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Old 05-10-2008, 08:25 AM   #1
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Chances for ivy league, international from Australia

gday
so im from Perth, Western Australia. After visiting some ivy's while on holiday in US recently ive had my eye set on them (particularly princeton, cornell, uni of penn), also MIT would be nice.
do you rekon i have a chance?

so heres me in a list:

In yr 12 (senior year), born and raised in Australia but im of Indian heritage.
On full scholarship to #1 school in Perth (about #8 in Australia) (the school happens to be an elite private school which looks nice on apps i spose?)
We dont have GPAs but i rekon the equivalent would be 4.0.
In the standardised state-wide finals exam im hoping to get in top 0.15% of the state

SAT1: (i just did it and dont know my results yet but i think itll be 2100ish. i know its not superb..) a geusstimation would be:
math: 800
CR: 700
Writing: 700

SAT2: (havent dont it yet but im confident ill get 800 in Math2, Physics and high 700's for Chem)

EC's:
5 years of debating (finalist in 1 year)
Public Speaking
Mock Trial
Model United Nations Conference
Selected for Australian National Math Summer School (only select 60 from the country)
5 years of Volleyball (top team for 4 years)
3 years of Soccer
2 years in maths club
2 years learning the drums (in a band kinda)
7 years learning indian vocal music (but quit a year ago)
hobby photographer
Have a steady part time job for a bit over a year

oh and my brother is currently at princeton grad school on full scholarship (i dunno if that makes even the slightest difference. could you tell me?)

We arent super-rich so ill prolly need fin-aid but im quite sure princeton offers it (not sure about the rest. I know MIT is stingy)

cheers,
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