@whartonboy14 My goal is not to put you down, but rather to point out the most likely and logical scenario (for other international students as well). My apologies if it offended you.
As for me not knowing a thing about international admissions…I have multiple close friends who applied as internationals, two last year, one this year, as well as a cousin who came to study in the States. I’d like to think I know at least a few things about international admissions.
Either way, I won’t be responding to you further: good luck on your college search, and I wish you the best in the future.
@karen88, all we get is your name, contact, high school and if you expressed an intended major(s), your potential major(s). The AO purposely does not give us more information than this because they want the interview to be all about a spontaneous interaction without any prejudgment on our part as to the competiveness of the applicant. I don’t ask for a resume, but some alums might. Some interviewees will give me their resume, and I will look at it to guide the discussion. Some resume are helpful when they guide the discussion to something the interviewee wants to and is prepared to highlight. Some have been distracting when they list a dozen awards and 15 EC’s – where do we begin the discussion? What if I (or any interviewer) choose one of your lesser EC’s (the list builder) and you stumble through the discussion proving how superficial the EC really was?
I am applying to Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and Columbia. Columbia is currently my number one choice.
I am unsure about my chances at Stanford but my college counselor said that it isn’t too much of a reach.
and haha, if you ask me, the month before decisions come out is probably one of the worst times to get a cc account as it will probably just add to the stress. At this point I’m just trying not to think about any of this until Dec 14.
@whatsindestiny Environmental Studies here. Does major choice really affect admissions chances? Besides showing interest in the field you want to study, does it somehow affect your chances? (i.e. limited number of economics majors, but a large number of applicants put economics as their intended major)
Let’s look at the math…
If 17.1% of SCEA applicants from Yale were admitted last year from a total SCEA pool of 5,086 applicants, that means that give or take 870 SCEA applicants were offered a place in Yale’s Class of 2021. Since this figure does represent the university’s increase in class size to accommodate the two new residential colleges, I can “guesstimate” purely based on numbers (not on qualifications, etc.) that the SCEA acceptance rate this year= 870/5733 x100= 15.17% (a decrease of 1.93% from last year’s pool).
