Chance an anxious international student

alwaysawriter
Fri, 18 Jan 2013 18:08:40 +0000

You should post this in the Chances thread since your post doesn’t relate specifically to UCLA.

The UC system does not accept letters of recommendation, for the record. And most private schools ask for two.

Your extracurriculars are solid; if you’ve been consistently active in them throughout HS, then that would be even better.

I don’t know anything about IB (sorry), but if everything else about your application is strong, then your lower-than-usual SAT scores shouldn’t make that big of a difference.

I would say you’ve got a decent chance for Berkeley, UCLA, and USC (which loves international students). I don’t know about the other schools (sorry) because I don’t know anything about them. U of Chicago is reputed to have the best economics program in the United States, just so you know.