<p>Fact is though, that many Israeli students that didn’t have any major accomplishment in their lives, simply managed to prove themselves as talented people and get into ivy’s every year with SAT scores lower than the school’s avg, average SAT score in Israel is a lot higher than the avg in America, however because we are non-native speakers not many get past the 2200 mark. My GPA is about 3.7 and we have nation-wide tests so it doesn’t really differ from one school to the other :</p>
<p>My long term plan is already similar to the one you just noted; only that I’m not giving up the attempt to get to a high class school.</p>
<p>The local universities in Israel are ranked higher than most U.S state programs and cost like 1/10th of the price.
For example, I can do a double major of law and business management, and in the last semester have students exchange with Wharton.
It’s not a Wharton degree, but it does give you some of the experience and connections.</p>
<p>As for competition, I don’t compete against Americans, in Israel I don’t have all of these opportunities, our lives just get cut off when we are 18 and we go to the army, therefore we can’t open any company or try to manage anything.
Our schools don’t have clubs or very rigorous programs and most students don’t pay that much attention to their studies in high school because we don’t have a holistic approach for students enrollment and we are busy thinking about the army.
Your scores are either high enough for a certain university or they aren’t, so many people just work their *ss off on the Israeli equivalent to the SAT and just get into any local university they want, some of these universities are ranked in the world top 100.</p>
<p>About the list you noted, I’m closely familiar with it. However, I really don’t get these rankings, schools with lower internships, salaries and job placement get higher ranks than schools with better stats, the ranking is simply established on students and employers willingness to answer the survey.
For example, how is Wharton placed 4th with 95% job placement and a median salary of 70,000$, while Mendoza is placed 1st with 93% job placement and a median salary of 55,000$. Or Sloan ranked 9th with 98% job placement and the same salary as Wharton.</p>
<p>At the end of the day, yes, I’m very much aware that my chances are close to 0, but like 96% of the applicants have chances close to 0, yet like 7% of them do get into college. So as much as you guys are discouraging, I’m not going to give up the attempt. I have nothing to lose, worse case my English will get better and I’ll just use the SAT over here.
Always remember, you miss all the shots you don’t take and never say never </p>
<p>Oh, and I still didn’t get an answer, which job will boost in some way my application? (if not to Wharton then to other schools in the top 25~)</p>
<p>Thanks again for all the answers guys </p>
<p>P.s if you don’t mind me asking, what are you currently doing in life?</p>