<p>I'm an Asian guy who lives in Africa
I go to an international school. </p>
<p>My current GPA is 3.6 (unweighted and I take IB) and my highest SAT score is 2010.
I am the vice president of my school and a NHS member. I did variety of service activities as well.
I have been swimming for 3 years too. </p>
<p>My family is not really rich and my parents are willing to provide up to $20k.
In other words, I need to get some kind of financial aid or scholarship.</p>
<p>I want to major in economics, international business, or architecture. </p>
<p>Can you guys please recommend me some universities I could apply and get these financial aids? </p>
<p>Also, could you chance me getting accepted and getting finanicial aid/scholarship to Boston University, Texas Austin, UC Berkeley, Northwestern Univeristy, University of Michigan, UCLA, Washington University in St. Louis, Carleton College?</p>
<p>Also, if I can raise up my GPA to 3.8 - 3.9 and SAT to 2150-2250, would it be possible for me to apply to universities such as Amerhest, Dartmouth, Georgetown, University of Chicago, and etc... (with financial aid/scholarship)? </p>
<p>Are you an International Applicant/US Citizen or resident of any state? If you are not a California resident, I would remove UC Berkley and UCLA from your list. Out of State and International students will get no financial aid from these schools, plus your GPA is too low to be competitive for those UC’s. </p>
<p>@Gumbymom I am an International Applicant. Thank you for your suggestion</p>
<p>@woogzmama I am studying rigorously. I believe I can make significant changes. Also, there are only two or three grades per classes since its the beginning of the year, I’m sure I can pull it up to 3.8-3.9. </p>
<p>@mnm111 Yes there are, but you see, those universities are really hard to get in… </p>
<p>Expand your list of colleges. The ones you’ve named are the very tip of the iceberg. Do some research on US colleges and identify those that would be a good fit for you but that would have merit aid money for an international student with your stats. </p>
<p>What’s your budget?
How are you calculating the 3.6, is that an approximation? Is that a strong average in your country, something that would rank you high in your school, in your region, or nationally? What’s your predicted IB score? Is your grading scale A, B, C, D, E, F, or is it A, A-, B+, B, B-, C+, C…? Is it British patterned? Do you have OLevels or ICGSE’s?
A GPA is the average of all the grades you got over the past 4 years. Weighted means that IB classes get +1 for each grade, and Honors +.5 (although schools do it in all kinds of ways), whereas unweighted means straight number of As, A-s, etc. over 4 years. </p>
<p>@EllieMom Thank you I will try to do that ASAP.</p>
<p>@Gumbymom Thank you so much </p>
<p>@MYOS1634 3.6 is what I currently have for my first quarter. In our school, 3.6 is pretty high. My predicted IB score is not available yet. Our grading scale is A,B,C,D,E,F. And according to our counselor, our GPA is unweighted. But you see, I can definitely raise my GPA up to 3.9. I am working on my SAT currently to pass +2200. </p>
<p>Hey! Can somebody also please chance me? I’m looking to apply to UC Berkeley and LA Out of State…can a few people PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE chance me? Please be brutally honest i’ll really appreciate it I’m looking to apply for biomedical engineering</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA: 3.8 ( i have 3 B’s: 1 in sophomore year (AP US) and 2 junior year (AP Bio and Honors Analysis…but i had medically extenuating circumstances junior year)</p>
<p>Courses:
9th grade-
Honors Bio (A)
Honors English (A)
Honors American Civ (A)
Honors French II (A)
Honors Algebra II (A)
Ceramics 1/Gym (A)</p>
<p>10th grade-
Honors Chem (A)
Honors Geometry (A)
AP US (B)
AP Psych (A)
Honors English (A)
Honors French III (A)</p>
<p>11th grade-
AP English (A)
AP World (A)
AP Bio (B)
Honors Physics (A)
Honors French IV (A)
Honors Analysis(precalc) (B)</p>
<p>Current classes-
AP Stat, AP English, AP Chem, AP Environmental, AP Calculus BC, ceramics 2, current issues</p>
<p>AP Scores: Bio (4), Psych (5), English (4), AP US (3), World (4)
SAT: 2270 (M: 740, CR: 760, W: 770)
SAT 2: Biology(710) Math 2(800)</p>
<p>EC’s
2nd degree black belt in karate
Started own Indian dance team
Science Fair (since 7th grade; won multiple awards and a scholarship)
Yearbook (editor for 2 years, staff member for 1)
Started UNICEF club at school
Youth Secretariat for Model UN for 2 years, president for 2, participated all 4 years
French Honors Society officer (1 year)
National Honors Society general member
Science National Honors Society general member
Rho Kappa National Honors Society general member
Currently in the midst of starting a social enterprise</p>
<p>@college4023: please don’t hijack this thread for your own purpose. Answer OP’s question and start your own thread. Hijacking is seen as very bad manners.</p>
<p>What’s your parents’ budget? Have you run the Net Price Calculators on any school?</p>
<p>If your GPA is considered quite high, make sure your counselor can quantify it, not just in relation to the school, but in relation to provincial/regional/national exams (ie., a “3.6 at our school means the candidate is likely to score in the top 10% for national board exams”)</p>
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