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<p>Hi, I am a student from Czech republic and I would like to know what are my chances to get into an ivy league school. </p>

<p>I am applying next year to: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Standford, Cornell, Darmouth, Brown... I would like to do polical sciences in the undergrad. I graduate next year</p>

<p>My gpa is 3.9 (i know thats bad, but Im still in the top 5% and grading in the czech republic is lot tougher). My school is one of the most selective highschools in oir country
ACT- i should get over 32 and sat subject test both close to 800 (but it is lower because english is not my first languege- do they consider that right?)
we do not have any AP classes. so I couldnt take any</p>

<p>I am hoping that my extracurriculars are gonna get me in- what do you think?
I do study a lot of languages- besides speaking czech I speak english, german, spanish, I study franch, russian and I took classes of latin and chinese
I founded and lead schools club for political simulations, with which we participated at Yale model government europe, Prague student summit and National selection conference, with which we were chosen to represent czech republic at the international european yout parliament
I founded and lead one of the biggest debating club in the czech republic
i debate in the team that the czech representation is chosen from
I play in a theatre
Im in Czech-german youth forum- i am working on a projekt to make Germany and Czech republic closeer to each other.
I spent a year in the US
I perfom in the theatre
I am the president od school parliament
I am the editor in chief in the schools newspaper</p>

<p>What do you think? If I apply to all of these schools, do I have a chance that I will be accepted at least at one of them?</p>

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<p>No one knows what your chances are, partially because you have no test scores. However, a bit of advice. You should not be pinning your hopes on an upper tier school, as students with perfect grades and test scores are routinely rejected. The difficulty is only increased for international students, as international students accepted to America’s best schools are often among the top students in their respective countries. Your list of schools needs to be adjusted to include match schools and safety schools. You need to adjust your college application strategy to one that includes a range of schools and not just the most admissions difficult schools in the United States. That single-minded, one-dimensional strategy could lead to serious disappointment. In short, as an international student you will have a harder time with admissions to top American schools, made less difficult if you are an absolutely top student relative to other international applicants. Plan on applying to a much BROADER range of schools.</p>