Please chance me - it'd be much appreciated :)

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Korean Citizen / Permanent Resident in Canada
Female
Going into grade 12
Highest ranked high school in province
Will apply for financial aid</p>

<p>Grade 9 (Junior High)

  • Average: ~95%</p>

<p>Grade 10 (Pre-IB)

  • English IB
  • Math IB
  • Science IB
  • Chem/Bio IB - Highest mark in Bio
  • Social IB
  • Instrumental Music (oboe)
  • French IB
  • Average: 92% (~10/100?)</p>

<p>Grade 11 (Partial IB)

  • English Reg.
  • Math IB
  • Physics IB
  • Bio IB
  • Chem IB
  • Computers (for CompTIA A+ Cert.)
  • Social IB
  • French IB
  • Average: 93.4% (~10/100)</p>

<p>Grade 12 (Partial IB) Courseload

  • English Reg.
  • Math IB
  • Physics IB
  • Bio IB
  • Chem IB
  • Computers (for CompTIA Network+ Cert.)
  • Social Reg.
  • French IB (maybe)
  • Expected Average: 94~95%?</p>

<p>SAT I: 1900 (M 750; W & R in the 500’s)

  • Planning to take it again in October
    SAT II: Chem, Physics, Math II (November)</p>

<p>Extracurricular/Awards:

  • Various honour bands - 9
  • Citizenship Award - 9
  • Northern Alberta Brain Injury Society - 10, 11 (VP Finance)
  • Volunteering at a local hospital - 11
  • Summer Health Internship - 11
  • 3-month Research Program - 11
  • Science Olympics - 10 (! gold, 1 bronze)
  • Korean Scholarship - 11
  • Various Math Competitions - 9 (1st place in Canada), 10, 11 (usually top 25%)
  • Science Competitions - 10, 11
  • Korean Language Club - 11
  • Curling Team - 9
  • SU Class Rep Alternate - 11
  • Honours with Distinction - 9, 10, 11</p>

<p>I’m interested in Sciences (especially chem), Engineering, and Psychology</p>

<p>Colleges:

  • UC Berkeley
  • Carnegie Mellon
  • Northwestern
  • MIT
  • CalTech
  • Johns Hopkins
  • HYP
  • UPenn
  • Duke</p>

<p>If you can suggest any other colleges that match my specs/interests, that’d be great. Thanks in advance :)</p>

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<p>All of the schools you listed above is high reaches.</p>

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<p>As RealM said, they are all high reaches. To me, it seems as if you have done your search based solely on prestige. If I am wrong, please correct me.</p>

<p>I would advise you to look at some smaller universities as well as LACs. Pick up a copy of Colleges That Change Lives at your local library and peruse through it and see if any of the colleges pique your interest.</p>

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<p>UCLA maybe?</p>

<p>which province?also which math contests…</p>

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<p>I also suggest you look into private universities rather than public ones if you are an International students. As AirUpThere also mentioned, LACs are good if you need a financial aid.</p>

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<p>hmm okay :stuck_out_tongue: well for the universities, i just went on theu.com, searched the fields that i am interested in and just pulled a list of “top colleges” in that field. So AirUpThere, yeah you’re right lol</p>

<p>I’m in Alberta and I just did all the math contests that U of Waterloo offered such as Pascal (gr. 9), Cayley (10), Euclid, etc.</p>

<p>Past graduates of my school who went to the American colleges had a little presentation about the colleges they’re at and made it sound like it’s possible but… it sounds like i’ll be better off staying in Canada :stuck_out_tongue: haha </p>

<p>Thanks to everyone who replied :)</p>