<p>I am not a Canadian citizen</p>
<p>Schools I am looking at:</p>
<p>University of Victoria
Simon Fraser University
University of New Brunswick
University of Western Ontario
University of Alberta
Dalhouise University</p>
<p>Recommend me any other schools you think I could get into please.</p>
<p>I barely passed high school. However, I have some strong points and extracurricular that I think are worth noting.</p>
<p>I am a book nerd and read a lot. A lot. I’ve read everything from Homer’s Odyssey to Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, to Marquez One Hundred Years of Solitude. And of course everywhere in between. So I have a broad range of knowledge about all kinds of literature from all over the world from a lot of time periods.</p>
<p>I lift weights and am on the verge of becoming a personal trainer. I use to be anorexic until one day I had enough and just decided to get stronger. I went from 6’0" 109lbs to 180lbs. Along the way I learned a lot about exercise technique, anatomy and physiology, nutrition, and just everything needed to help others that are in the position I was in out. And I would really like to do this as well.</p>
<p>In addition to reading, I also like linguistics and languages. I currently study french and russian and I want to expand and also learn mandarin, and spanish. One of my motivations for going to school in Canada is because I would like to live and even work in Quebec during my summers to become completely fluent in my french.</p>
<p>In a few months I will be backpacking. I am heading to England where I will backpack through England, Scotland, Isle of Man, and Ireland for a few months. I am very exciting and I assume admissions officers like these things? I expect it to really broaden my cultural understandings.</p>
<p>I write a lot. I have a collection of short stories and poems. They’re not very good but they’re not suppose to be. I do it because I enjoy it and because I want to become a good writer. I intend to major in English and a science.</p>
<p>I worked at an optometry clinic for a year. I have knowledge of all the duties in an optometry clinic. I can take Visual Field scans, administer eye drops, do autorefractions, and have a good biological and physical understanding everything going on.</p>
<p>I have some community service things I can put down as well I did my last year of highschool I can write about.</p>
<p>And I am sure there are a few more things I can’t think of right now. Also I am currently attending a community college where my grades go up every semester. First semester were C’s, this semester I am expecting B’s, and then my last semester before I transfer I will be expecting A’s. These A’s will also be gotten in the high level courses I have worked up to. Colleges like upward trends correct?</p>
<p>The reason for barely passing highschool are some deepseated psychological problems I had. I am still working through them and I don’t like to use it as a crutch. This is why my grades as of right now are still where I wouldn’t want them to be.</p>
<p>I have a 1700 SAT</p>
<p>Schools I am looking at:</p>
<p>University of Victoria
Simon Fraser University
University of New Brunswick
University of Western Ontario</p>