International Student Chance?

niceshrp
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 02:10:09 +0000

I am just curious, I am a Canadian student
and I am probably going to go to a Canadian university like Alberta or McGill,
so my stats like SATs and ECs are pretty low, but I was wondering if I had ANY chance at any of the following schools:
Stanford, HYP, Cornell, JHU, Darthmouth, Duke, Berkeley, Chicago, Northwestern, Brown

GPA/Ranking: school doesn’t have GPA nor Ranking… in grade 11 my average grade was 94.8%.
Doing IB diploma, finished IB SL Bio and IB SL Math (7 in both)
Grade 12 course:
IB English (HL), IB Geography (HL), IB Chemistry (HL), IB AB Japanese, IB Physics (SL or HL…I am not sure yet), Senior Jazz Band, TOK

SAT I: Math 800, Reading 690 (ugh…), Writing 720 (essay 9…ugh…) = 2210
I didn’t really study for the SATs… so I didn’t do that well…I will retake.
SAT II: Korean 800, Math IIC 800, Bio (will take…expecting 700+).

Nationality: Canadian, but Asian.
EC: How do people include more than 6 activities on the commonapp? I will just put what I will put in the commonapp.

Grade 11,12: Established International Group for my community to help recent international or immigrant students adjust to the new life…I was in a local Korean newspaper
Grade 8 - 12: Part of CCM band at my church, played main bass guitar and synthesizer. Also led children’s Sunday programs.
Grade 8 - 11: Club soccer. In grade 9 - 10, I was in the most competitive club regional team (metro team), but I don’t think it would count for much.
Grade 9-11: varsity tennis, played some club tennis as well… ranked 100 something in the province…but again, I don’t think it would count for much lol
Duke of Edinburgh: Gold Award Qualification.
Grade 9-10: Volunteered with Canadian Blood Services…over 150 hours volunteer
Grade 11: Peer helper

Work experience:
Summer intern for a local church: Did office works like accounting, led Sunday programs for children, carried out projects like interviweing people and posting their stories on website, 35 hours/week.
Worked as a janitor for a maintenance company: it’s just a cleaning job…3hrs/week
Tutored tennis, English, ESL

Awards:( I seriuosly lack in this area…)
just honor rolls… some subject awards like math, business, English, socials…distinction award for math contests…

I am going for ‘make or break it’ since Canadian universities base their admission decisions on the grades only…
I will have to apply for financial aid/scholarship, so I pretty much have to apply to top schools like HYP…I know that I will get rejected by most of those colleges…(seeing that most of CCers stats are abosolutely amazing…lol), but I was wondering if I even had a slight chance?

By the way, does anyone know any schools other than those listed that offer generous financial aid to International Students?

Thx in advance.