American colleges will generally honor the diplomas even if the exams were cancelled, as long as it was awarded. So you might be able to get some gen ed credits from that and in any case colleges will be able to assess your secondary school grades (ie., 80% in the US isn’t very good, but it’s topnotch for a French-patterned school).
Your 1st year of college will provide another example of academic strength. A year of straight A’s (A’s and A-'s) from a US community college would further strengthen your record.
Work alongside your classes and participate in something on-campus and you’ll have a pretty good application.
Come back in December when you have your CC grades and we’ll see how to help you get into a meet-need college.
Do include Berea on your list: it’s a high-quality college dedicated to high-achieving, lower income students. Its application is not on CommonApp and probably opens in July but you’d be a better candidate with a US CC transcript.
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