Chance me please...

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm an international student from West Africa
SAT: 680 CR, 800 M, 720 W
SAT 2: 760 M2, 730 Phy ( I didn't have enough time to prepare as I was taking my final school exams, so I used what I learnt in school)</p>

<p>CUMULATIVE GPA: 87.5 (It's virtually impossible to get 100 or above 100s in our country, its even rare to get a 90, but if I use the numbers of As I have as a factor then it is 3.97)
IGCSEs: 4A*s 3As
Rank: 2/84</p>

<p>ECS:
Orchestra Trumpet 2 player- Played in a couple of assemblies, Christmas Carols and popular events
School Choir: Tenor Singer
Church Choir:Tenor Singer
Debate Team: Won a couple of debates throughout high school
Quiz Team: Won a couple of quizzes for my school
Science Olympiad
Community Service: We urged the School to all donate $10 to Haiti (a boy brought the idea up), we came up with $5000 and a certificate from UNICEF. We washed parents cars when they came to our school and got about $500 which we donated to Charity. We organized school raffle draw in which we got a profit of about $600. We give to the Orphans and Less Privileged around our school $250 a week. We've done a lot more that I'm too lazy to list.</p>

<p>Volunteer Work:
I always arrange the Library for the Librarian after school
Helped the Librarian take care of the Library while she went to take care of her baby at home.
Taught some Kids who were having challenges and didn't understand their teachers
Arrange the assembly hall ( I didn't do this a lot because they were already people who did this)
Helped some lazy teachers mark Junior Students exam papers</p>

<p>Work Experience: Worked at the Electrical Engineering department in ECOWAS Headquarters.
I also learned a couple of programming languages including iOS </p>

<p>Academic Honors:
Valedictorian
Bronze Medal in National Science Competition
Overall Best Male Student throughout High School
GI College Award
A lot of subject awards from my school.
School Annual Quiz Award -Most Valuable Participant
Stam Annual Quiz Award
My room is literally filled with certificates and plaques do they matter?
Financial Aid: My mom is a single parent of two is that a hook? She can pay about $30000 but the rest I'll need financial aid.</p>

<p>I'm looking to apply ED to Cornell, RD to UCB, UCLA, MIT, Stanford (I'm not sure if they give financial aid to Internationals), Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, GTech, Princeton, Yale, Brown and about four safeties. Please chance me and tell me those that give reasonable financial aid to International students.</p>

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<p>Bump please</p>

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<p>I doubt you’re going to get any financial aid from UCB, GTech, and UCLA because they’re public schools. No clue about the others though.</p>

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<p>I do not believe most top US colleges will consider IGCSE an equivalent of a high school diploma for college bound students. It is more like junior year in high school. Most students who come from an IGCSE background, I believe, will usually complete IB or A Levels (equivalent to our AP classes) before attending top colleges in the US. You have good standardized test scores so do well on some A levels next year then apply.</p>

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<p>@perazzimanThe IGCSEs were just something I took along the way, I’ve already completed my highschool and taken the final exam.
@hussainhssn yeah thanks, I kinda found eventually. But I think I can afford them!
Am I required to submit my national exam scores in the international supplement form? And how many of the schools I mentioned require those forms? I don’t think Cornell does,I don’t want to submit it because our national exams are very lopsided.</p>

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<p>Bump please anyone else…</p>

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<p>How did my thread fall to the bottom within less than an hour with no reply. BUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMPPPPPPP!!!</p>

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<p>I think you have quite a good chance, considering where your from. You clearly have had fantastic success as an individual, you care about people’s education, and helping others (as well as doing quite good yourself lol). </p>

<p>And thanks for that wonderful comment on my thread, that made my day :)</p>