Can you Please help me make my College list?

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<p>I am a Canadian Asian Male student
and I would like to study in US for college education, and I would like to receive as much finanacial aid as possible. </p>

<p>I am not shooting for Ivy or Top-tier schools necessarily, but any schools that would offer me some kind of monetary support. Could anyone please suggest any suitable colleges that would offer me financial aid or scholarship? </p>

<p>GPA/Ranking: School doesn't have GPA nor Ranking.
In Canadian standard, all A's. Had 94.8% average in Grade 11
Doing IB diploma, finished IB SL Bio and IB SL Math (7 in both)
Grade 11 courses:
IB Chemistry 11 - 95%
IB English 11 - 90%
IB Geography 11 - 94%
IB Biology 12(SL) - 94%
IB Math 12(SL) -98%
AB Japanese 11 - 98%
Tok
Summer School Physics 11 - 100%</p>

<p>Grade 12 courses:
IB English (HL)
IB Geography (HL)
IB Chemistry (HL)
AB Japanese
IB Physics (SL or HL...I am not sure yet)
Senior Jazz Band
TOK</p>

<p>SAT I: Math 800, Reading 690, Writing 720 = 2210
I haven't really studied for SATs, I will retkae in December.
SAT II: Korean 800, Math IIC 800, (will take Bio..expecting 700+).</p>

<p>EC: I will just put what I will put in the commonapp. </p>

<p>Grade 11,12: Established and led International Group for my community to help recent international or immigrant students adjust to the new life..I was in a local Korean newspaper and featured as one of the future prospective students. (5 hrs/week)
Grade 8 - 12: Part of CCM band at my church, played main bass guitar and synthesizer. Also led children's Sunday programs. (3 hrs/week)
Grade 8 - 11: Club soccer. In grade 9 - 10, I was in the most competitive regional team (metro team) (6 hrs/week), then dropped to a low level (3.5 hrs/week), couldn't handle the workload.
Grade 9-11: varsity tennis, played some club tennis as well.. ranked 100 something in the province... (6 hrs/week).
Duke of Edinburgh: Gold Award Qualification.
Grade 9-10: Volunteered with Canadian Blood Services...over 150 hours volunteer
Grade 11: Peer helper, Environmental Protection Agency Secreatary</p>

<p>Work experience:
Grade 11 Summer: Summer intern for a local church: Did office works like accounting, led Sunday programs for children, carried out projects like interviweing people and posting their stories on website, (35 hours/week).</p>

<p>Grade 8 - 11 Worked as a janitor for a maintenance company: (3hrs/week)</p>

<p>Grade 11 summer: Tutoring: tennis, English, ESL (7 hrs/week)</p>

<p>Awards
Grade 8 -11: Honor roll with distinction, Certificate of distinction from Math contests (top 25%)
Grade 8: Scholar athlete, multiple sports award, English and Social subject awards, placed 12th overall in regional math contest, 36th in provincial...part of math team finishing 3rd in regionals
Grade 9: Business10 Subject Award, Math 10 subject award</p>

<p>I am very well aware of the fact that it would be very difficult for me to secure any financial aid/scholarship. But would anyone be kind enough to list some schools that would offer me any kind of money? </p>

<p>Thx in advance.</p>

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<p>oh, and I would like to study biology or business (I know it's a quite a gap...)</p>

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<p>For Bio
UC Berk (fit)
UCLA (fit)
Wash U (reach)
JHU (match): if you are serious about JHU ED since their ED is 50% my friend ED to JHU with 1980 for BME and he got in</p>

<p>since you are korean like my self your parents will tell you right now
HARVARD.. HARVARD and HARVARD...</p>

<p>Business
UC Berk
U Mich
Northwestern (they are doing the undergraduate program for Kellogg)
UPENN
NYU
MIT</p>

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<p>hmm... thank you King is here.
Umm, was your friend also an international student or US student?
I would definitely ED JHU if I can just get in....</p>

<p>Anyone else?</p>

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<p>please ? ....</p>

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<p>niceshrp, cuz u're an intl needing aid, i'd not advise u to apply to public schools. they provide VERY few big scholarships to intl students (these scholarships, if available, are damn competitive), plus out-of-state tuition can be very high. u can also search among the LACs; many do offer biology while biz is harder to find (most of the time they only have econ). do u have any other criteria like location, grad school placement, a specific EC?</p>

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<p>Some (many?) colleges and universities treat Canadians like US citizens and permanent residents rather than like internationals in terms of financial aid. UPenn is the first one that comes to my mind.</p>

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<p>Thx for the replies
Which LACs would be good for biology?
I would really like to go to schools like UPenn, but with these stats I think they are very far reach.</p>

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<p>Oberlin! Great aid!</p>

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<p>Lafayette isn't that bad with aid either :D</p>

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<p>Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore and many more!...</p>

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<p>Thank you, you guys have been a big help ~</p>

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<p>Er, in response to #3, from what I've heard, NYU is not good with the intl financial aid. Actually, what a bunch of the intl kids going to Stern (the business school) are saying is that they get nothing. (The rest of us get next to nothing, if anything at all, unless if we're really lucky.) Really, NYU is notorious for its really bad financial aid for just about anyone. You can try, but don't be surprised if you are offered very little.</p>

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<p>thx ijailin for your advice.</p>

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<p>The UCs dont get finaid to intels (UCB and UCLA)
JHU ED was 45% last year.. or 2 years ago? i cant remember.
A safety school you can apply to can be U of Rochester.. they give good merit aids to intels and they have a really strong bio department..
You should also look into Rice and Duke for bio.
Northwestern kellogg + UMich ross + NYU stern are great schools for business.. But the the compeitition is fierce..</p>

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<p>thx, I will look into Rochester.
Does anyone know if U of Michigan offer generous FA to Canadian students?</p>

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<p>Oh, Canadians are a special case....Many Unis will consider you as Special Int'l student.(Which means, you can enjoy a good FA policy! Like in Upenn!!!)...Check with the uni's policies...</p>

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<p>Really? Canadians receive more generous FA than regular international students? THx for the info</p>