<p>so I've been working on my early admissions,
I'm not yet completely sure what colleges I want to apply to.
I want to major in Engineering/Pharmacy, (more likely in Engineering)
I live in NC and so far I have NC State, UNC Chapel hill, Penn state, and elon.
I chose Penn State because I lived in PA for a year and my stepsister/stepbrother go to Pitt.</p>
<p>so, little info about me...
I moved to the states about 2 years ago, (summer 2010) so english is my second language.
I was in ESL courses in 9th grade and exited,
in 10th grade a little bit of honors, junior year mostly honors and now all my courses except for 2 are APs.
I had senior conference with my counselor a while ago and she really liked my transcript, she said they're gonna see that I took ESL classes and my current schedules and it's definitely something to write about.
my GPA is 4.0 (weighted) 3.7 (unweighted), and im 125th out of 420 I think? yeah not so great I know.</p>
<p>the only thing I'm worried about is that I wasn't really involved in extracurriculars, if not at all...
like, I would go to some meetings occasionally but I wasn't really a "member" of any of them.
and I don't have any service hours either. well I have 4 hrs from freshman year but yeahh..
so this year I'm trying to get into FCCLA and Key Club and do some community services.
I know this is going to hurt my chances but oh well...
I got invitations from both NJHS and NHS, but couldn't get in because of this...</p>
<p>also, SAT scores. oh god.
I took one in June and got 1640. horrible. I'm taking it again this weekend,
and I'm shooting for 1800's.</p>
<p>so based on all these, what are my chances to get into some good colleges?
also, what are some suggestions for any other colleges to apply?
I want to have a "dream college" that I can apply to, but I just don't know which.
dang I wish I was smart enough to apply to ivy league :p</p>