Chance me for highly selective schools (please enter)

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School Type: Model (public that you give exams to enter before 7th grade, thus very selective and competitive)
Location: Greece
Race/Gender: Greek female
Prospective Major: something STEM-oriented but i havent decided yet
In greece we are graded out of 20 and my gpa was 19,9/14 out of 20. I converted it to your system
Unweighted GPA: 3.92/4
Weighted GPA: 4.9/5 (i just calculated it out of 5 i dont know what weighted is)
Class rank: school doesnt rank but im in the top 5%
Havent taken tests yet

Extracurricular Info

  • speaker of three languages: Greek (native speaker), English (C2 certificate), German (B2 certificate)
  • 2018: took part in Greek Student Parliament of Science and was voted to represent my country in the European Student Parliament of Science (July 2018, Toulouse)
  • 2017: participated in an conference hosted by the Hellenic-Italian union that took place in Naples
  • 2015-2018: 2 years 15-member school counsil, 2 years 5-member class counsil
  • 2014-2018: 4 years math club, 1 year psychology club, 1 year STEM club
  • 2006-2017: classical ballet lessons, among with other dances including 3 years of contemporary dance, 3 years of modern dance, 3 years of greek traditional dance

Honours:
-2018: won 2nd place with the STEM team of my school in national “create your own seismograph” contest anδ was awarded at Athens Science Festival

  • 2014-2018: 4 excellence awards from my school (award that all students with very good gpas get), 1 award for coming first in my class
  • 2014-2018: national math competitions
  • 2017: second place in the international Purple Comet Math Meet contest (with the math team of my school)
  • 2016: first place in the international Purple Comet Math Meet contest (with the math team of my school)
  • 2014: first place in the exams to enter my school (1/ about 700) (i know its old but its considered a great accomplishment)

No job experience (will that hurt my application?)
I will attend a stem oriented summer school this year, i just havent decided which one yet, so im not referring to it fior the time being
Also i took part in a national chemistry contest in which i did amazing but the resullts havent been announced yet

Other:
Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes

Due to the fact that im a sophomore, i will most prossibly keep doing those things. I know that without test scores you cant chance me, but you can tell me if im in the right direction or note something. Any comments will be helpful. Please dont tell me bout fincancial aid, i know how hard it will be i just need solid opinions on my stats.
Thank you all in advance!

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Your current grades and ECs are fine. Keep up the hard work. Sounds like you are already aware of the uphill battle for US admission needing aid, so keep being grounded in your expectations.

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Looking forward, I’d think your prospects would be good for attending an excellent U.S. college, even with your need for financial aid considered. Are you seeking specific college suggestions? If so, are you potentially interested more in core STEM fields (e.g., physics, chemistry, geosciences, biology, math) or engineering?

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@merc81 Specific suggestions would be very helpful and appreciated! Im more interested in math and engineering but I have not decided yet.

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If you were to start with your interest in math, you could research colleges included in a Princeton Review sampling, “Great Schools for Mathematics Majors”:

Harvey Mudd
MIT
UChicago
Caltech
Haverford
Harvard
Hamilton
Bowdoin
Reed
Rice
Carleton
Grinnell
Macalester
Bryn Mawr
URochester

These colleges tend to offer the additional benefit of being very well funded with respect to financial aid. Not all offer direct engineering programs, though, so you would want to consider this as you further develop your academic interests.

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Thank you so much, that was extremely helpful!

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When my son was 3, he’d sometimes ask me the same question over and over and over again. For a while, I’d patiently answer each and every time. After a while, it grew frustrating that he’d ask the exact same thing multiple times, so I asked him why he asked the same question over and over and over again. He shrugged and said “I don’t believe you.”

Guess he was hoping to get a different answer.

You have asked the same question multiple times over a short period of time. What exactly are you hoping to hear?

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@milee30 I’m hoping to hear opinions from more people, in order to have more realistic expectations