your chances of acceptance.)
Harvard is need blind: if you need a lot of financial aid, apply there.
If your parents have 35k for each year of schooling or more, you can apply to a need aware university.
Note that Economics at Chicago is quite different from business at Penn Wharton. Read up on it.
For Penn, I’d apply to M&T since your Pioneer School background make you highly prepared for STEM and your EC’s show business accumen; they’ll also like the fact you studied some in depth subjects such as French and philosophy (Wharton doesn’t like applicants who are money obsessed and likes a balance with humanistic thinking and interests.)