Hey guys! I’m an international student from an Eastern European country looking to study in the US.I was hoping if you guys could chance/recommend me some good universities in the US for Biochemistry/Cellular Biology that offer good financial packages for international students like me.My parents earn a decent sum of money in my country , but that doesn’t compare to the amount needed to pay tuition , so I could spend at most 10k$/year.
My reach school would be JHU and I was looking to apply to Colby or Brandeis as an EDII , since I saw they have good financial aid packages , as well as Rochester , Miami and Tulane.
Here are my stats!
- SAT 1400 (670 RW 730 M) with a 19 essay (7/5/7)
- SAT II Bio M: 770 Chemistry:730
TOEFL:
111 (30 R 30 L 23 S 28 W)
GPA: Schools here don’t rank but I am top 2% of the class.
Ethnicity: White
Sex: Male
Grade: 12
Income: like 30k$/year , family of 4 (I got a little sister) , but we don’t have any mortgage or debt and my family owns some land in a village that can be immediately sold to the state/private companies if I ever have financial problems.
Coursework:
I’m at a pretty prestigious Math and CS school here in my country.Students in my country have like 13 subjects/year during high school , so I have 4 years of biology/chemistry/physics/maths/computer science/english/german/history/geography and other subjects (yeah , the education system here is pretty bad).
EC:
-15th place at the 2018 National Biology Olympiad for my age group.
-24th place in the country for the 2018 preliminary International Biology Olympiad qualification stage (hoping to qualify this year , wish me luck !! <3).
-Participated at the 2017 and 2018 National Earth Sciences Olympiad.
-Did 8 years of handball at my local professional team (that now plays in the junior league).
-Class representative in the School Council for over 4 years now (where we present students with volunteering opportunities , we manage school events etc.).
-Started teaching basic C++ to a class of junior students at my school (basically their prof is also my prof and he lets me and another guy teach for his class , it’s extremely amusing 
!)
-Participated at an Excellence Center (basically a cram school for olympiads where we discuss past papers and 1st year undergraduate stuff) in Biology in the 2017-2018 school year.
I have also been offered places at UK universities (e.g. Glasgow) which have good programs , so I want you to be as harsh and realistic as possible 
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If you have other unis that have a good undergraduate program and offer good financial aid packages for students like me , please let me know!
Thanks for reading!