hi, can you please chance me with kalamazoo?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Kalamazoo College
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<p>hi, can you please chance me with kalamazoo?
I'm an international student currently studying in Singapore</p>

<p>Achievements & activities:
- Silver Singapore Maths Olympiad
- Bronze Singapore Chemistry Olympiad
- Third Prize Shanghai Maths Cup competition
- Third Prize Singapore Media Award (a video making competition for schools)
- I'm a Executive committee member of my audio+video club (ava club)
- 2 work-attachments (1 at a marketing firm, 1 at a bank)
- some community work</p>

<p>academic
-I jz took SAT a few weeks ago but I guess i did badly (expected: CR <550, Maths 800, 650<WR<700)
-SAT2 gonna take in June (expected: Maths1 800, Maths2 750, Chem 750)
-Secondary score (O level): Maths A, Chem A, Physics A, combined humanities A, English B, Literature C
-Expected score for Alevel: Maths A, Chem A, Physics A, Economics B, English C</p>

<p>major intend to take in future: Econs/Banking</p>

<p>Family contribution: <8k</p>

<p>other schools i also intend to apply to:
dream: grinnell, middlebury, vassar, swarthmore
reach: macalester, bard, conncoll, dickinson, gettysburg, kenyon
safety: kalamazoo, hendrix, wittenberg, hampshire</p>

<p>I choose these schools because i've heard these are quite generous in terms of aid to foreign students. I'm most concerned with 2 problems: my low critical reading score and my high financial need.
so what do you think?
thanks :)</p>

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<p>In. Easily. If you were American, you’d get plenty of aid. I don’t know about aid for internationals, though.</p>

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<p>my huge amount of FA need is probably the factor that is going to kill my application :(</p>

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<p>@hbrad8002.
your financial aid is gonna affect your application a lot. i am an intl and applied this year, had similar stats to yours and also similar financial need. i was waitlisted for financial reasons - they told me that if i could find more funds they would admit me. i told them that i couldn’t and was rejected off the waitlist yesterday. i have heard the same thing happen to many other intls. so though kzoo is a great collg i don’t think it’s a good idea for aid-seeking intls to apply there.</p>

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<p>same here, i was rejected from waitlist. my fellows have to pay 18k to attend Kalamazoo, so it’s not a school for int’ students seeking huge amount of aid</p>