How are international students looked at?

Heimann
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:47:38 +0000

I’m a Swedish white male attending one of the countries most prestigious private schools with a grade point average of 20.0 (out of 20). I’ve also taken the SAT and for natural reasons I didn’t score as well as I would have if I would have been American. 1900/2400 or 1300/1600 was my combined score.

We don’t have APs or IB or anything like that in my school so I guess the schools I apply to can’t look at that but my question is how the hell will they compare me to American students if at all? Will I get to compete on another quota? The schools I am looking at are all very competative schools and considering my relatively low SAT score I might have no shot at all I don’t know.

I’m looking at: Berkeley, USC, Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, Stanford and Georgetown.

Also (last question I promise!) I was wondering what SAT subject tests to take as Georgetown requires one to take three. I have no idea and obviously no one to ask at my school as all the information we get is pretty focused on Swedish universities and such.

Thank you so much in advance!

// David