International student's chances?

Lxmx
Sat, 17 Dec 2005 20:16:20 +0000

Hey there, I’m an Australian student and I would like to know what you guys think my chances are of getting into the following colleges:

University of San Diego
UC San Diego
San Diego State
UCLA
University of Illinois Urbana
University of Tampa
Cal. State Uni Long Beach
Syracuse
Texas A&M

Any additions/alterations?

My stats:

My country of birth is South Africa, my country of citizenship is Portugal and my country of residence is Australia (does that help at all? Diversity or something?) I go to boarding school in Australia.

My high-school performance in South Africa (Grade 9 - 10 ) was really bad, I’d estimate a GPA from those years of 2.5 .
My high-school performance since coming to Australia (Grade 11 - 12) has improved dramatically; I’d estimate my GPA to be around 3.6+ .

I’m top of the class (or very near) in most of my subjects; Ancient History, Legal Studies, Biology & Advanced English.
Maths is another story, but it’s not good.

SATs: CR 660 , M 610 , W 640

My estimated UAI (Which is pretty much my ranking within the state) is 92. So that means top 8% of the state.

Extra curriculars:

Community:
South Africa:
Helping AIDS children in orphanages (9 - 10)
Helping old-age people in townships (9 - 10)
Australia:
Community service rep for the boarding house.
Involvement in various fundraisers.

Sport:
South Africa:
‘A’ Team soccer
Track & field team
Aus:
2nd Team Soccer, hopefully 1st Team next year
Track & field team (hoping to get 10.30 in the 100m next year)

Other:
In South Africa I was class president throughout my time there.
I’m a prefect in my current school (it’s like a highly selective leadership role), which is very unusual seeing as I’ve only been there for 1 year.
I’m the Assistant Head of the boarding house.
I’m can speak English, Afrikaans, Portuguese and Zulu (Again, diversity or something?).

I don’t plan on getting financial aid, however I don’t think any of the universities I’m applying to even give aid to internationals.

Thanks for taking the time to read this.