Non-stereotypical Asian -- Advice, please!

farya
Sun, 05 Aug 2007 22:30:01 +0000

I also went to a public elite. I had nearly the same stats at you–my SATs were a bit higher, my GPA was a couple tenths lower. I am Asian. I did fine and got into some pretty selective colleges.

I think it’ll be to your advantage to have an upward trend–even though my C+ hiccup was during junior year, my GPA that year was the highest it’d been. And my senior year GPA was higher.

If you’re really worried about that C+, address it in that part of the CommonApp that asks you to say whatever you want that they haven’t asked. That’s what I did, and it turned out fine. :)

And work on your essays–I’d like to think that they helped a lot in getting me into college.