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I got rejected from every college in the us

Hi, I am international student and I applied to us universities this year on regular decision

Here are my stats:

4.0 unweighted GPA ( my school doesn’t have weighted GPA)

Duolingo score- 130

SAT- 1280 and because of that I applied test optional everywhere

Honors & Activities

2nd & 3rd Place in Literature Bowl

(1,500+ participants each year.)

Regional Chemistry Olympiad: 2nd Place Medalist (Top 2 out of 1,000+ competitors).

Regional Physics Olympiad: 3rd Place Medalist (Top 3 out of 1,000+ competitors).

Government Academic Excellence Award — Top 1% nationally; recipient of state-issued price laptop.

FLEX (Future Leaders Exchange) program winner, spent 1 academic year in Texas high school (1-2% rate) with full scholarship.

NASA International Space Apps Challenge (48 hour international hackathon) Regional Winner- leader of the team that created board game for astronauts adapted to microgravity

Captain of 6-person team, 3 consecutive city and 1 regional titles in Quiz Bowl

Culinary Arts Scholar in local culinary college with full scholarship

Several Debate tournament finalist

Math peers tutor at school

Literature club founder

Dnd Club founder/DM Master/Designer

Equestrian in local horseback riding club

Red Cross School Ambassador & Youth Volunteer

(Organized 5+ eco-projects; collected supplies for 20 families. Recruited 30+ volunteers.)

Colleges list

Bates college

Colgate university

Denison university

Franklin and Marshal college

Furman university

Grinnell college

Kenyon University

Lafayette College

Oberlin College

Sewanee

Skidmore College

Whitman College

I applied to liberal arts colleges mostly because I haven’t chosen what i want to do so I applied undecided asking for almost full aid. I’ve always liked liberal arts style education and I wanted to try.

can you tell me why I got rejected from every college? I don’t think reason was essays because I spent a lot of time and everything was good

was it because-

I applied test optional?

I applied only on regular decision January

I was asking full ride scholarship

I don’t have good activities or honors

I am taking gap year and applying againg so I would appreciate pieces of advice what i need to improve or change, How I can change, what mistakes I made and etc.

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As intl applying for full aid, you have way lower chances. But the major error you made was not taking out time to do well on the SAT and u instead applied test optional...US Schools need the SAT to evaluate your academic standing since they cannot fully judge your school grades.

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Your chancing factors
Unweighted GPA: 3.7
1.0
4.0
SAT: 720 math
200
800
| 800 verbal
200
800

Extracurriculars

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