<p>I posted a chance thread a while ago, well i've been doing some research and there are few schools that offer need-based financial aid, those are:</p>
<p>-MIT(i believe i need a math test to apply to this one)
-Harvard
-Yale
-Princeton
-Dartmouth
-Stanford
-U.Chicago
-Columbia</p>
<p>I'm asking for honest opinions because this is my only chance to go to college, I am aware that these top schools receive thousands of applications from outstanding students around the world, I understand that they are HUGE reaches and that my posibilities are really small but maybe someone knows in which school or schools I have a better chance, considering my background and stats.
Also, would it increase my chances applying ED to any of these schools?
Here are my stats again:</p>
<p>This is the rest of my info:
- Rank 1/40
- Founder of the science club
- President of the school
- National Youth Science Camp peruvian delegate 2009
- Captain of the soccer team
- Inter-militaryschool boxing champion (sophomore, junior and senior year)
- Regional Youth Councelor Avanzada Catolica (Catholic group).
- Medical assistant for 30 months.
- First generation high school graduate and college student(hopefully).
- A lot of community service including 5 trips to poorest areas of my country bringing food, clothes and medical care (each trip 2-5 weeks long)
-18/20 GPA.
-Half orphan(is that the term??)
AP's and Honor Classes not available.
Work experience:
- Construction worker for 2 years
- Peer tutor since I was 12(this was actually a job because i got paid to do it, i think some people in the US do it for free, not the case)
- Basic science and math private tutor for 2 years
- Family annual income: < $6000</p>
<p>I am planning to major in Biochemistry. Any advice will be welcome. Thanks in advance :)</p>
<p>gloves1, thank you very much for your response.
Catria, thanks for your reply. Can you recommend a couple of safeties for me? Please consider that i need a lot fin aid(annual income < 6K). Thanks :).</p>
<p>Your stats are very impressive and your EC’s are great. Are you a minority? That will help you out even more. If you write stellar essays, I think you could get into at least one of those schools. I do agree with the above poster that you should add some safeties, especially if this is your only chance to go to college. We can’t pick safeties for you but with your stats I’m sure you’ll find some good ones.</p>
<p>instagrammar, yes i’m hispanic.Would applying ED increase my chances??? GWU, Northeastern University, Rochester,American U, BU are these schools safeties?? or matches?? thanks.</p>
<p>whoa are you an international student? your chances look great for most of these colleges because I know they are looking for top excellent international students which you definitely are. i think you are as good as they get. but remember getting into top schools sometimes depends on luck. i think you have a good shot at all of them. good luck! chance me too :)</p>
<p>Wow thank you so much collegebound202, yes i’m an international student,i’m praying everyday for this to happen i’ll definitely keep my finger crossed :).</p>
<p>Well first I hope you are applying to several safety schools. The Ivies are pretty darn competitive. Also, your going to need to get at least a 2350 (2400 is ideal) if you wanna get into MIT, Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Think about it. Those schools all get applicants who have both a perfect or near perfect GPA and 2400’s on their SAT scores, yet half of them are always are rejected. My point is, yes its a numbers game but you really need to shine form the rest. Especially the Ivies because they don’t like to see the same things in their applicants over and over again. Prove to them that your different somehow. As for the other schools, you seem fine and you def will get in. So just take your apps seriously and if you can raise those SATs.</p>
<p>footballkim54, thank you for your response, i’m planning to retake the sat’s hopefully i’ll score above 2300 and if i don’t i guess i won’t apply to the ivies.</p>