Mount Holyoke College , Class of 2025 Chance me!

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I am international student from Bangladesh looking forward to applying to Mount Holyoke College.
Here’s my profile-
Academics:

  1. Gpa 5.00/5.00 (unweighted)
    FYI, We don’t have AP classes, honors classes or a chance to do IB. We have our own curriculum and less than 50 students get GPA 5 in high school out 1586 students.
  2. Rank- 30/1586
    Will go SAT optional
    We don’t have research opportunities but I did an independant research with a Biology teacher and made a research report on how cyberbullying affects mental health.

Major : Psychology ( Might design an independant concentration with neuroscience and sociology)

Honors:

  1. National merit scholarship
  2. National dance Competition champion
  3. Best Ambassador award in Givingway
  4. Outstanding Delegation in Bangladesh Model United nations 2018
  5. 500 USD in a essay writing Competition
  6. Best marketing officer award in a youth organisation I work for.

ECAs:

  1. Founder of a mental health club in high school
  2. Interned at a mental health club
  3. Vice president of high school literature Club ( Introduced French courses for the first time in school)
  4. Dancer, taught Kathak to children with special needs and mental illness in middle school and high school and performed on TV
  5. Marketing Officer at a renowned youth organisation which promotes women’s rights
    6.Country Ambassador at Givingway where I work for various missions to help disadvantaged people across Asia and Africa
  6. Interned at a South Asian college consultancy at Bangladesh founded by two Stanford students and helped students prepare their applications and essays. Hosted Live Podcasts with Bangladeshi students from various North American Colleges and Ivies. I also author blog articles in that consultancy’s website
  7. Peer Tutor- often tutored calculus and organic chemistry to my cousins and friends

I am in dire need of financial aid . I can pay upto 10k towards my education including my personal expenses. My father is retired and he can pay 10 k in total that excludes my travels. I can mange my travel cost by jobs on campus.

In previous threads, I saw people asking not to do ED2 if you need a lot of aid but Mount Holyoke is one of my top choices. So should I go for Regular decision or ED?

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Hi @Aunannya20, I’m also applying this year, so my opinion is by no means a professional one. All I’ve learned is just from hours of reviewing online statistics.

MHC values diversity, and international students help them a lot in that area. You meet all of their standards as far as academics, so I wouldn’t worry there at all. Congrats on your national merit scholarship! You seem to have plenty of diverse ECA’s, so those will make you a stand-out candidate. In my opinion, it’s almost a sure thing you’re admitted! They’d be silly not to.

As far as your financial needs, I wouldn’t worry too much, MHC is very generous with need-based financial aid, and you’ll probably claim some more merit-based awards by the time you get there. I was also worried about paying for this level of education, so I went with RD, but it’s no big deal if you ended up in ED. It is quite a lot of money.

Hope this helps a little bit!