Help me make a decision. Should I apply for Arts & Science or Arch school??

joonghoonkim
Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:13:41 +0000

I will give you a quick info of myself.

International (Korean), lived in US with legal guardians for about 3 and half years.

10/88 in a Christian private school
3.88 UW 4.13 W GPA
ACT 29 (E32,M32,R26,S27), retaking December
SAT Korean 750
Math 2 760
US History 680

School didn’t have AP, only College credit courses. I took all the college credit courses.

3 years Varsity Soccer (9,10,11)
3 years Musical Theater (Lead 2 years) - invited to perform at Disney World from the stage director (10,11,12)
Student Gov Officer (10th) Class President (11th, 12th)
Chief Justice (second highest position) at TN Boys State (11)
Gov School for International Studies participant (11)
Tennessee Regional Honors Choir - Bass 1 (12th)
Tennessee Regional Math Contest - 11th in PreCal (11)
Leadership University Graduate (11th) - a year long county wide program teaching various information
Art - Second in drawing at school’s art exhibition. (11)

140 hours of volunteer in five different organizations. (10,11,12)

My problem is that I have taken art only one year…
But I am independently working on my artworks, and the drawing I received award on was independently done. My Art teacher will write a recommendation letter explaining that I have talents at art.

I have ALWAYS loved art, but I never really pursued it bc of time constraint, and I never considered it for my career before… Now I would like to go to architecture school.
But, I am still afraid since I haven’t taken much art course at school and haven’t really done extracurricular related to architecture or artsy sides.

And, Rice picks 25 students a year and Cornell picks about 100 students. I am pretty sure those numbers are similar at other schools also.

Do you think I should apply for Arts & Science and pick random major or apply to architecture school with these stuffs?

I am applying to a bunch of schools… even ones without arch program
: UCB, UCLA, Cornell, Rice, Columbia, Tulane, USC, VTech, UMichigan, Miami, Brown, WashU, and so on.