Thanks for the replies guys. I checked out all the colleges you guys mentioned and I’m loving st Lawrence university. It has an aid plus merit scholarship program for internationals that even my school counselors didn’t know about. Vassar and Haverford seem great too.
@happymomof1 the school team didn’t know anything about life or campuses at the colleges they make students apply to. When I asked them about the weather, the main counselor laughed and said “everywhere in US is colder than here. Don’t worry about it.” They are more focused on college prestige since it automatically improves the school’s reputation. Whereas I want to attend college to have fun and explore my fields of passion; computer science and creative writing.
Regarding stats, I follow the international O/Alevel curriculum and have straight A’s so far. Will appear for SAT this fall, but have gotten 1500+ so far on practice tests. Not sure if that’s a good indicator of prospective scores.
ECs are limited but unique, spanning the fields I’m passionate about; regular blogger about country’s social problems, editor of school newspaper, currently writing a novel, literature club president and founder for 3 years, tutoring class fellows for months, running a campaign to save birds for a year, internship with WWF (not the wrestling one) and other social work internships relating to animals (I love animals) and some other ECs. Awards include an international writing competition’s honorary award , an excellence award in national writing competition, a national high achievers excellence award from USEFP, some film making competitions, multiple school debates and speech competitions winner. No hooks at all. Essays would probably be good, since I’m a very deep writer often putting all of my feelings into my writings.
So I think I might have a 50/50 chance at a few of these colleges you guys mentioned, especially the less known ones.
Anyways, I’ll keep you guys updated once the college applications start. This thread is really going to help me out later, so thanks again guys. Hopefully a future member of the US college class of 2023.