Is there any hope?

Daniel323
Sun, 03 Feb 2013 02:00:54 +0000

Hello everyone,

My name is Daniel, I am a 20 year old student, US citizen, currently living in Uruguay and born in Colombia. I have studied psychology for 2 years in Uruguay at the UCU (Universidad Catolica del Uruguay), yet I have found the education there to be lackluster and uninteresting for me, therefore, I am considering the possibility of moving to Florida, but my main concern is the incredibly harsh competition for undergraduate admissions and the possibility of losing two years of my study and end up being rejected everywhere.

My GPA isn’t calculated (haven t found a way to calculate my GPA reliably yet) but as far as I ve seen from researching how GPAs are calculated, I would assume it’s probably somewhere around 3, and have graduated on the top 20-30% of my generation.(Yes, I know, not very impressive, I was never the best student I could possibly be, but I wasn’t horribly bad either.) I believe that with my skills I wouldn’t have trouble with the TOEFL, and I could possibly get a 1800 SAT(hopefully more) In college, my grade average is 4.6/6 (they grade on a scale of 6 over there) again, good, but not incredible. My teachers have always viewed me as a critical thinker, someone who is passionate about research and overcoming my own limits. For extracurriculars, I have gone to acting classes since I was 14(Both in Colombia and Uruguay) worked on a circus project (Colombia) play drums for 4 years and guitar for 1 (still going at it) and have done at least 300 hours of community service (both in Colombia and Uruguay combined) I also speak 3 languages, English, French (attended the Liceo Francés in Colombia for a long time, but didn’t finish, still I can defend myself in places like Canada without any trouble) and of course Spanish.

I have looked at many universities, and I would love getting into somewhere like UFL, although I know it is insanely hard and possibly not a realistic expectation, I’ve also had interest on other places like FSU, UCF, UNF, USF… but I don t know if I could stand any chance.

I have also weighted the possibilities of getting to a Community College, so far, places like Santa Fe CC, Palm Beach CC and Broward CC seem like good options. But is there an actual chance I could transfer to any of those universities from any of those CCs? Would I stand any chance of getting into any of those before mentioned universities without having to go to a CC? What course of action should I take? Or should I just remain in Uruguay and try to do a Masters over there after I’m done with my degree? Are there any recommendations you could give me?

A million thank-yous in advance, my mind has been going over this issue again and again, and I am sincerely scared to fail.

With all my regards,

Daniel.