<p>Does your high school typically send students to the US? If so, which colleges do they attend? And how do you compare to those students?</p>
<p>Without taking the competitive nature of your school into account (I don’t know your school so I cannot comment), I would say you are shooting too high. Your highest achievements are local only and your test scores, while competitive, are not high enough to make up for a lack of achievements elsewhere. To put things into perspective: Princeton assigns each applicant two numbers reflecting their academic and non-academic accomplishments: 4 stands for international recognition, 3 is national recognition, 2 is regional, 1 is local, 0 is none. Most Princeton students have a 3-2 rating. You would be a 1-1 or a 2-1 if your high school is extremely selective.</p>
<p>Coming back to the competitiveness of your high school: the very best high schools in the US send a third of their student body to Ivies and Ivy-caliber schools. Being in the top 15% at those schools would be a huge accomplishment. Being in the top 15% at most other US high schools would almost automatically disqualify you from attending the schools you are interested in. How does your school compare to American high schools? I don’t know…</p>
<p>My uneducated guess would be the following: </p>
<p>Out of your reach: Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, Berkeley
Reach: Brown, Columbia, UCLA, UCSD
No matches, no safeties</p>