Will I get into Columbia?

Here’s the thing: you are an international student. As a rule of thumb take the overall acceptance rate for any given US university and figure that 8-14% of those accepted will be international students.

Does your school have experience sending students to the US? If so, you may have some direct info as to how students from your school typically fare at the unis on your list. Otherwise, I don’t see any of the universities that you list as safeties as real safeties, esp Wake Forest. UNC has a hard cap of 18% OOS students, and that includes recruited athletes, so it is a harder admit than it might look.

Aside from mostly being unis with names that people are likely to have heard of at home, what drew you to this particular list of names? What do you want from your US college experience, and do you have post-college goals? I’m struggling to see commonalities.

Your IB predictions are strong, though (imo) IB doesn’t get as much credit as it deserves.

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