Chance Me - Indian Boy (International)

aunt_bea
Sat, 22 Feb 2020 18:20:15 +0000

All of the schools on your list are extreme reaches because they are difficult to gain entry for a number of reasons.

-Too many qualified applicants (tens of thousands) for a small finite number of seats. These are American universities that use federal dollars for research, which means they admit the children of American taxpayers first and foremost.

-You require financial aid. This will definitely affect your chances to almost 0%. Dollars are extremely limited. Again, Federal and private aid targets US students. (Your list includes **NYU **which is infamous for poor to no funding).

-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.

-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.

-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.

If you’ve already applied then you have that experience, so, your back ups in India are probably your best bet.