Match Me: South Asian National Curriculum Student looking for a great amount of Scholarship

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics
*International Student

  • State/Location of residency: Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • Type of high school Big (1500 students), Public, Title 1, Mid-competitive:
  • Gender/Race/Ethnicity Asian, Male:
  • Other special factors First generation to College:

Intended Major(s)
STEM, Specially CS or Cyber Security
GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: 5
  • Class Rank: No Ranking from the Institution
  • ACT/SAT Scores: Optional

Coursework
My Curriculum doesn’t provide AP/IB

Awards
No significant award to showcase. Carrom Champion of Inter School Indoor Game. Runner-up of School Chemistry Quiz Fest. Intern of the Year Award.
Extracurriculars
1. Did a 6 months Internship at XYZ IT which is one of the best cyber security agency of Bangladesh, working with the Detective Branch of Bangladesh Police.
2. Worked as a Cyber Security Analyst at XYZ Nonprofit Organization — Bangladesh, which is one of the best Nonprofit Organization focused on cyber awareness, cyber harassment prevention for woman.
3. Trainer of our Swimming & Cycling Club. In this period, our institution got first prize in Divisional Cycling Competition.
4. Founder of Project XYZ (A Cyber Threats Awareness Project which helps underprivileged rural school students, allow them to get clear idea about cyber security, computing and adopting new technologies as well.)
6. Lead of A Facebook based Student Community of my academic batch including 213k members
7. Advisory Board Member of XYZ Wushu Academy focused on women’s self defense.
8. Cheif Technology Officer of an EdTech Startup named XYZ.
9. Organized Cosplay Event in School
10. Working as a Local Graphics Designer

Skills

1. Cooking
2. Cleaning (I participated in so many cleaning programs of our school)
3. Coding (html, css, c and python)
4. Know 2 different languages (hindi and urdu to manage my local clients)
5. Swimming & Cycling
6. Community Management
7. Tution and Caregiving

Essays/LORs/Other
My school doesn’t provide any extra support on this. So I’ve a last option left and that is internet. I think I’m a good writer but not in English so.

Cost Constraints / Budget
Estimated Family Contribution is $15k total

Schools
Looking for recommendations on creating a balanced list including dream, reach, and safety universities. Any advice on crafting this list based on my profile? Your insights are invaluable!

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The issue with matching you, to a school in the US, is that your budget is going to affect and limit your choices.

It is very difficult for an international student to gain acceptance to a US university, especially when the major is an impacted area of study.

Additionally, it is extremely difficult to find funding to attend a US university because the costs have risen dramatically, so you would need to find a university to fully fund your costs of ~$60-$90K per year. This may or may not include travel and health care expenses. Most of a student’s funding comes from the admitting university, if they have it in their budgets. Colleges and universities have finite budgets, so, they are extremely picky about who they will fund (athlete, musician, artists, etc.)

Google “universities that meet COA for international students”.

Also, you need to find schools that are Test Optional.

(First generation to college is meant for domestic students.)

Well, this is another issue because you don’t have test scores and you wont have a Letter of Recommendation from a teacher, so the schools wont have any source of measurable data to support your preparation for the colleges.

Look for safeties in your country.

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What scale is this on? How does this compare with other students in your high school?

There is no safety school in North America for an international student with a $15k/year budget. There is no “likely” school in North America for an international student with a $15k/year budget. You will need to have safeties elsewhere, probably in your home country.

Which universities in the US we might recommend will depend on how your stats compare with other students in your school system. You would need to be quite close to being the top student in your high school to have any realistic chance to get a near full ride to university in the US.

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