krnspadez

Hello everyone, and before I write my bio, I'd like to thank those who will reply to this thread.

Ok. Let's start with a bit about me.
I'm Korean, American Citizen, and my school's got 30% of us, so I'm not really a minority.
Unfortunately, the stereotype of all Asians being smart does apply to my school, but not to me. (Ranked #2 in the state. Our school that is.)

Although this may sound completely random, I spent my entire childhood in Mexico, giving me a huge distance to cover once I came to the US in 8th grade.
The gap between US's education and that of Mexico's was too wide.
So I just became angry with my situation and gave up on life (puberty 9_9)

Therefore, my freshman and sophomore grades weren't great.
However, I became motivated in Junior year, and still live with that motivation.
So here's my bio:

Freshman GPA: 3.0955
Sophomore GPA: 3.098
Junior GPA: 3.6985

SAT (Best):
Reading: 550
Math: 740
Writing: 670
Total: 1960

SAT 2:
Spanish 800
Math 2C 710

Community Service
-Translator in church 4 years (Freshman to Senior) [1500 hours]
-Stage staff at Korean Thanksgiving festival 2 years. [50 hours]
-Spanish Tutor for children - 1 year [15 hours]

Clubs
-Sierra Student Coalition ([Treasurer] Environmental Awareness Club) 10th, 11th, 12th
-Career Path Club (Co-Treasurer) 11th, 12th
-Japanese Cultural Club (VP) 12th

Sports
Spring and Winter track (Soph~Senior)

Senior Courses
Am Hist 2
Info Processing
AP Spanish 5 Honors
Psych and Literature
Accounting 2
Calculus
Physics
Phys Education

I know you don't see translator under community service everyday, so I'll explain.
My church has Korean, English, and Spanish speakers. Unfortunately, the pastor can only speak Korean, so I'm given a booth in the back corner of the church, and I speak into a microphone whatever the pastor says, but in Spanish. Then, whatever I speak into the microphone gets sent to radio-like receivers and they hear the translation. I don't know if this was a good explanation, but hope it cleared SOME stuff up.

And just so you guys know, yes, I do have more than 1500 hours of community service.
Is that a huge plus?

Yeah. My classes aren't too great. I tried going to AB Calc, but I couldn't make that A+, and the only AP I have is Spanish.

And if you notice, my GPA is constantly growing, especially in Junior year.
My senior year, this is what I expect to see on my report card

Am Hist 2 = B- or B
Info Processing = A+
AP Spanish 5 Honors = A range
Psych and Literature = B range
Accounting 2 - A or A+
Calculus - A or A+
Physics - A or A+
Phys Education - A+

Overall, I'm an improving guy, who just wants a second chance.
I LOVE the idea of co-ops, and when I went to visit, the tour guide said that speaking a foreign language was required for you to go to a overseas co-op.
I wanna do that so badly, and NEU became my first choice.

So chance me please! Thank you!!

RedSox2007

I think you're a really unique candidate. As long as you can portray the info about being Korean in Mexico and coming to the US, the admissions board might like that.

impervious0ne

Northeastern is your safety-target school. They will be very impressed by your junior grade as well as your trend (0.6 jump is unheard of for lot of people) and they recalculate the gpa of their own. They utilize a 5.0 scale (5 for ap/ib/ceeb and 4.5 for honors) and your SAT scores are in the middle 50%. Apply EA and retake the SAT's and submit it before the Dec 15th' notification and you will PROBABLy get in. I'd say 80%