<p>My list Is as follows . Please let me know my chances as well as edit it if possible . Add or remove anything . TY </p>
<p>1)UIUC
2)Umichigan
3)UMN Twin Cities
4)Rutgers
5)Purdue
6)Brown ( Even though I know i will get rejected) My dream school
7)Cornell " "
8)CMU
9)Duke
10)University of tornonto
11)Georgia tech</p>
<p>My stats are as follows :-</p>
<p>I want to Pursue an Undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering</p>
<p>1)High school marks - Grade 9 - 76.5%
Rank - 8/190</p>
<p>Grade 10- 77.8%
CBSE Board Exam
ENGLISH COMM. - 068 B2
HINDI COURSE-B - 080 B1
MATHEMATICS - 075 B1
SCIENCE - 089 A1
SOCIAL SCIENCE - 077 B1</p>
<p>Grade 11 - 57.5%
Rank - 7/160</p>
<p>Grade 12 - Expected grades given 90% by the school for the CBSE board exam Got 90% in the school exams as well</p>
<p>I think you need to explain your grades to us a bit–in the U.S., a grade of 57.5% would be failing or close to failing, and it certainly wouldn’t translate to a rank of 7 out of 160.</p>
<p>As I think you know, your scores are on the low side for Brown, Cornell, and Duke (at least). Will you be taking the test again?</p>
<p>this is the scale used by the school
by the way i ateend 1 of the most rigorous schools in India. It is considered to be 10 times tougher than the US curriculum . </p>
<p>That may be so, but it’s going to be hard to argue the rigor of your school with those SAT scores. If you can bring them up, your chances are pretty good everywhere.</p>
<p>you’ve posted this several times, each time we ask for you to explain the grading to us and you really haven’t at all. so i don’t know what you want…how can we accurately chance you?</p>
<p>I used to go to Korean schools, which are also considered to be “100 times more rigorous” than the US ones. Not only is the rigor part over-exaggerated, the top students got 90+%. I just find it very difficult to believe that A covers so much levels (How could someone getting 65% and 95% be grouped together? That’s like grouping a kid with 2350 SAT with another with 1850 SAT)</p>
<p>^In my MV Calc math class (in the states, public school) my teacher uses a similar grading scale, except starts at a 120 instead of a 100. I got a 110% first semester :)</p>
<p>Anyways, if you were from the US, you’d have a good shot to get into 1-5 and possibly 11. The others are reaches/high-matches for most top US students. I don’t know much about UofT except that it is a great engineering school, so I’m sure it will be difficult to get in as well. Being an international really changes things, generally for the worse.</p>
<p>Senior0991 brings up a very good point. My impression is that the competition is much fiercer among the international students, especially those from Asia. (I count India as part of Asia.) For example, I know a Chinese girl who had an 93.5% average, valedictorian, 2400 SAT, 10 APs (all 5s–English Lit, English Lang, Chem, Phys, Calcs, Am Hist, Latin Verg., etc) and still got turned down by HYPS, Brown, and Columbia. (She did get into Duke.)</p>
<p>i just have a few queries left .
when i had asked the school the grading system . the had given me this list . Now how do I make sure the colleges know this. My school does not have a counselor. So with some advice from some CCer’s I spoke to my Maths teacher and since she likes me a lot she has let me fill up everything in the teachers/counselors form and in the end she is just gonna go through it . So all i need is recommendation letters , she has told me to write down 1 and give it to her so that she will just go through and sign it for me . She wants me to write them/type them for her coz her english is not good . So Please help me out with this.</p>
<p>You must be joking… You can’t write your own recommendation letter. Not only is it unethical, it won’t work either. The college admissions officers have been doing their jobs long enough that they’ll know when something’s fishy. Your use of English won’t be subtle enough to trick them…</p>
<p>I suggest that you let her write it in Hindi, and hire a professional translator if the service is available. Much better solution, TRUST ME.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’s exactly unethical to write your own recommendation letter, as long as the recommender reads it, agrees with it, and signs it. It’s not really any different from telling the recommender what you’d like them to say. It’s a bit cheesy, I guess, but not exactly unethical.</p>
<p>Yeah, this is unethical but you will find at the higher levels of academia eg. postdoc fellowship recommendations, recommendations for medical residents etc, this is pretty common.</p>
<p>let me be clear . My teacher wants me to get in to a good university . So she has told me to check with some professional or experienced people , Which kind or what type of recommendations are good. Since she has no experience she has told me to get a few samples . My stats are posted up in few of my earlier posts . So i want you people to give me a few samples based on my stats and then the teacher will select the 1 which she feels is most appropriate for me. I hope u get my point. </p>
<p>P.S.- My teacher loves me . due to my average/above average grades. My excellent behaviour outside as well as in the classroom . she is a like a friend to me .</p>
<p>It would be unethical to sign the teacher’s name to a letter that the teacher had never seen. Writing the letter yourself and having the teacher sign it IF he/she approves of what it says seems to be completely ok to me (former college ethics instructor, for what that’s worth).</p>
<p>In business, the military, and other real-world situations, that’s how a lot of stuff gets done. A sizable % of military medals are awarded because a person writes a nomination for himself and has a superior sign it. Again, it’s COMPLETELY wrong if the signer doesn’t actually read it or is deceived in some way. But if the signer agrees with what it says, what’s the problem?</p>
<p>Let’s be realistic…many teachers are busy and/or lazy, and sometimes can’t write well. The student getting the letter of rec. shouldn’t suffer because the teacher can’t find the time or doesn’t have the ability to compose a well-written letter from scratch.</p>