I am an Asian student (male) that has moved from South Korea to the states last August due to my father’s job. Currently I am almost finished with my Junior year at a public high school in Georgia. My grades at South Korea were not that good. I was at a selective high school, which grades students with relative evaluation not absolute evaluation like the US. Consequentially, my grades were translated as mostly Cs and Bs when transferring to a US high school.
My current grades over here are all As, and the SAT I took last December to check my deviation without studying for it was a 1400. I am planning to take one more in June, and looking at my practice test scores, I expect to score about 1550. Also, since my high school doesn’t provide many AP classes, I applied for Dual Enrollment for my Senior year. Using Rogerhub’s calculator for my soph/junior grades, I have an UC W/C GPA of 3.9.
I heard that US colleges are really put emphasis on ECs, so I’ll list a few of my main ones.
- Founded a ‘Marketing’ study club. We researched about marketing strategies and actually experimented them to the whole school by selling goods, launch a campaign, do surveys, etc. Made about $300 as a total, and we donated it to the school to be used for other clubs.
- Participated in a theater club. I did shows at local festivals with my club as an actor and also volunteered to teach mentally disordered children about acting and supporting them to make their own play (They got a chance to perform at a local stage! )
- Started a program called “Talkmate”. Our school was extremely competitive, so there were many students that showed initial symptoms of depression or were actually suffering from it. It was a program that I started personally, which I counselled my peers that had different problems they had in school or family. I’m not sure if this is considered as a “result”, but I got 4 people to cut off antidepressants. Even though I moved to the states, I am still counseling a few that still need help.
- Was a student government representative. Too long to explain what we did.
- (Now at the US) Founded a ‘App development’ club. We are currently preparing to make a utility app for Android phones. Planning to put it in the ‘Play Store’ before summer break ends. Long story short, it focuses on teen depression.
I didn’t include any athletic clubs and some other minor things that I have done, but these are the things that I am most proud of myself until now. If it is too weak, please tell me what I am lacking and please give me suggestions to raise my chances.