Chance me - Princeton , UPenn , Yale , UCLA

MWolf
Thu, 16 Sep 2021 05:58:20 +0000

nuts:

Unweighted HS GPA: 3.6

Class Rank: 10/2000

ACT/SAT Scores: 1590

What is the actual scale for your GPA? While many high schools have grade deflation, a 3.6 putting somebody at the to 0.5% seems pretty extreme, and a 3.6 paired with an SAT of 1590 is also pretty rare. If indeed that is your actual GPA, you will need your counselor to make sure that they understand that a 3.6 is about as high a GPA as your high school will provide.

You have excellent grades and test scores, and solid ECs. However, the percent of applicants from India who are accepted to Princeton, UPenn, or Yale are tiny, and that means that you have to be from the top 1% in the applicant pool on all levels. UPenn is need aware for international students, so that is even less likely.

UCLA does not provide much financial aid even to USA citizens who are not residents of California, so, financially, it is entirely out of reach.

You are an international students who requires financial aid, so you have no safeties, no likelies, and probably no matches. Because you need financial aid, even colleges at which your profile would be a match would be reaches, since you would be competing with a large number of international students who would be full pay.

So, depending on the amount of financial aid you need, you probably only have high reaches.

There are only 5 colleges which are need blind for international students, and their acceptance rates for students from India are all in the 1%-2% range.

If you would need lower amounts of financial aid, some colleges with higher acceptance rates may be interested enough that your chances would be better.

What can your parents afford?