<p>I'm a Korean-Canadian rising-senior in Canada right now. I want to major in communications, public relations, marketing, or advertising. I haven't taken formal SAT's yet and I have one more year to add some EC's. </p>
<p>GPA: 96% (school doesn't do 4 point scale or weighting)
Rank: Assuming top 5 out of 200 students
AP Microeconomics
AP Macroeconomics
AP Bio
AP Psychology
AP World History
AP English Lit and Calculus in senior year
My school only offers a few AP's as I'm in Canada so I hope doing self-studying will give me more credit. </p>
<p>SATS:
Taken formal practice tests at institution
SAT I - 2100 (taking real one in Jan, hoping to get up to 2250)
Haven't done SAT II's yet (assuming 750+)</p>
<p>EC's (not much of a sports guy ;)
-Student council 5 year commitment and reached President
-Project Kenya Sister School committee member
-Debate team captain
-BC Summer Games public relations, reporter
-International Festival marketing team
-Teen Mentor for troubled elementary school students
-Humanitarian club member
-planning to start DECA team at school
-100+ hours of other volunteer work
-going to UPenn or Berkeley next year to take some summer courses.</p>
<p>Awards
-Top Student
-Principal's Award 2 times
-Top Social Studies students
entering more competitions next year for debate and possibly DECA </p>
<p>Sorry for the lack of information but please chance!!</p>
<p>What scores did you receive on those AP tests? Your GPA and testing looks fantastic for those schools, as well as your course rigor…your ECs are decent, the President of Student Council is good for demonstrating leadership. Your awards are lacking. Overall, you have a pretty good profile.</p>
<p>As long as your SATs go as prospected:
Upenn (Small Reach), Berkeley(Match), UChicago(Match), Duke(Reach).</p>
<p>These are mostly surprising choices given desired majors. Can we assume you need no aid given that Berkeley would give you zero and some of the others are not need blind for yup?</p>
<p>I’m not sure which top tier schools are good for the majors I’ve chosen. I know Upenn has a good communications program with association with the marketing program at Wharton. I also heard that Berkeley has good communications as well. Would you recommend any good schools for my chosen majors, I’m still researching but can’t seem to find really good ones that are Ivy or at least top-tier. I would also probably need financial aid as well, so not sure about Berkeley.</p>
<p>OOOOHHHH! FA changes everything. most ivies will give you need-based, need-blind; but state schools definitely wont. So Berkely you’re pretty much screwed. UPenn will give you decent FA, Duke will be hard to get into with your stats and even harder with FA, and idk about uchicago’s FA policies.</p>
<p>You’re not going to find an ivy with majors like PR or advertising. Ivies don’t teach many vocations. You certainly don’t need such majors to work in the field, but if that’s what you want to study you would largely be looking at state schools or large privates like USC or Syracuse.</p>
<p>Yeah I just did some additional research. I found that Northwestern, USC, Syracuse, Boston University are all good school for communication. Upenn is still a runner. I’ve revised my college list to those, so could you chance again?</p>
<p>If you want communications as a major then you should be looking at Northwestern not chicago. I’m not sure if it has FA for international students, I think it has, but Berkeley - another top-rated school for communications - hasn’t. Berkeley is set up so that only those students coming from the well-to-do families can afford it. If you’re not really well-off, I suggest you avoid applying to Berkeley. However, it is a relatively cheaper school for Californian residence.</p>
<p>USC would be more of a fallback for NU. But if you cna get into Penn, which I think is the hardest school to get iinto in your list, then go there. Duke isn’t really known for communications.</p>
<p>Yea, BU is a better fit, or maybe Syracuse. Being Korean (and Canadien) and your 2100 gives you a low chance at the first 4. And the fact that “I’m not a sports guy” and your Asian certainly does not help you stand out.</p>