hbrad8002

hi, can you please chance me with Bard?
I'm an international student currently studying in Singapore

Achievements & activities:
- Silver Singapore Maths Olympiad
- Bronze Singapore Chemistry Olympiad
- Third Prize Shanghai -Texas Instrument Maths Cup competition
- Third Prize Singapore Media Award (a video making competition for schools)
- I'm a Executive committee member of my audio+video club (ava club)
- 2 work-attachments (1 at a marketing firm, 1 at a bank)
- some community work

academic
-Jan 1920 (CR 540, M 740, WR 640)
May 1900 (CR 510, M 770, WR 620)
-SAT2 gonna take in June (expected: Maths1 800, Maths2 750, Chem 750)
-Secondary score (O level): Maths A, Chem A, Physics A, combined humanities A, English B, Literature C
-Expected score for Alevel: Maths A, Chem A, Physics A, Economics B, English C

major intend to take in future: Econs/Banking

Family contribution: <8k

other schools i also intend to apply to:
dream: grinnell, middlebury, vassar,
reach: macalester, bates, conncoll, dickinson, gettysburg, kenyon, F&M, whitman
safety: kalamazoo, hendrix, wittenberg, hampshire

I choose these schools because i've heard these are quite generous in terms of aid to foreign students. I'm most concerned with 2 problems: my low critical reading score and my high financial need.
so what do you think?
thanks

andersonwill

Judging by your test scores and grades, I am sort of curious why you are choosing a school that is so heavily focused on writing and reading, when it appears that you are strongest in math and science. Maybe I am wrong, but a school like Bard might not be the best fit for someone like you, and there are plenty of other outstanding schools that offer great financial aid that might suit you better

hbrad8002

thank you for your advices
this means i haven't done enough research.. i don't even know which school is focused on which things
my school choices are simply based on the FA factor

cstone1492

Please, Please, Please don't base your college choice on financial aid! sure, take it into consideration, but you will be taking a huge chance. Do more research and try to find out about the feel of the school. If you do enough looking, you will be able to find schools that not only have the right programs for you but also have the aid your looking for. Applying to a school just because you heard they had good financial aid is a waste of an application fee-take it from someone who applied to schools she knew she would never attend, just because she knew they would give her a full ride--it was a huge waste of time