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<li>Class rank does help but not a lot</li>
<li>Scrap out UMich. It doesn’t give any aid. </li>
<li>YES YOU DO NEED TO SUBMIT 9th grade script but ask the colleges for help. Tell them that it’s horribly translated and ask them how to deal wit this.</li>
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<p>Your GPA and SAT are fine. But, how much can you pay per year? Can you list your EC/Awards?</p>
<p>By the way, if you earned certain scores in critical reading, it’s not really necessary to submit toefl…</p>
<p>NU says:
International applicants who complete 3 to 4 years of their secondary school curriculum in English and score 650 or above on the Critical Reading section of the SAT Reasoning Test are not required to submit a TOEFL or IELTS score.</p>