Chance an international for LACs, please

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Swedish female (born 1990)
Graduated high school 2007 (two years earlier than normal in Sweden: skipped 6th grade (and a year in Kindergarten))
GPA 3.61 - unweighted
Public school
No rank</p>

<p>SAT I CR:700 W:680 M:770
SAT II MathII:780 Biology E:630 Physics:630 (will probably take Literature, German and maybe one of the history tests)</p>

<p>My school was one of the most competitive schools in Sweden (one of the only schools that required a test and an interview before admission) and I took the most rigorous course load available, including university courses in physics and math (we had professors come to our school).
I could get a third of the credits required for a swedish BA in math, that's how much math it was.
My school was also 400 kilometers from my hometown, so I moved away from home when I was 13 (it wasn't a boarding school, so I pretty much lived by myself).</p>

<p>Languages:
-German (5th grade-junior year)
-French (senior year)
-English (since 1st grade)
-Swedish</p>

<p>EQ:
-Helped arrange two math competitions for junior high school students
-Arranged one math competition for junior high school students as a special project senior year
-Recruitment officer for the schools math club
-Active in a political youth organization
-Played the violin (since 3rd grade)
-Dance (since 5th grade, once a week, with shows every semester)
-Volleyboll (since 5th grade, once a week)</p>

<p>Since I graduated this is what I've been up to:
Y1: Worked at a company with advertising and customer service
Y2: Took an English course at Stockholm University during the fall and during the spring I went (still there) as an au-pair to London
Y3: Will go as an au-pair to the US</p>

<p>Other stuff:
-Participated in a project with the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm where I wrote a paper on how farms affect the environment (in English) (senior year)
-Participated in an exchange program with a school in Finland where we wrote a paper on something relating to energy (sponsored by TeliaSonera) (junior year)
-Was chosen as one of two students from my school to attend a 3 day math conference (sort of) in Gothenburg (I won a problem solving competition) (senior year)
-Part time job during high school, 5-10 hrs/week - doing advertising and Internet stuff (designed the website, etc) for the same company I worked for full time after graduation
-My parents are divorced, my dad moves around a lot (Dubai, Costa Rica, China, etc) so I've spent a lot of my holidays abroad</p>

<p>I want to go to a liberal arts college and I will need financial aid. I'm thinking about majoring in political science. Feel free to suggest schools if you think of one that would be a good match for me.</p>

<p>These are some schools I'm considering:
Brown
Dartmouth
Wellesley
Grinnell
Wesleyan
Quinnipiac
Williams
Amherst
Middlebury
(the last three are all need blind for international students)</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>It's impossible to say without knowing how your grades stack up in your environment as colleges will know. If your GPA is top of class, then the ivies are realistic. If they are not, they are far less likely. And at many of your choices needing a little aid is no problem but needing a lot is. So you need to be more specific.</p>

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<p>My guess is that it was the top 10%, but it's just a guess. Another girl from my school got into Stanford, and we had pretty much the same GPA.
I'll need a lot of aid, my parents won't be able to contribute anything.</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure Amherst is not need blind for internationals although Dartmouth is. The problem is that at the need blind schools the competition is brutal and at Quninnipiac, getting full aid is a near impossibility. And with the global economy right now, most schools will be looking for full pay internationals. Therefore, like all internationals needing major aid, have a safety in your country.</p>

<p>In the end it will come down to the competition from your own country and whether these schools can get Swedes with similar stats who can pay.</p>

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<p>^"In the end it will come down to the competition from your own country and whether these schools can get Swedes with similar stats who can pay."</p>

<p>Need-blind schools could care less if other swedes could pay for the education. Thats why its called need-blind. I suggest you do your research instead of misleading kids!:)</p>

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<p>While only a couple of her schools are need blind, read some of the threads on the parent's board to up your knowledge Lobzz, need blind may not be exactly what colleges pretend it is. Such a coincidence they end up with the same percentage on aid every year!</p>

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<p>bump ^</p>