Chance an international student (junior)

nothingbook
Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:26:28 +0000

I’m an international student who goes to one of the international schools outside of states
Currently a junior, but I started to get a little worried about college…
Reading all the marvelous achievements that all the fellow CC members do,
especially fellow international students I felt very inferior and unprepared
so… I decided to ask for you guys’ words.

GPA (we do percentile)
9th: 93.9
10th: 94.5
11th: (1st semester only) 94

courses (this year)
AP Biology
AP Chemistry
AP Psycholoy
Pre Cal
Physics
Advanced Band
Lit
Writing

Extracurricular Activities (assuming my next year activity, too)
Varsity Soccer (4 years) - possibly cocaptain
Varsity Volleyball (2 years)
Community Service Committee (3 years) - Vice president this year, probably an advisor or pres next year
UNICEF (2 years)
NHS (2 years) - Vice president this year
Jazz Band (3 years)
Orchestra (1 year)
Physics Club (2 years)

SAT’s
SAT Reasoning Test- I didn’t take it yet, but from the practice tests I’ve taken, my scores suck. I barely get 2100 when lucky.
SAT II:
Chem 800
IIC Math 800
Planning to take physics or bio this coming may

Outside School activities:
Comm Service:
-Teaching handicapped students (with hearing problems) how to play instruments
-Organizing birthday parties for ppl who live alone
-Habitat

My essential, dreamy, most wishing university to attend is Stanford.
Others include: the UC schools, NYU, Northwestern, CMU, and UNC
I’ve attended stanford EPGY summer course once. That’s it.
As you can see, I have no special awards to elaborate
Do I even have hope here?

and I’m not sure if this would make a difference, but I do have legacy