<p>Hello, I am a student from Pakistan.
I will graduate from my high school next year. I have an SAT score of 1810. 540 reading, 650 math, 620 writing. Going to retake SAT 1 in Nov and it will be way much better. My SAT 2 went pretty well. I got 770 in Chemistry and perfect in Physics and Biology. I have a lot of social working experience. I worked with kids with mental impairments and counseled their parents, drug addicts, and worked with people with psychological problems such as depression. I am a trained counselor for drug addicts, depressed people, mentally impaired kids and their parents. I have also been interviewed by New York times for being the best student on a test prep site. I was chosen as a representative of the site. I was the best among more than 20000 users of that website. I was the most helpful user of that site. I am also the president of Drama club in my school and have been continuously working in literary society. I am also a member of student council in my school. I was the student of the year in my school in 2009.
I am employed in a tuition center from 1 and half year where i teach O Level students and earn good money for a 17 year old boy.
I have got the best result in my O Levels in my school. 12 A grades; no one has ever achieved 12 A grades in my school. The normal number of subjects chosen by students are 6. I was honored by my school and the district commissioner for getting this result and was even interviewed by a news channel. My photograph came in the newspaper along my result.
I have studied a diverse number of subjects such as Physics, Chem, bio, sociology, economics, commerce, Islamic Studies, History, Geography, Math, English Language, Urdu Language.
Now i am doing my A Level in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Mathematics.
I am still doing a lot of extra-curricular activities.
I wanted to know with this academic record what are my chances to get into a good university. Please suggest me some good universities where i can get easily. I want to do some science major.
Keep in my mind that i belong from a poor background. There is no counseling available here; no opportunities for Extra-Curricular; all of my activities are self made and achieved by my own.
Thanks for your time.</p>
<p>Do you need financial aid?</p>
<p>yes i would…</p>
<p>Then it’s not a good idea to be applying to a U.S. school. The only colleges that will meet all the need-based aid for Internationals are HYP, and you don’t have much chance at those schools. Moving downwards across the tiers will just mean that you won’t be able to find any schools that can give you enough money.</p>
<p>Is it SAT where I lack?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>But more importantly, you are an international applicant, so you will be competing with all of the students from Pakistan who intend on applying to U.S. schools. That makes it very, very difficult for you to get accepted to a good university.</p>