College Advice?

College Search & Selection
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I’m a senior this year, and would really appreciate your input on some college suggestions and advises.
These are my stats:
SAT I: 1490 superscore (700 R&W, 790M), two tries.
SAT II: Math II (800), Chem (780).
GPA: UW (3.92), W(idk).
Rank: Something around 155/850 (wait! I can explain, my courses from Argentina when I transferred to the States at the end of my sophomore year were interpreted as pretty basic and had little weight).
AP’s: Bio (4), Chem (4), Spanish Lang(5).
AICE’s: Math (B), Business ©, General Paper (B), US History (D) (I know, I really blew it, but still passing though).
IGCSE’s: Math (A), Physics (A), Spanish Lang ©, English Lang (A), English Lit (B), Chem (A).
Senior Year Courseload: AP MIcro, AP Macro, AP Eng Lang, AP US Gov, AP Comp Gov, AP Calc BC, AP Physics 2, AP Physics C (E&M), AP Stats, AICE Global Perspectives (need it for my AICE Diploma).
Major Awards: AP Scholar, National Honor Hispanic (1400 PSAT), and won the engineering/science scholarship in my school in Argentina).

EC’s:
UN Model Contestant: 9th and 10th grade.
Band: 9th grade (played the cello)
Math Olympian Contestant: 9th and 10th grade.
DECCA Contestant: 11th grade (business competition and club).
Math Honors Society Member: 11th and 12th grade.
Spanish Honors Society Member: 11th and 12th grade.
Science Honors Society: 12th grade.
Founded and run my own club to help new students in the school meet people and get to know the American education system (GPAs and SATs are very new for foreigners).

Volunteering:
~50 hours in a soup kitchen.
~25 hours in American Red Cross.
~20 hours tutoring math at my school.
~10 hours in others.
Total: ~100 hours. (I know it’s low, but had to do them all during junior year).

Wow! That’s about it (I think), let me know if I missed something, and where you think I should apply to (interested in Biomedical Engineering major), I’m really lost though, so any help is appreciated!

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  1. What is your college budget/year?
  2. Home state?
  3. Are you an International applicant or Domestic?
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  1. Budget is pretty flexible.
  2. Florida.
  3. I’m international.
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  1. Budget is pretty flexible.
  2. Florida.
  3. I’m international.
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Budget is pretty flexible - does that mean your parents will pay 70,000 per year no problem? (That’s what the most expensive places cost!) Or that you haven’t a discussion with your family about how much you can and want to spend?

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Ok, I would say budget would vary depending on where I go, it depends on the school, my parents would pay about whatever an ivy asks, for example. But we wouldn’t spend 50k+ just on any school. So it isn’t like there’s a fixed cap on tuition.

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Ok. So, you don’t seem to have a lot of restrictions on where you can look. You’re not getting in-state anywhere, so just start with figure out what you want besides your engineering major – location (distance from home, urban/rural, etc), school size, weather, extracurricular activities, etc.

Find schools with those attributes and pick some at different levels of selectivity so you wind up with reach, match, and safety schools.

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Great thanks for the feedback, I will look more into it!