Chances of an international senior for chemistry major at public unis

[vyper47real]

@SJ2727

Curious as to why only publics - are you full pay? Top privates are likely to be more generous financially. They may also care more that your country is underrepresented. Are you applying to UK unis as well?

@DadTwoGirls , in a British based system, 90% is a significantly better grade than it looks to an American. And agree the schools will be aware of each country’s grading system. Also, to OP’s point about grade deflation at his/her school, if this school does indeed send people regularly to tippy-tops then it clearly has a counseling office that is successfully able to explain the grading system to US colleges.

Here’s the weird thing: in my country, you study 9th and 10th grade at a different school, and 11th/12th grade at a different “college” (that’s what they’re called here). The “college” sends people to tippytops and admin is really cooperative. With my previous school though, things are kinda bad. My GPA is around 4.3 out of 5 (unweighted), but I rank 5th in class of 50. Again, this is not the same as American GPA - you get a 5 if you score >80%, a 4 if >70% and so on. That school doesn’t really care about students

However, I have a cool teacher from previous school who agreed to write me a nice LOR