Advice for an international student

undecidedac96
Sun, 29 Mar 2015 06:46:08 +0000

Your extracurricular activities are definitely competitive for all those schools. Sports aren’t necessary. Perfect grades in an IB curriculum are a huge plus.
But we can’t really predict your chance of getting into most of those schools until we know scores. They are super important. They could make or break your chances.
With such a good profile, I assume you’re going to get great scores. Assuming you get a 2100+ you have a very good chance of getting into NYU and Northeastern. The problem is the aid. Northeastern gives no need-based aid and NYU gives terrible aid, and NYU is likely to reject you since you need plenty. (They are need aware for intl’s) I know a valedictorian with 2,200 SAT scores who got only 15000$/year from Northeastern. And a similar student at NYU pays full price, but they didn’t apply for aid.
Most likely, you will get into Georgetown since they are need-blind. But they are not full-need, so that could be a problem. Hopefully they will give you a good finaid package.
Amherst is also a possibility since it is a little less competitive than HYPSM because it isn’t as famous. And they are need-based and full-need. But obviously it depends on your scores. A 2,200 would make you competitive.