Chance me: 4.0 IB student from Indiana [1450 SAT, biology or biochemistry, <$30k]

Congrats on your academic record! You are a qualified applicant for any of these schools on an academic basis. Even so, many of them are still reaches due to their low admit rates unless you are “hooked” in some way (legacy, recruited athlete, child of faculty member, big donor etc.)

A bigger issue may be getting these to cost. Unless you have some special circumstance (such as a parent who is a legal resident of those states), I don’t see UC Davis or UW ever getting down to your $30K budget. Likewise for the Canadian schools, unless you are a dual citizen. For the private schools, have you and your family run the Net Price Calculators (NPCs) available on each schools website to see if they are affordable?

An in-state school as terrific as Purdue sets a very high bar, both for academics and for affordability.

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