Hello folks :) This forum has helped me tremendously when we were finalizing the list of colleges for our firstborn two years ago, so I thought I will give it a try again .
Very smart, outgoing, natural born leader female, interested in majoring in chemistry or something close to. Not sure what she wants to end up doing in life, so PhD programs, Law school, Med school - they are all in the picture. Money is of a huge concern as we are a typical middle class family not qualifying for a huge financial aid.
STATS:
ACT: 35
SAT Chem - 750
SAT Spanish with listening - 800 (she is not Hispanic)
NMSF qualifying score (should find out for sure soon)
National AP Scholar (12 AP classes and tests so far)
IB Program, taking full load of most challenging classes
No major awards.
She is fluent in three languages (including English), able to converse in fourth and actively learning additional two. Language has been her passion for the last six years, eventually in her career she would like to be able to utilize her skills, but definitely does not want to be a teacher.
Her EC (besides foreign language) include violin (13 years + state youth orchestra), piano x 5, Varsity Cross Country (captain x 2 years), DECA (captain this year), Mock Trial - this is huge for her, loves this activity, has been leading her team for a while although the highest they went was second place in State, also a captain here. She has been volunteering on the Peer Court for the past three years, is school rep (or whatever they call it) this year. On schools math team . Girl scout with bronze and silver awards. Church group leader.
Past summer she was awarded a paid scholarship at the Chemistry lab of our state flagship. She loved it so much that she is going to continue to work there through the year.
Looking for schools that she can be awarded most merit money at. Looking for obscure scholarships that nobody knows about. She is going to apply to some top schools that will give us best fin aid based on need, but those schools are a lottery.
She is also Canadian , so will be applying to McGill. After college touring she really fell in love with some top liberal arts colleges.
Any more info I can provide?
Please share your thoughts/suggestions.
Will not be applying anywhere ED due to financial need.
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