Chance me: Indian International for Industrial Design, 41/45 IB, 1520 SAT, no aid needed

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics
International student
Indian Senior in high school
Male

Intended Major(s)

Industrial Design/Product Design

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores
IB Predicted Grade: 41/45
SAT: 1520 Superscore (760 both sections)
IELTS: 8.5
No Class Rank

Coursework

IB: Math AI HL, Physics HL, Design HL, Business Management SL, Spanish B SL, English SL

Awards

  • International English Olympiad ranked 72nd internationally
  • Some school awards for excellence in Design and BM
  • School Honor Roll
  • Top 50 in Infinity International Maths Competition organized by Aditya Birla Foundation, BITS Pilani, and University of Waterloo

Extracurriculars

  • Wrote and published multiple books. First one was when I was 7 years old; total of 3 books published, with 4th on the way.
  • Paid Content Writing Internship for 3 months
  • Organized and facilitated an international scale official IB event called the Festival of Hope which happened for the first time in the Asian region. Was selected out of 400+ students for this. Involved multiple IB dignitaries.
  • Part of publication and editorial team in Student gov.
  • Community service - Volunteered at temples, local schools, and distribute resources to underpriveliged every week
  • Conducted and led storytelling sessions for underprivileged children in government schools for 8-9 months.
  • Table Leader and Facilitator at Julia Robinson Math Festival
  • Extremely active in various School newsletters and event promotions
  • Couple of MOOCs from edX, including a Design Thinking Course from TU DELFT
  • School recognitions and local media coverage as a budding writer (when I was younger)
  • Multiple social media pages based on writing, including Insta, Blogs etc.
  • Podcast on YouTube and Spotify about mythologies from around the world
  • Virtual Job Simulations from Accenture, Tata, and more, via Forage.

Essays/LORs/Other

Counsellor LOR: 9/10 (Likes me a lot)
Design Teacher: 9/10 (Best student in his class, also likes me a lot)
English Teacher: 8/10 (Probably the one I show most personality with, knows me the best)

Schools
UIC (Accepted EA)
Purdue (EA)
Georgia Tech (EA)
University of Cincinnati (EA)
University of Washington (RD)
CMU (RD)
Stanford (RD)

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Congratulations on making yourself a strong applicant! I don’t know enough about the industrial design programs at those specific schools, but did you have to submit a portfolio for any of them? If so, I don’t think anyone online can chance you, as the portfolio is usually a major factor in admissions decisions.

If a portfolio was not required, I’d expect you to get into U. of Cincinnati and I think you’d have at least a 50/50 shot at Purdue and maybe at U. of Washington. Georgia Tech, CMU, and Stanford are the definite reaches here. I wouldn’t be surprised if you were admitted to all of them as you are a strong candidate, but the majority of strong candidates do not get an acceptance because those schools have far more strong applicants than they have spots.

Wishing you the best of luck!

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I agree. But CMU likes full pay international students, so that should give you a boost.

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Yes, they like them, but CMU is need blind. The decisions are made by the design faculty anyway, so it’s all about the strength of your portfolio

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Not true. They are only need blind for US citizens and permanent residents.

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All international students there are paying full price. Are you suggesting that CMU has a quota of how many international students to admit to increase their bottom line and thus different admissions standards for international vs the US students? Otherwise your statement that “CMU likes full pay international students, so that should give you a boost” is unsubstantiated

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Read my statement in context (post #3). I was saying, compared to OP’s other reaches, he will get a boost at CMU as a full-pay international applicant.

Since this point is not central to what OP is asking, if you have further comments or questions let’s take them to PM so as not to derail OP’s thread.

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The central point of the OP post was to chance him and I don’t believe that this statement of yours is correct.

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Since debating is disallowed by forum rules we can disagree and move on.

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Hi, thank you for the response. Yes I did have to submit a portfolio, but based on my stats and ECs, how much of a chance do you think I have on those reaches, especially GT and Stanford? Do you thing having a slightly less competitive major like Design will increase my chances?

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Your stats are within range for these schools, but whether industrial design as a major is going to help you will depend almost entirely on your portfolio.

Best of luck to you and it’d be great if you let us know how things turn out!

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