Chance Me - Indian Boy (International)

aarybalkar
Sun, 23 Feb 2020 09:24:08 +0000

There is no rhyme or reason to your list. Each school is very different in style, geography, personality, and size. It looks as though it doesn’t matter to you what the university is, as long as it’s a US university. The universities will detect this through your generic responses. They expect you to have a specific answer for why you chose to apply to their university.

None of my responses are generic. I have created specific essays for every single university on that list (except if it was about my extra curriculars, culture, etc.) and have put in days, if not weeks, on my essays to make each one unique! Also, something unique about each school appealed to me, and I really don’t care about the geography, size, etc. as much as the education!

-You are undeclared. It matters that you have different majors for different universities. You are trying to fit what you think the university wants, which means you are not the right fit. As an international student, with immigration officials, they will ask about your studies.

I am not undeclared. One of the major things that drew me to US Universities is the luxury of exploring options before declaring my major, unlike UK or Indian Universities, where you have to declare it before admission! I am a teenager and I do not want to commit my life to a field just because I thought I would like it as a 16-year-old!

You don’t appear to have any hooks for these schools.
Hooks mean recruited athletes, URM, celebrity status (like an Olympian or a Malala/Greta), international status, etc. It’s something that the university needs. Assume that you have to be the best student in your country for maybe 1-2 seats per university. As an ORM-(over represented minority), the universities save their funding.

I am not sure if this counts as a hook. But I have around 2k subscribers on my Wordpress blog, and have gained high positions in International Olympiads. Also, I am a district-level basketball player, but I did not write it in my Common App Activities section as that is not something I intend to pursue at my college!

I hope that I don’t come out as argumentative. I was just clarifying a few things that you may have misjudged… Hope to get into the best fit!