Chance/Match: Eng/CS; South Asian-Female; 1450 SAT; scores: 94- 9th,94- 10th, 96-11th; a research paper in international journal and national scholarship for an exchange program abroad- major honors; mediocre ecs [international student, <$6k]

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Wellesley
Davidson
McKenna
Notre Dame
Middlebury
Haverford
Grinnel
Wesleyan
Georgetown
Vassar
Brandeis

This is a very top heavy list of colleges, and especially for an international student. No real sure things for admission and mostly very very reachy schools.

I linked this thread in the closed thread if yours, but I’m putting it here too. Please read the whole thing. This student was a stronger applicant than you are, a citizen here, very strong applicant…and he didn’t get accepted anywhere his senior year of high school. And admissions were less competitive when this kid applied in 2005. This is a MUST READ for folks like you who are applying to reach schools only.

No Acceptances: One Kid's Story - A year later...

Part I of III Sorry this is long but some posters have pm’d me about our story and I thought it would be of help to re-tell it. One year ago I posted a question here on CC – “We’re Picking up the Pieces …but what went wrong?” My son had applied to eight schools, been rejected at five and waitlisted at three. I expected to get a few responses and see the thread disappear deep into the archives of CC. Little did I imagine that one year later, not only would I still be posting about the progress, but an entire cyber family on College Confidential would still be going through it with me. For the benefit of those of you starting out on college applications, or – hopefully not-- for those of you who may find yourselves in our position, this is the story of one kid’s worst case scenario and how he made the best of it. I’m re-telling it here by way of my own original posts and those of other CC posters whose advice was so vital to the journey. Thanks to all of you! My original post o…