International Chance?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<p>Hi, I am a Canadian student looking to get into biology or biomedical engineering...</p>

<p>GPA/Ranking: School doesn't have GPA nor Ranking.
In Canadian standard, all A's. Had 94.8% average in Grade 11
Doing IB diploma, finished IB SL Bio and IB SL Math (7 in both)
Grade 11 courses:
IB Chemistry 11 - 95%
IB English 11 - 90%
IB Geography 11 - 94%
IB Biology 12(SL) - 94%
IB Math 12(SL) -98%
AB Japanese 11 - 98%
Tok
Summer School Physics 11 - 100%</p>

<p>Grade 12 courses:
IB English (HL)
IB Geography (HL)
IB Chemistry (HL)
AB Japanese
IB Physics (SL)
Senior Jazz Band
TOK</p>

<p>SAT I: Math 800, Reading 690, Writing 720 = 2210
I haven't really studied for SATs, I will retkae in December.
SAT II: Korean 800, Math IIC 800, (will take Bio..expecting 700+).</p>

<p>EC: I will just put what I will put in the commonapp. </p>

<p>Grade 11,12: Established and led International Group for my community to help recent international or immigrant students adjust to the new life..I was in a local Korean newspaper and featured as one of the future prospective students. (5 hrs/week)
Grade 8 - 12: Part of CCM band at my church, played main bass guitar and synthesizer. Also led children's Sunday programs. (3 hrs/week)
Grade 8 - 11: Club soccer. In grade 9 - 10, I was in the most competitive regional team (metro team) (6 hrs/week), then dropped to a low level (3.5 hrs/week), couldn't handle the workload.
Grade 9-11: varsity tennis, played some club tennis as well.. ranked 100 something in the province... (6 hrs/week).
Duke of Edinburgh: Gold Award Qualification.
Grade 9-10: Volunteered with Canadian Blood Services...over 150 hours volunteer
Grade 11: Peer helper, Environmental Protection Agency Secreatary</p>

<p>Work experience:
Grade 11 Summer: Summer intern for a local church: Did office works like accounting, led Sunday programs for children, carried out projects like interviweing people and posting their stories on website, (35 hours/week).</p>

<p>Grade 8 - 11 Worked as a janitor for a maintenance company: (3hrs/week)</p>

<p>Grade 11 summer: Tutoring: tennis, English, ESL (7 hrs/week)</p>

<p>Awards
Grade 8 -11: Honor roll with distinction, Certificate of distinction from Math contests (top 25%)
Grade 8: Scholar athlete, multiple sports award, English and Social subject awards, placed 12th overall in regional math contest, 36th in provincial...part of math team finishing 3rd in regionals
Grade 9: Business10 Subject Award, Math 10 subject award</p>

<p>Also, I heard that Michigan usually rejects any international applicants who apply for financial aid. Is that true?
And how much does it cost for International student to attend Michigan?
(I heard different amounts.. some said $38000, others $47000... etc..) </p>

<p>Thx in advance.</p>

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<p>Your chances are pretty good it seems..but you have to include your 10th grade grades too. International students I believe tuition the same as Out of state students..which is about 38,000. I dont know about michigan rejecting international students applying for finaid, but I know you pretty much won't get anything from them..so dont count on that.</p>

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<p>ahh. Ok.
my Grade 10 marks are by the way...:
Biology 11 IB - 93%
Mathematics 11 IB - 98%
Social Studies Enriched - 95%
Science 10 - 95%
English Enriched - 90%
Physical Education - 97%
Career Planning - 96%
Senior Jazz Band - 93%</p>

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<p>You can definitely get in. Tuition is same as OOS , around 34/35000. Although tuition is rising every year. </p>

<p>And yes most international applicants for financial aid , get shot down. They even mention it on the website , that being of intl student status will most prob result in you not getting financial aid , but they give out loans of some sort.</p>

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<p>Your standardized testing results are phenomenal. You have a decent shot at all top colleges in the US( Harvard, Yale , Princeton ). Those colleges have very generous financial aid programs for international students. Princeton has a policy: If you get in, you get to go. I believe all Princeton grads do not have a cent of debt upon graduation. Michigan, on the other hand, will not give a cent in financial aid to international students. Private schools don't care about your nationality.</p>

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<p>Yeah i agree with that. HYP are generous with their financial aid to international students and are also need blind.</p>

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<p>Thx for the replies, but I think I will be at a huge disadvantage since I am Asian at Ivies. Maybe I should research more in to Liberal Arts programs.</p>