Chance me - Harvard SCEA, JHU, Yale, Rochester (REMS), Browns (PLME), Stanford

Chance Me / Match Me!
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GPA: 90% average of grade 9 - 11, in Canada we have 0-100% scale and I’m in a rather competitive program so this is definitely one of my cons

Class Rank: N/A for my school

ACT: 34
Subscores: Science (34), English (31), Reading (34), Math (35), Writing (8)
Does writing matter too much?

SAT Subject Tests:
I’ll be taking Bio M and Math 2 in November. Probably will score around 750-800
WIll it hurt my chances for SCEA since I’m taking in November?

AP’s (at time of application)
Biology - 4
My school doesn’t do APs and so I just did one for fun with self-studying

Teacher Recs: I’m asking my biology and english teacher who both love me.
In addition to this, I will be asking my lab PI to write me a recommendation letter. She’s a professor at Harvard in neuroscience, which is what I want to do in the future, so hopefully that will be helpful.

Province: Ontario
Gender: F
Ethnicity: Asian, Sri Lankan
Income: 250K
Possible hooks: Research, won a research paper competition? Top 10 youth environmentalist in Canada? 3rd place in international south indian carnatic singing contest?

Major ECs:

  • Environmental Youth Council - had an internship there one summer
  • Biology Club VP
  • Neuroscience club - President
  • Choir - VP
  • UofT choir
  • Carnatic music
  • Executive on a medical related organization
  • teach carnatic music to youth from low income families for free

Community Service:

  • Tutoring
  • Singing in hospitals

Medically related activities:

  • Volunteered in three labs
  • Executive on a medical related organization
  • Wrote a paper that won an award

Awards:

  • Regional Sci Fair - Silver, 2 Bronze, University Environmental Award
  • 3rd place in International singing competition
  • Distinction in national math contest
  • Best Overall Research Paper in a Highschool Research Paper competition
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@ecoearth The schools and BS/MD programs you are applying to (with the exception of JHU) all have acceptance rates in the single digits for US students, and considerably lower than that for international students. Odds for any international applicant, even with near perfect stats are very, very low.

You keep asking a variation of the same question in multiple threads. @gibby previously gave you a very good answer: http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/discussion/comment/20795685/#Comment_20795685

You previously wrote: “My parents income is definitely over 250k+ but a lot of it goes towards healthcare. If I do get in, and don’t get financial aid, I doubt I will attend an american university considering how much cheaper it is in Canada. Applying to American universities is more my dream, than my parents’ and if I do get in, they would be happy to help, but I am definitely also applying to Canadian schools that are financially feasible.” To drop the net cost of the most generous aid granting US programs close to what the $30K full pay would be at McGill for a Canadian, those healthcare expenses you mention would have to be really huge, probably dropping your parent’s “over 250k+” down to a net after healthcare of under 120K.

So, to sum up, odds for international students are very, very low, odds of a 40K+ financial aid award with a 250K+ income are probably even lower.

Good luck.