What are my chances?

Dragonblade
Sat, 17 Jun 2017 07:51:56 +0000

Actually that list of schools (except for NYU) are “safeties” (i guess?).My score corresponds to their 75th percentile SAT scores which means i have a decent chance of getting in.Also i didn’t just randomly stumble upon those schools.3 of them(trinity, skidmore,union) offer almost as much aid as IVYs to international students, so if i get in AID shouldn’t really be a problem for those 3.(Especially Trinity, as far as i know, they cover all financial needs of an applicant if they get it.) So i really can’t afford to add any “worse” schools because they simply won’t cover my needs.
My dream school was UCLA but i learned that they don’t offer aid to internationals.(Sucks to be an international student, doesn’t it?)

About SAT scores:
I took the SAT first time in January with no prep and pretty much went in blind
Got a 1190 (510 R/W 680 Math)
I prepped after that for about 35 hours in total got my 1460 in the May test
1460 (680 R/W 780 Math)
You can see that Math is almost perfect and i think with just a little bit more prepping i can get 800s consistently.
If i do find a capable tutor(That’s gonna be EXTEMERLY hard) that can help me out with English then i can probably increase my R/W score a good amount in the summer and retake in October.
I really don’t know what else there is i could possibly do to bolster my ECs.Work in the summer? I don’t know.
It’s almost unbelievable that i am able to compete with top applicants from the US and all over the world.I don’t necessarily need to go to an IVY(although it’d be nice) but still.