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Comments about my overall profile please
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This is my profile (It'll be a bit long):

BASIC INFORMATION:

Asian (Indian)

International student

Private High School operating under CBSE Curriculum with a graduating class of 120 students

Female

No legacy (Actually, I’m the first in my family to intend to travel abroad)

Intended Majors

Biological sciences, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry

GRADES AND SCORES:

My school doesn’t report my GPA, but here are my final exam scores:

Grade 9: 95%

Grade 10: 98%

Grade 11: 93%

Top 5% of my graduating class

No honors classes or AP Classes are offered by my school

Took the SAT once and got a 1500

Coursework

Took online courses from Duke and Harvard

Attended classes from the nearby college on Biotechnology

Awards

International Foundation Reasoning and Aptitude Olympiad - International Rank 1

World Record in playing keyboard

National Winner in Aarohan, conducted by BITS Pilani University

Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Writing Competition- Bronze Award

Immerse Education Essay Competition- 90% Scholarship Winner

National Level Speed Arithmetic Competition- Champion of Champion

National level Science Talent Search Examination (NSTSE) TOP 25

State-Level Drawing Competition Winner

Extracurriculars

Keyboard Tutor(Volunteering) for 3 years

Discipline Captain of the School

Research member of the New York Academy of Sciences

Elocution/Oration

Independent Researcher (Has a home lab)

Content Writer in School Magazine

Volleyball Captain in school

Painting

Essays/LORs/Other

My essays were very personalized

In the Common App essay, I chose prompt 3 (Reflect on a time when you questioned or challenged a belief or idea. What prompted your thinking? What was the outcome?), where I talked about my disapproval of a certain Indian tradition

Another essay was based on my fat shaming and how I overcame it by winning 3 medals in the sports competitions

LORs by my English and Biology teacher, are pretty good and elaborate

Family income is less than $30,000

Require need-based financial aid

Schools

Amherst College

Brown University

Columbia University

Cornell University

Dartmouth College

Duke University

Harvard University

Johns Hopkins University

Michigan State University

MIT

New York University

Northwestern University

Princeton University

Rice University

Stanford University

The University of Alabama

University of Chicago

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

University of Pennsylvania

I was accepted into Purdue in Early action (with Honors College) and Deferred at Yale (SCEA)

Is my profile strong enough for these schools?

Comments about my overall profile, please.

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a year ago

Your profile is strong in all areas and will stand out in the international applicant pool!

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a year ago

Your profile is good for these colleges.

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Unweighted GPA: 3.7
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4.0
SAT: 720 math
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800
| 800 verbal
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800

Extracurriculars

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