@lolaandgee More power to you if you consider schools with acceptance rates below 20% in regular decision where you are average and below “matches”.
that is exactly what we call ‘matches’, places where you’re average. The average scores ‘match’ mine.
@AGoodFloridian Those are all nice choices! I already applied to grinnell for their scholarship (Deadline was 1st dec).
I’m considering all of those colleges. Cornell took ALL of our students with 2100 SAT scores last year (and i mean ALL, 6 with 2100-2200 applied and they took each and every one of them) so that might be a good option for you too!
Reed is also on my list, it gives pretty hefty aid. I’m also considering Vanderbilt but its a little out of my reach 
and i dont want to overdo reach schools. I wont be applying to a lot of safeties tho, most safeties dont offer a lot of aid due to small endowments. I’ll probably head on over to europe if i get rejected so im pretty chill about it all.
“Cornell took ALL of our students with 2100 SAT scores last year (and i mean ALL, 6 with 2100-2200 applied and they took each and every one of them) so that might be a good option for you too!”
Doubt that, seriously, and “multiple Ivy acceptances with scores lower than mine”.
So back to the point, being average where the chance of acceptance is on average 1 in 5 - 6 is not a " match.".
If you don’t get accepted at Vasser in ED, the only school where you have a reasonable chance is Davidson. Bowdoin, Amherst simply are not realistic for an international applicant. Your sweet spot is a school like Lehigh.
If you’re a British student, aim high. The UK has some extremely good universities, and there’s not much point in paying a lot more for an inferior education here in the US, IMO.
Your SAT score is good but on the weaker side for elite colleges. Bowdoin is test-optional, so you have that going for you. Wesleyan is also test-optional if you have O-Level/A-Level results.
Give Brandeis a look. It’s a bit of a reach, but they promise to meet the full need of admitted international students, and it’s a liberal, fairly intellectual/nerdy school.
Yea, until recently I wouldn’t have have included Amherst in the Wesleyan, Vassar, Oberlin orbit, but It’s changed a lot in the past five or six years, and has even gotten a little political.
I only mean that they are somewhat less selective than the schools the OP mentioned in his/her first post (Wesleyan, Amherst, Carleton, Bowdoin). Note that the OP doesn’t seem to want to apply to American LACs that might be considered low matches or safeties (such as Earlham).
It’s hard to assess chances for a high need international student, though. The Common Data Sets don’t break out admit rates for them. However, some selective LACs do award very high average aid amounts to international students (> $40K/year), even though they are not need-blind for internationals. This suggests to me that they may be eager to attract more international students. I wouldn’t necessarily assume the admit rates for internationals are very much lower than the overall admit rates at some of these schools.
If someone here does have good, reliable data on international student admission rates, I’d like to see it.
I think this came up on the Wesleyan CC board and someone posted that the admission figures for internationals with need were below 10%, less than half the rate for RD as a whole. Wesleyan is need-aware for everyone.
@warblersrule Very good point. I’d definitely think about studying in the UK if it weren’t for the extremely expensive international student tuition(which even rivals, if not beats, the US). I guess doing a postgraduate there wouldn’t hurt though. There’s way more incentive into attracting postgrads internationally than undergrads.
Brandeis has been appearing more and more on my radar, I looked into it and found it to be a pretty solid school. OPs got a nice list on his plate, eh?
@warblersrule @AGoodFloridian I’d apply to the UK, but i dont meet the residency requirement for home tuition its a sad life for me. haha, yeah i do have a nice list, thanks for being positive 
A friend of mine just got into middlebury (the decisions came last night) with a 2180 and similar grades (but just slightly better than mine). Theres still hope for us after all! He didnt get full aid tho, has to pay 18ishk.
I’d like to point out that I already have offers from Warwick and St Andrews which are amaaaazing. But the international tuition and lack of a scholarship is a problem …
@lolaandgee You should realize something. The more selective the school the less merit money. I would say Warwick and Andrew fall in that category. So if you are expecting $$ you should apply to less selective college/university
I’ve already applied to the UK. I’m also waiting for my East Anglia and LSE decision.
The thing is, i dont fulfill UK’s residency requirement, so most merit scholarships are off limits. Most of the scholarships i found (which i was eligible for) were need based. If I get into LSE, these scholarships are pretty abundant.
I couldn’t find scholarships i was eligible for in less selective schools.