Please chance me - it'd be much appreciated :)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Korean Citizen / Permanent Resident in Canada
Female
Going into grade 12
Highest ranked high school in province
Will apply for financial aid</p>

<p>Grade 9 (Junior High)
- Average: ~95%</p>

<p>Grade 10 (Pre-IB)
- English IB
- Math IB
- Science IB
- Chem/Bio IB - Highest mark in Bio
- Social IB
- Instrumental Music (oboe)
- French IB
- Average: 92% (~10/100?)</p>

<p>Grade 11 (Partial IB)
- English Reg.
- Math IB
- Physics IB
- Bio IB
- Chem IB
- Computers (for CompTIA A+ Cert.)
- Social IB
- French IB
- Average: 93.4% (~10/100)</p>

<p>Grade 12 (Partial IB) Courseload
- English Reg.
- Math IB
- Physics IB
- Bio IB
- Chem IB
- Computers (for CompTIA Network+ Cert.)
- Social Reg.
- French IB (maybe)
- Expected Average: 94~95%?</p>

<p>SAT I: 1900 (M 750; W & R in the 500's)
- Planning to take it again in October
SAT II: Chem, Physics, Math II (November)</p>

<p>Extracurricular/Awards:
- Various honour bands - 9
- Citizenship Award - 9
- Northern Alberta Brain Injury Society - 10, 11 (VP Finance)
- Volunteering at a local hospital - 11
- Summer Health Internship - 11
- 3-month Research Program - 11
- Science Olympics - 10 (! gold, 1 bronze)
- Korean Scholarship - 11
- Various Math Competitions - 9 (1st place in Canada), 10, 11 (usually top 25%)
- Science Competitions - 10, 11
- Korean Language Club - 11
- Curling Team - 9
- SU Class Rep Alternate - 11
- Honours with Distinction - 9, 10, 11</p>

<p>I'm interested in Sciences (especially chem), Engineering, and Psychology</p>

<p>Colleges:
- UC Berkeley
- Carnegie Mellon
- Northwestern
- MIT
- CalTech
- Johns Hopkins
- HYP
- UPenn
- Duke</p>

<p>If you can suggest any other colleges that match my specs/interests, that'd be great. Thanks in advance :)</p>

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<p>All of the schools you listed above is high reaches.</p>

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<p>As RealM said, they are all high reaches. To me, it seems as if you have done your search based solely on prestige. If I am wrong, please correct me.</p>

<p>I would advise you to look at some smaller universities as well as LACs. Pick up a copy of Colleges That Change Lives at your local library and peruse through it and see if any of the colleges pique your interest.</p>

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<p>UCLA maybe?</p>

<p>which province?also which math contests....</p>

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<p>I also suggest you look into private universities rather than public ones if you are an International students. As AirUpThere also mentioned, LACs are good if you need a financial aid.</p>

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<p>hmm okay :P well for the universities, i just went on theu.com, searched the fields that i am interested in and just pulled a list of "top colleges" in that field. So AirUpThere, yeah you're right lol</p>

<p>I'm in Alberta and I just did all the math contests that U of Waterloo offered such as Pascal (gr. 9), Cayley (10), Euclid, etc.</p>

<p>Past graduates of my school who went to the American colleges had a little presentation about the colleges they're at and made it sound like it's possible but.. it sounds like i'll be better off staying in Canada :P haha </p>

<p>Thanks to everyone who replied :)</p>