<p>hi, Im an taiwanese student currently residing in China. And I am from a family who'll be needing aid from my second year of college. I'm considering applying to the following schools:
UCSD, UCLA, USC, USB, UW Seattle, UBC Canada, UT Austin, Texas A&M</p>
<p>I have:</p>
<p>G.P.A: around 3.5~3.6
Ranking: N/A</p>
<p>SATI: 1910 (530 critical reading, 800 math, 580 Writing)
1910 (530 critical reading, 700 math, 680 Writing)
* a combined SAT of 2010
SATII: Biology(M)700, Chemistry650
TOEFL(ibt): 107</p>
<p>Leadership experiences: I am the president of environmental club for two years (10th and 11th grade).
Community Service: And I am treasurer of community service club. I've been to many rural parts of China to donate solar power, lighting/electricity, computers, and utencils. I have a total of about 250 hours of community service hours.</p>
<p>AP that I've taken:
AP Biology 5, AP Chemistry 4</p>
<p>APs that I'll be taking the upcoming school year:
AP Calculus BC
AP Economics
AP Physics</p>
<p>Will I get into the schools I listed above? UT Austin, UCs, and UW? And I know that most of them don't offer international students financial aid. Which schools that I can get into (the schools gotta be in certain areas: California, Washington, Texas) with this record will offer me financial aid？Please Help! I know it's a little too much to ask..But I am running out of people to ask. Please help! Im considering my major either in business(accounting) or biochemistry/biotechnology.</p>
<p>Most colleges with financial aid for international students are in the Northeast. In your requested region, I can think of Trinity University, TX, some of the Claremont Colleges in CA and the University of Southern California. A couple of smaller less selective colleges are bound to have partial scholarships that are not advertised but awarded upon application.</p>
<p>If you need financial aid, please apply for financial aid in your first year. Most colleges will not let you apply for financial aid in your second year if you did not apply in your first year. That is, if you don’t apply for financial aid in your first year, the colleges will assume that you can pay for all 4 years and you will never give you financial aid afterwards. </p>
<p>Your grades and test scores are low for the colleges you are applying to, and too low for a university in that league to consider you for financial aid. Of course, as you noticed yourself, most universities on your list don’t have financial aid to begin with.</p>
<p>The UCs are a particularly bad choice for internationals (or any out-of-staters) needing aid. They’re very hard to get into, are very expensive, and offer little or no aid. I recommend removing them from your list. Your grades and scores, other than math and bio, are not great, so you should be looking at less selective colleges.</p>
<p>I agree with the others. Financial Aid or scholarship for undergrad international student are nearly impossible to get, especially with your scores.</p>
<p>All except one of the undergrad Taiwanese/Chinese students I know do not get any financial aid and are coming from rich families. That one is more like an exception … exceptionally smart girl with nearly perfect SAT.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would seriously consider why you want to come to the US for undergrad, unless your family has lord of money to spend (which seems not be your case). Go to a top school in China/Taiwan/Hong Kong, get some good grades, and then apply for grad school in the US. You have a much better chance of getting a scholarship then plus grad school are significantly cheaper than undergrad.</p>
<p>In terms of academic quality and student life, there are many universities in your corner of the world that’s comparable or even better than US universities. I have studied in China for a year and I like some of the universities there better. They just don’t have the reputation internationally which is not that important if you plan to go to grad school anyway</p>
<p>The UCs are not worth applying to if you need aid. You probably can’t get into the ones you list with your scores but they wouldn’t give you a cent if you did and they cost $47K/yr.</p>