I am currently a rising senior who has studied for 8 years in an English-based high school in the West Bank, Palestine. I am planning to study in the U.S or Canada, and if I don’t get a full scholarship (from the uni, from a third party organization, or a combination of both) I will unfortunately be limited to studying here in one of the country’s sub-par universities. I’m looking to study medicine but that is not entirely set in stone.
That being said, these are the schools I’m hoping to get into:
Princeton
Duke
Yale
John Hopkins
University of Chicago
Brown University
University of British Columbia
McGill University
University of Michigan
Northwestern University
I know I’m shooting for ridiculously high-tier colleges. Tell me which of these I have a shot to get into.
I will take the SAT I in October, so here are my other stats:
Numbers:
4.0 unweighted GPA
109 Toefl iBT score (would have been a 117 if I didn’t go to the bathroom in the middle of the test lol)
710 SAT II Chemistry
700 SAT II Biology
EC’s and Others:
Lots of hours of community service (mostly volunteering in an elderly institution and teaching English)
Hobby in video editing. My work can be seen in the videos I make on Youtube (I wonder if it will be appropriate to link it in the actual application)
Received lots of Honor and Achievement Certificates in my school (I wonder how these could be submitted to the colleges… most likely through teacher recommendations I reckon).
I know when it comes to my stats, the SAT II’s are not as high as they should be. What SAT I score should I achieve in order to compensate for the 710 and the 700?
aayyyyyyyyyyyy fellow palestinian!!! I live in nyc, and here’s what i know:
-Add NYU and Columbia to that list, you’d love being in nyc and they’re both incredible and diverse schools. In fact, the (very few) other palestinians/arabs i know go to columbia.
-UBC,U chicago Umich and Mcgill are all state schools so you probably won’t get scholarships. It will be especcially hard with the Canadian ones
-I would add Stanford, they’re known for excellent financial aid
-You should look at schools were you’d stand out because they’re more likely to give you scholarships. I know that you want to go to top schools (and that makes complete sense) however, they’re hard to get into and even harder to get scholarships. I’d suggest the smaller liberal arts colleges (they’re still hard to get into but you’ll add diversity), smaller state schools, and lesser known private schools.
-While you’re looking into canadian schools, look at University of Toronto.
Also, with you’re filmmaking hobby you should consider submitting them to small film festivals. If you get in that will really help on you’re applications, however a video editing hobby won’t help as much.
Ya medicine is not an undergraduate major. Also, no one can tell you your chances at these schools without an SAT score, let alone to schools that are reaches for pretty much everyone.