Congratulations on all the many things you’ve done in high school. Did you speak English before coming to the U.S.? If not, I would definitely mention that in your apps.
Below are some schools that your family might want to run the Net Price Calculator on. There were four that I’ve identified as being particularly financially generous, but all the schools listed below are more generous than average.
Extremely Likely (80-99+%)
Likely (60-79%)
Toss-Up (40-59%)
- St. Olaf (MN): About 3k undergrads, in the same town as Carleton and students can take classes at the other college
Lower Probability (20-39%)
- Colorado College: About 2200 undergrads
- Davidson (NC): About 1900 undergrads
- Vassar (NY): About 2500 undergrads
Low Probability (less than 20%)
- Bowdoin (ME): About 1900 undergrads…among the more financially generous
- Carleton (MN): About 2100 undergrads, in the same town as St. Olaf and students can take classes at the other school
- Colby (ME): About 2300 undergrads…appears particularly financially generous
- Grinnell (IA): About 1800 undergrads
- Hamilton (NY): About 2100 undergrads
- Middlebury (VT): About 2800 undergrads
- Washington & Lee (VA): About 1900 undergrads…extremely financially generous
- Wesleyan (CT): About 3400 undergrads…among the more financially generous