WILL CHANCE BACK! Please help chance for an international student for (basically) Ivy Leagues

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I plan to study somewhere in the business/investing/management etc field

Please chance me for:
Harvard
Stanford
Pennsylvania
Berkley
MIT
Brown
Yale
Columbia
Duke

Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (Writing 750 | Critical Reading 750 | Math 800)
SAT II (place score in parentheses): Math Level II (800), Chemistry (780)
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5 of about 225

Major Awards:
*Bronze Duke of Ed
*Academic Merit for HSC course
*2 x National Champion for Kungfu/Wushu in the Australasian region
*Nationals Innovations Trophy for F1 in Schools
*Regional Champions and State Runner ups for F1 in Schools + all other possible awards (i.e. innovations, best portfolio, best car, fastest car etc etc)
*Winning team of Initiate 27 (Startup program for high school entrepreneurship)

Extracurriculars:

Sports:
*International Athlete for Australia competing in the 3rd World Junior Wushu/Kungfu Championships (Not sure if this count as it was in my junior year (year 7-8) but is quite significant)
*National Athlete and champion for Australasian region
*Junior varsity tennis
*Varsity and junior varsity volleyball
*Soccer + Rifle Shooting

Technology:
*Regional Champion, State Runner Up and National 4th place team for F1 in Schools (A globally renowned program)

Entrepreneurship:
*Founder of DSLRWeek.com an online database, blog and resource for photographers around the world
*Co-founder of notestarter.com.au an online database and high school note sharing website for students studying the HSC course in NSW, Australia currently made aware to 4000 students
*Head of Tech at Generation Entrepreneur a student run program across multiple schools around my state. Featured in multiple nation wide news articles. Expecting magazine feature articles such as BRW in the future. Been awarded ‘Best Social Venture’ by Social Ventures Australia.

Leadership:
*Full College/School Prefect
*Captain of 2 tennis teams
*Founder/Leader of Economics Club
*Head team and one of the lead mentors for F1 in Schools at school (inc. one mentored team participated in the World F1 in Schools finals)
*Temporary captain of junior varsity volleyball team

Volunteer/Community Service:
*Loaves and Fishers (ministry to the homeless)
*Red Shield Appeal (Salvations Army)
*Group leader for charity awareness to the junior years
*Helping the elderly in my area
*School tours
*Laser engraving for electronic devices (over 1200 students)

Other:
*Piano
*Australian Army Cadets Unit 2 years (High School)(Awarded best platoon)
*House colours recipient

*Film Club
-Film Festival participant
-Official documentaries and films for the sesquicentenary of school
-Photography contributions to school magazine including a front cover photo
-Multiple other services to the school community through film and photographic mediums

Country (if international applicant): Australia
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: Upper-middle class
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): What’s this??

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Oh and also, I am applying for financial aid. I have been considering EA but still a little stuck on which uni as I’m planning to study business.

Thanks in advance!

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Also please chance for UCLA and Cornell as well!

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You’ll likely get into Berkley.
For the others, you’re qualified and >90% of qualified applicants are rejected.

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Good scores, and pretty good GPA. You have pretty decent chances at the lower Ivy Leagues like Cornell, Columbia, and Penn. Of course Harvard, Stanford, and MIT are reaches for everybody regardless of grades and scores.

This is only if you clarify some of your Extracurriculars. First, you wrote “International Athlete for Australia competing in the 3rd World Junior Wushu/Kungfu Championships (Not sure if this count as it was in my junior year (year 7-8) but is quite significant)” This does count, however do you have to qualify for the world junior championships or can anyone attend and call themselves an “International Athlete.”
Additionally, you wrote “2 x National Champion for Kungfu/Wushu in the Australasian region” under your major awards section, then you wrote “National Athlete and champion for Australasian region” under your “sports section.” This just looks quite awkward. If what you wrote is genuinely true, then I would say that you have some hope for Harvard, MIT, and Stanford because those EC’s are amazing. I would be extremely surprised if you didn’t get into at least 3 of those schools on your list.

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However, you will not get the FA you need.

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To qualify, you need to compete in previous competitions. And because I was champion at nationals, I was selected to be in the Aus team for worlds. And yes apologies for repeating the nationals EC.

Thank you for chancing :slight_smile:

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If you were in the US, you would probably be accepted to at least 3 of the universities mentioned. But the fact you are from Australia would make it much more difficult. The good thing is that you have a national award! but unfortunately its not really in your subject area.

I do think you have a better chance at Harvard than Stanford or MIT from what I heard about them. (they take national champions at everything?)

Disclaimer: I have no idea how business schools work, so the above info is not completely trustworthy

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Thank you for your assessment.

About being an international student, isn’t this an advantage?

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Pretty much all of those schools are crapshoots. You are an extremely qualified applicant, and should not have trouble with UCLA, but for the rest, they’re a reach for anyone.

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The OP needs Financial aid which means the UC’s are out.

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Could I please be also assessed by a “Match, High Match etc” for my universities?

Thanks

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Harvard- reach
Stanford- reach
Pennsylvania - low reach
Berkley- high match
MIT - reach
Brown - low reach/ high match
Yale - reach
Columbia- low reach
Duke- low reach
UCLA- match/low match
Cornell- high match

Being an international student is a huge disadvantage. Lower acceptance rates, nonexistent aid, etc. However, if you do get into elite schools (H/S), they might give you substantial amounts of aid.
You’re in the ballpark of these schools; thing is they have lots of applicants similar to you. It just comes down to luck, you’ve done essentially all you can.

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In Australia the day is longer than 24 hours, isn’t it? I mean I barely have the time to breath and you play tennis volleyball soccer kung fu. You volunteer, you have great academic records, you have national merits. The question is : you have the time to sleep, don’t you? You don’t use drugs do you?

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@noname876‌

^That’s officially the weirdest reply to a thread I’ve ever seen on this forum.

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Wow…very qualified, but international applying for aid is so hard. I wouldn’t be surprised if you got into at least a few.

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@noname876‌ Nah the day is 24 hours :stuck_out_tongue: but we just hop onto the kangaroos. They’re faster than cars!

Haha but all jokes aside, I’m able to fit all that in because I did it was spread across 5-6 years. Not just 1 or 2.

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It would be nice if more people could give a “high match, reach” type of review

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You’re definitely a qualified student. You’re highest chances are probably UCLA and Berkley. Because you’re an international applicant, you’re chances do decrease, however. The other schools are more of reaches.

Based on statistics,

Harvard: Reach
Stanford: Reach
Pennsylvania: Low Reach/High Match
Berkley: Match
MIT: Reach
Brown: Reach
Yale: Low-ish Reach
Columbia: Low Reach
Duke: Low Reach
UCLA: Match
Cornell: Low Match

Good luck though! I’m definitely rooting for you…you have a lot to offer!

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@velvetElixir, the OP needs financial aid so the UC’s are out. There is no financial aid for OOS or international students.