<p>background: Male, US perm. resid. , came to the US in 4th. Been here 'bout 7 years, currently a senior. From SUDAN (citizen of sudan), afro-asian, african-american/black ethnicity. Fluent in arabic and english, as well as a little bit of french, (mon francais est tres mouvais). </p>
<p>HS freshman yr.- xc, part cross country,community services… accepted into honors program for all honors classes, struggled.</p>
<p>H ENG. 9:76
H Research: 86
H Civics/Pa hist: 78
H Algebra advance: 83
H Earth science: 82</p>
<p>A’s in all other classes including french, etc. </p>
<p>GPA for year: 3.38
Rank 60/346</p>
<p>Sophmore: xc, community services, inducted into national honors society…</p>
<p>H Eng 10: 90
H wld Hist.: 94
H Geometry: 93
H Biology: 95</p>
<p>A’s in all other classes
GPA for year: 4.11 W, .3.9 UW
Rank for year, 7/266 … Over all rank for both years 20/266</p>
<p>Junior Year: xc, Academic sports league, envirothon, Track, cummnity services, national honors society, tutoring, job at pizza store…</p>
<p>H french 3: 95
Ap US history: 86
H algebra2: 95
H chemistry: 91
Ap Physics: 90</p>
<p>A’s in other honors electives & etc.</p>
<p>GPA for year: 4.42 W , 3.96 UW
Rank for year: 10/179 , got #1 for 2nd,3rd, & 4rth Quarter.
Rank overall: 14/179</p>
<p>Over all HS GPA is 3.9 W, UW- 3.7 </p>
<p>24 credits +3 from a college course = 27 creds. required to grad. is 26. I got 8 credit pts each year. max each year was from 8 fresman, 7soph.& 7junior. & 6 Senior yr. But i took summer courses available for honors students only to “catch up”.</p>
<p>Could’ve graduated if i had all my 4 cores…</p>
<p>Senior year courses…</p>
<p>Ap environmental Science
H trig/adv. math
AP eng lit.
Ap gov., polit.</p>
<p>xc, track, asl, nhs, student council, envirothon, community services, tutoring… job at pizza store… </p>
<p>Wasn’t all motivated by school at first but then i tried , tried hard, i started to think about college and stuff…really got motivated from visit to Morgantown, Wv in summer for 2 weeks @ my friends house (lots happened)</p>
<p>ACT: predicted 27… from sept. test
SAT II: hopefully 650 'n above… for both phys and math</p>
<p>I never ever thought about college about 3yrs ago now maybe i can… :]</p>
<p>what do you guys think… Interested in Mech. engineering, &/or business…</p>
<p>Friend told me that a college admission person told her they liked it when studends started kind of weak but tried and did well, they say it shows motivation, effort…</p>
<p>NEED advice !!!</p>