Chance me for Ivies, Vandy, NYU, LSU, Amherst

Chance Me / Match Me
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-International Student

-Demographics: White, Serbian, Orthodox, Upper middle class (Serbian standards), one parent

-High school:

-classes:

-4 years: Serbian, Mathematics, English, German, Physics, History, Music history, Art History, PE, Art and Design, Computer sciences, Civics

-3 years: Biology, Geography

-2 years: Lingustics and media, Latin, Advanced tech

-1 year: Psychology, Sociology, Constitution and civil rights, Logic, Philosophy

-Junior year at the arguably hardest HS in Serbia

-GPA translates to 3.74 (expect it to rise to at least a 3.8 with junior and senior year grades)

-pretty strong freshman year (3.68)

-there are no advanced/AP classes in Serbia

-expecting to be at the top 5-7% of my class when I finish school, and in top 1% of my group

-Test results:

-expected SAT score - 1510-1520

-expected TOEFL - 113-120

-ECs:

-Playing professional football (top 15-20 European team) since sophomore year (first team)

-flag football experience

-expecting to have championship medals in all possible categories by the time I apply (senior team, u-19s and u-17s)

-competing in the top European competitions

-taking up the assistant coach position for the female football team when the pandemic ends

-playing varsity handball in HS

-left the HS student body council after 3 years

-junior coordinator of the second biggest Serbian music festival (around 10k visitors from all around the world)

-junior coordinator at the biggest HS student seminar in the Balkans twice

-head of the greeting and cooperation committee for American students who came to Serbia for a WWII commemoration

-coordinator at the biggest Balkans HS theatre festival (10 days length)

-got to the latter stages of UN’s Upshift project

-been in an at least one student organization since I’ve enrolled in HS

-set a record for the best freshman finish at the national debating competition (17th and 18th out of 256)

-been in the protocol for the biggest Balkans WWII commemoration

-been in the school’s recital squad for 2 years

-organized a bunch of various tournaments and parties

-took a bunch of certified courses in digital marketing and computer security

-I, along with my friend own a medium-sized Serbia based online sports network we’re on the verge of selling

-plans:

-getting a soccer coaching licence

-forming a bigger network after selling the one mentioned earlier

-getting a soccer referee licence

-creating a dropshipping/dropservicing startup

-creating a party organization startup

-possibilities:

-getting into forex

-getting a basketball coaching licence

-joining the local red cross branch

-taking up a 6 month military training

-taking up BJJ/Kickboxing/Krav Maga

-criminal record:

-none

-finances and financial aid:

-99-100% financial aid where possible

-yearly income is around 7.5k USD

-all assets are technically owned by my grandparents

-regarding LoR and essays:

-I have a ton of teachers and teammates of different nationalities + I’m on great terms with the principal for the LoRs

-I have good tutors and ideas for my essays

-I want to enroll in an economic/sports field or law (economics, business administration, entrepreneurship, sports management…)

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Are you looking purely at an academic admission or have you investigated being recruited as an athlete for soccer?

(Also, you are aware that in the US law is studied at postgraduate level?)

3

I’m looking at an academic admission with (American) football as a bonus to get into college, while I thought of pre-law and then going onto graduate studies and achieve a full law diploma

4

“Playing professional football”

The thing that I do not know is whether this will have an impact on your eligibility to play university level “soccer” (our name for the game where you kick a ball with your foot) in the US. If you are eligible, then you might be able to get a full soccer scholarship in the US.

The Ivy League does not have sports scholarships. Other great universities such as Stanford do have sports scholarships. Stanford and many other top universities are specifically looking for strong athletes who are also academically excellent. I do not know whether Vanderbilt or LSU fits into this group but you might want to look into it.

Sometimes strong soccer players make it onto US football teams as the field goal kicker. To me this is sort of the dream job since you do not get run into as often as other players.

5

I meant football as in American football, but thanks for the advice nontheless, I’m looking to get a scholarship based on my financial need and academics/ECs

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Ah, ok. I misunderstood. There is obviously massive domestic recruiting for American football already, I thought soccer would have been (a bit of) an edge.

I’d suggest you look a bit more in depth at the various ivies as they do differ quite substantially. You have a good resume, but being an international who needs almost full aid is going to stack the decks against you almost everywhere, other than the handful of extremely competitive top schools that are need blind and meet full need for internationals. I’d encourage you to look a bit more widely, to schools where merit aid may be more forthcoming (top schools don’t give merit aid). Good luck.

How valued is an American JD in Europe? It is a hugely expensive degree for a different legal system. I am not sure tbh that the US makes a lot of sense for foreigners studying law unless you know for sure you will have the right to work in the US.

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I was planning to study law only on top colleges whose rep would score me a job in the USA, so I’m more focused towards economics and business, are you maybe aware of what schools would accept me on the basis of my financial status and resume?

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You need to dig down to a smaller set of ecs and a more pointy application. I have no idea what to make of the info you gave us. Could you play football in college or no, I know nothing about balkan pro football, I didn’t know it existed.