Chance/Match Me for Business at T20: International, SAT 1550, GPA 4.0 UW

I think that you have a reasonable chance of getting a small number of admissions from this list. It is very difficult to predict where. Your chances might be better if you are able to clearly articulate why each university that you are applying to is a good fit for you.

For your ED application to Cornell you are more likely to be rejected than accepted, but you do have a chance of being accepted. You are a competitive and well qualified applicant. Be aware that ED is likely to give you a boost, but my understanding is that the ED acceptance rates include recruited athletes, which of course skews the statistics. Cornell for example typically has a pretty good hockey team and I would be pretty sure that some of their players are very good recruited athletes from Canada.

I hope that you are also applying to universities in Canada. Given your stats it seems likely that pretty nearly every university in Canada would be a safety (ignoring obvious issues such as if you only speak English applying to a French language university, or applying to universities outside of Quebec with only grade 11 completed in Quebec and no CEGEP).

I was a Canadian student who graduated many years ago from universities in the USA (bachelor’s degree from MIT, master’s degree from Stanford). One thing that you need to keep in mind: Once you graduate from university in the US, assuming that you do not already have US citizenship or permanent residence, you will most likely be required to return to Canada. However, Canadian employers seem to prefer to hire graduates from the many excellent universities in Canada. Getting a job can therefore be tough, even with degrees from universities on the MIT, Stanford level. The exception would be if you already have either US citizenship or permanent residence and intend to stay in the USA.

For the UCs are you applying to all of them? If so then being full pay with superb stats you seem to have a decent chance to get an acceptance to Merced or Riverside (even with them ignoring your excellent SAT scores). While these are very good universities, I do not understand why you would pay over US$80,000 per year to attend either of them when you could pay less in total over four years at McGill or Toronto or Queen’s or UBC or somewhere else in Canada.

Do not underestimate the quality of the excellent universities that you have in Canada. I know multiple people who got a bachelor’s degree in Canada and then went to some form of graduate program at very good universities in the USA. This includes someone who got a master’s and PhD at Princeton, two people who got master’s degrees at Stanford, and a daughter who is currently studying for a PhD in a very good program in the USA, all after getting a bachelor’s degree in Canada.

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