please help me, i am so lost !

achang1990
Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:41:03 +0000

ok i’m a chinese immigrant, from Taiwan. I moved here about 2 years ago. i’m currently a junior in high school. I have straight A’s but I don’t do any sports. and I dont have any extra activities. I really want to be talented just like everyone else, but I suck at it. I cannnot play sports AT ALL, and I’m no good at being presidents or leaders. I was in marching band, concert band, and jazz band last year. but that was because we only have 500 kids in the entire school, and they need people in band, so basically anyone taking band are in all three kinds.

now I moved to another state, a bigger school. I feel like my counselor doesn’t really want to help me with my problems, everytime I want to ask her about how to choose classes or anything, she answered my questions in like less than 5 sentences, and when I want to take honor or AP classes, she told me I should go with regular classes and wait till my senior year to take AP classes. and that makes me real mad, cuz I think I can handel honor and AP classes, and regular classes are too easy for me, but she wouldn’t let me.

I am so lost about applying for colleges, scholarships and all those, so I was wondering if you guys could like explain it to me about how to apply for colleges, and how u get scholarships and stuff. and when do u guys start asking teachers to write u recommendations??and also can u apply for scholarships as a high school student?? and how does scholarship work?? do they send u like cash or whatever?and i heard if u do really good on PSAT as a junior, u could apply for some sort of scholarship?? well, i’m gonna take PSAT in about 3 months, and i’m studying my ass off, and how do u know if u could apply one?

sorry if my questions are really dumb, but yeah i really need help, everytime i think about my future then i freak out. it’s not easy to learn everything in a foreign country, anybody out there that has the same situation with me ???
thank u all for taking ur time to read this, really appreciated it!