VERY Early Chance Me As A International Student Requiring Full FA (can you tell im anxious)

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Not very detailed but here’s me!
Demographic: First gen canadian + female applying for 11th grade 2026-2027. currently go to a plain old catholic school with not a ton of funding, got into an IB school for next year though so ill be completing some 11th grade classes in 10th
Languages: Fully fluent in french + english
Sports: Wrestling and cheerleading
Cubs: Debate, Mock Trial, STEAM, French, Equity Interact (finding ways to help the community)
Volunteering: Tons of running events, junior coach for middle school wrestling, cleaning my park, tutor math, volunteering at a math camp for younger kids this summer
Extra ECs: Violin since i was 5 (can no longer afford lessons so ive been teaching myself for the last couple of years), piano since I was 6, lifeguarding, patriot for my current school (in charge of a 7th grade class throughout the year and talk to the 6th graders at our feeder skls)
Grades: All 90s and above except for gym (82 this year, 78 last year)… unfortunately dodgeball is not my forte. 96 in math last year, projected 98 this year.
FA + Money in general: Live with a single dad, mom went byebye in 5th grade so there’s basically no way i can pay the tuition. can’t get as many opportunities to beef up app too so im trying to find as many as I can that wont cost an absolute fortune
SSAT: Practice test went great only got 1 math question wrong and did stellar on qualitative. Aiming for 98th percentile if i use the SSAT resources enough
EXTRA!!!: Gifted kid, passion for biomedical engineering, chosen to go to local university program to take courses for the last 2 years (genomes + biomedical engineering)

Thank you so much for reading this, constructive criticism of any and all kind is very much welcome!

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You sound like a great candidate, but make sure you cast a wide net. Take your shot. If it doesn’t work out, in two years you will be a great candidate for colleges. You also might be better off applying as a repeat 10th grader.

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Thank you so much! I made a little database with just under 20 schools to apply to GLADCHEMMS isnt a sure thing unfortunately, very excited to see how everything works out though!

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Have you considered Wyoming Seminary?

Wrestling is a huge sport there, and they’re probably more likely to give financial aid to a wrestling athlete than most other schools.

Also, they’re located in Pennsylvania despite the name.

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Oooo, thank you for the suggestion! I’ll definitely look into them!

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I’m not familiar with their girls wrestling, but it is on par with their boys, we’re talking D1 recruiting out of high school. This year, they had Cornell, Navyx2, UNC, Lehigh, Penn State, and Pitt. All ranked in the top 50 nationally, many in the top ten in their weight class. I feel like at least one a year goes to Navy.

Flo Wrestling has both the girls and boys teams ranked as #1 and it looks like they have individual girls ranked at 6, 9 and 15. A '22 grad competed in the '24 Olympics.

If you really want to take your wrestling to the next level and think perhaps you want to wrestle in college, this is definitely a school that should be on your list. A lot of places are trying to build their girls wrestling programs right now.

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George School (also PA) has girl wrestlers. (Must be a PA thing!) And IB. So could be worth a look as well.

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Putting this on my list! Thank you so much for the suggestion!