Type of high school: Private school, uses different curriculum
**Cost Constraints / Budget: 15k
Intended Major(s): Economics
College GPA: 5/5; unweighted
Class Rank: Top 1% throughout class 9-12
ACT/SAT Scores: 1450
**Awards: 2 international writing award (Only one from my country to get into the final), 1 international research award, 2 national-level olympiad award, and 1 national merit award for my board exam scores
Extracurriculars
Internship, tutor, blog writer, independent researcher, volunteer, student gov, researcher, etc.
Essays/LORs/Other
I feel like my essay is unique and tells a lot about a unique moment that happened in my life. Also, my lors are strong.
Bryn Mawr’s acceptance rate for international students is around 13%. They are a “need sensitive” school so the fact that you need a lot of financial aid will work against you. You shouldn’t ED to any school without first checking the NPC with your parents to see if it is feasible to get the amount of aid you are looking for. Unfortunately, a lot of times the NPCs are not accurate for international applicants.
So yes, you have a chance, but it is a long shot. And you need to determine if it’s affordable before applying ED. Nothing worse than getting an acceptance to find out you can’t afford it.
No to ED because you don’t know what they’ll say you need and make sure you apply to need blind schools, not need aware or sensitive. But for any school, they decide what you can afford. You don’t get to determine that. Good luck.
Amherst
Bowdoin
Brown
Dartmouth
Harvard
MIT
Notre Dame - although I don’t think they promise to meet need for intl