<p>okay so lemme introdue myself to you guys first.
i'm an international student but i go to a highschool here in the u.s.
and there's such a long story behind this but being 18 years old, i'm still a junior in high school. lemme clarify, i didn't get held back or anything negative.</p>
<p>anyways, currently i have a 4.0 gpa and my sats are 650/800/710 adding up to 2160 and i got 800s on math ll2 , physics, and korean. and i'm thinking about taking another one like world history becuz i figured as a native korean speaker, getting a 800 on korean isn't gonna look impressive at all to the admission people. </p>
<p>and i also got a 4 on my AP calc AB exam (thinking about taking the BC exam to make up for this) and i will b taking 4 more ap exams in 2010 may and i'm positive that i will get 5's on those.</p>
<p>and my ECs are not too good but they're decent. i am an AMC qualifier and i did pretty well on AIME. have a couple of awards from many different areas. i have 3 years of playing varcity soccer as well as basketball.</p>
<p>i just think that i'd definetely b able to get into one of the prestigious universities in the us if i were like 2 years younger.</p>
<p>what are you guys thoughts on the issue i have and chances of getting into universities like stanford or u.c. berkeley (since i live in CA) etc..</p>
<p>would college discriminate aginst me cuz i'm too old to b a junior ? or have u guys seen
any case that's smiliar to mine who got into the top schools?</p>
<p>I see absolutely no reason why they’d discriminate against you for being older. You may want to explain the whole long story about <em>why</em> you’re older; it might make you more diverse or something. But I don’t think they’d reject you just because you’re older.</p>
<p>It’s not going to hurt you one bit. I’m an international student and matriculated to a Top 20 college at the age of 20. If anything, coming in overaged might have helped me because I was able to write about an incredibly intriguing experience that I went through after I graduated from high school. Don’t worry about it.</p>
<p>jums congrats but Stanford and UCB have minute accept rates for internationals – lower than for domestic applicants (which is already painfully low).</p>
<p>Like everyone else is saying, your age shouldn’t be a problem. I knew a number of people at MIT who were a little older than the general crowd - because they served in the military (the US military or, in the case of some international students, their home country’s), because their parents started them a year late in kindergarten to let them gain social maturity, because they took a gap year, whatever.</p>
<p>Staring college at 19 is a complete non-factor and is about a rare as finding jeans at a Gap store. However, your cell phone grammar makes you seem like you’re twelve, not someone who is ready for Stanford.</p>
<p>Same story at our high school. There quite a few kids who immigrated during grade school with their familes who spoke no English. They often repeated a grade because of that, not because they weren’t smart. A typical high schooler will turn 18 during his or her senior year. Being 19 is not a negative factor for college admissions. Being 20 might matter in participating on sports teams or in some national organizations.</p>
<p>Age is no concern. But as a Korean intnl, your SAT scores will not be very competitive for the top private colleges. You do look good for all UCs. For Stanford and it’s peers, give the ACT a try or work on the SATs. This is assuming 4.0 unweighted and at the top of your class.</p>
<p>T26E4- it’s not just Stanford and UCB, it’s everywhere. We internationals have a tough time getting into any of the top American Universities but the tension of the application process is all worth it at the end of the day once an acceptance letter comes in.</p>