Chance Me For Ivies, MIT and Stanford [International, 1560 SAT, 10/10 GPA, CS, low income]

Chance Me / Match Me
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Chance me:
Demographics

  • Italian

Cost Constraints / Budget

  • Looking for a full ride (or anything under 20k).

Intended Major(s)

  • Computer Science

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 4.0 (Italy’s grading is out of 10 so its a 10/10)
  • Scores: 1560 SAT, 111 TOEFL.

List your HS coursework

  • My school does not offer any advanced coursework.

  • Took introductory university courses on CS:
    Harvard CS50: Introduction to Programming with Python

Harvard CS50: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in Python

MIT 6.006: Introduction to Algorithms

  • Attended a bootcamp on neural networks at a school in Turin, alongside participants from all over the country.

Awards

  1. Won the International Astro PI challenge, organized by the European Space Agency.

  • Ran code on the International Space Station.

  • Analyzed the effects of climate change through artificial intelligence.

  1. Won a bronze medal in my country’s national programming olympiad (top 25 out of 12,079).

  2. Participated in a team based programming olympiad:

  • Came 3rd regionally last year.

  • Came 12th and 16th nationally in different rounds.

  1. Came 1st nationally in a team-based robotics competition.
  • Had humanoid robots perform in a unesco world heritage theather.
  1. Came 3rd nationally in a CS group competition:
  • Developed a suite of tools and apps to help people with special needs.
  1. Came 7th in a European robotics competition:
  • Created and programmed robots that compted in various timed challenges.

Extracurriculars

  1. Founded a competitive programming club at my school.
  2. Co-founded an indie game studio and won a small game jam.
  3. Helped my parents with their mobile app startup.
  • Created a mobile app with over 10k downloads.
  • Updated and maintained apps with 1M+ downloads.
  1. Taught myself video editing
  • Created a documentary on the history of a local art piece.
  1. Tutored my classmates in Computer Science, English, and Math.
  2. Performed in a local theather for 5+ years.

Essays/LORs/Other

  • 7/10 essays
  • 7-8/10 LORs

Schools

  • MIT
  • Ivies
  • Stanford
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Unlikely to all. But you never know - so apply. And see.

If they accept your grades as a 4.0, the closest you’ll get to $20K (with automerit) is U of Alabama.

What you never know is how much aid you’ll get because the school determines the amount. So you could get in and hit budget. Or you could get in but be asked to pay more than you hope for.

Good luck.

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Have you run the net price calculators on the schools you are interested in?

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Sorry that was meant for the original person who posted!!

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I have just now, thanks for the advice!
IF i somehow get accepted I will have to pay at most 10~22k.

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