Chance an International?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I never thought I'd make a thread in this forum, but here goes...
edit: I instantly regret posting this hahahaha</p>

<p>I'm a Canadian citizen, born and raised. My parents are Bangladeshi.
Schools
Harvard
Princeton
Wharton
Columbia
Dartmouth
+ Canadian safeties (McGill, University of Toronto, Queen's)</p>

<p>Stats:
SAT I: CR: 740 M: 700 W: 670 Total: 2110 (retaking in June, hoping to boost to 2200+)
SAT IIs: N/A
GPA: School doesn't give GPA (IB) would be 4.0 I guess
Rank: 1/5x
ACT: N/A
IBs: Predicted 41/42 without bonus points
Junior Year: History SL, French SL, English SL, Physics HL, Math HL, Chem HL, ToK
Senior Year: Math HL, Chem HL, Physics HL, English SL, Economics 12
Courseload: Most rigorous</p>

<p>Awards/Honors
Lieutenant Governor Award (2 per school)
City-wide Model UN Best Delegate
Citizenship Award (1 per school)</p>

<p>Significant Activities
Student Government Co-President next year
School Board Student Representative (not sure on this one yet)
Student Government Leadership Position this year (responsible for a committee)
- organized run for breast cancer
- organized gift wrapping event at mall for children's hospital
- organized head shaving fundraiser for cancer that raised over $12,000</p>

<p>Debate Club (Captain next year)
- Won a national level tournament
- Top 10 speaker / Finalists or semifinalists at various national level tournaments
- Invited to National Debating Seminar</p>

<p>Karate - Black Belt
Reach for the Top - Provincial Runner-Up
Model UN
Model Commonwealth
Model Parliament
Math Club Member
Summer volunteer at children's hospital</p>

<p>Job/Work Experience: Busboy at restaurant for a month haha, going to work all this summer</p>

<p>Province: Atlantic Canada I need sommee ambiguity. Across the province maybe 1 or 2 get into a top US school annually.
School Type: Public. It was a huge deal when a guy got into MIT last year.
Ethnicity: East Indian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: ~140k Canadian</p>

<p>Miscellaneous:
I play the violin.
I speak English, French, and Bengali.</p>

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<p>I feel so unloved.</p>

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<p>You're loved, illuminar. You have great ECs but you'll need to improve your SAT for Harvard, et al. Have you considered any of the select liberal arts colleges, like Carleton, Pomona, Vassar? Good luck to you!</p>

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<p>I've thought about UChicago, Harvey Mudd, Pomona, etc. but if I stay in Canada the tuition is much lower and I can probably get a large scholarship as opposed to paying huge international fees. </p>

<p>If I can get a great education in Canada for less than it would cost in the US, I would rather stay. The only schools that would justify the difference in cost would be the likes of Harvard, which give great aid anyway.</p>

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<p>I encouraged both of my girls to consider McGill. I knew it was an outstanding school and I felt that if a draft was instituted in the U. S. for our obscene war in Iraq, they might be able to hang out in Canada for awhile. ... They didn't listen to me, and now attend Carleton (Freshman) and College of Wooster (Soph). ... You should definitely apply to the Claremont Colleges. Pomona accepted my younger daughter and gave her a nice financial aid package, although she didn't choose it in the end. I'm sure they loved the fact that she was from Kentucky. I'm willing to bet Canada is under-represented in their student population. It's worth a try. Again, good luck!</p>

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<p>bump. I'm Canadian, that just barely qualifies as international haha</p>

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<p>International is beside the point. If Pomona (or whatever school) is under-represented by students from Canada, they might be willing to give you a better financial aid package than they would for someone from, say, California.</p>

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<p>Nono, I meant that for people who probably shy away from answering because the international pool is much different than the domestic one.</p>

<p>on a side-note, my parents lived in Lexington before they moved to Canada and my sister was born there >_></p>

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<p>We live in Lexington, coincidentally.</p>

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<p>BUMP (10 characters)</p>