<p>You could consider retaking the sat once, though its not the deciding factor.</p>
<p>Coming to the financial aid : you must apply to all the need blind colleges - theres just a handful for internationals - amherst, harvard, yale , princeton, dartmouth.</p>
<p>then are the colleges that are need aware, but offer aid to internationals… these include other ivies like brown, cornell, penn, columbia and almost all top 20 univs. (emory, vanderbilt, notre dame, NU, etc.)
getting into these colleges is very difficult because they can be horribly need aware.</p>
<p>Then come the colleges which dont offer need based aid to internationals but offer merit based scholarships…
these are generally ranked lower than other top univs, but you could consider them nonetheless.
Eg: BU, Bentley, American university, … its a long list</p>
<p>Hope this helped. Feel free to pm me if you have any questions.</p>