International Kid - Chances?

brownboy87
Wed, 04 Aug 2010 23:25:50 +0000

Agreed fridgemagnet, I’m most afraid of how I’ll be able to distinguish myself as unique in front of the admission board. I think the service I’ve done in India and to a lesser extent, the graphic design (I’ve heard from several admissions counselors that there aren’t many applying to top colleges with backgrounds in digital arts) are all I have. I guess I’ll have to make my essays really convincing?

Yes, the only difference I think is rather than reverse culture shock going back to India, it’s coming back to the United States FROM India, which I don’t think many people have done before. But it is still in its primary stages of development, so I may find another topic I like better for that essay.

I don’t have the specifics with me or memorized, but I’ve taken a maximum of one or two blow-offs in high school. Classes other than APs in my junior year were business (elective), entrepreneurship (elective - such a cool class though), honors precalculus, modern asian perspectives (to fulfill a requirement, toughest course in that area of study), and safety & first aid (health requirement)