<p>standing: international student
Currently attending Penn state (3rd semester)
College Cumulative GPA: 3.97/4.0 (28.5 credits) I had one A- in an Art class. ( 1st semester 3.92 and 2nd sem: 4.0/4.0)
SAT: 1850 (optional??), took 3 times and 1850 was totalled up with the highest points in each section out of 3 SATs (How does Cornell look at it??) (510 reading, 610 writing, 730 math)...</p>
<p>attended a Canadian HS, no ranking
HS GPA: barely 3.0 ( 3.6 in 12th grade ) Cumul may be even lower than 3.0...
NO SAT2's nor AP's as I attended a small Canadian HS.</p>
<p>Extra curricular Acts: </p>
<p>-Church band leader for 3 yrs
-Sunday school teacher (for kids) for 2 yrs
-School band & Jazz band since 9th grade (but not in college)
-Worked as an English teacher at an institute in Korea
-Peer tutor for 6 mths in 12th gr
-Leadership program held by HS for 1 yr.</p>
<p>Honors: </p>
<p>-honor roll in 9th and 12th grade.
-I'm a member of the NSCS (National Society of Collegiate Scholars)
-I got the highest grade in Macro Econ and 2nd highest in Micro
-Received "Korea Chapter of the Penn State Alumni Association Endowed Scholarship"
-I got offered to be a supplemental tutor for Econ and Calc in my current college.</p>
<p>PROBLEM: my HS gpa is really bad..I started trying hard upon arrival to Penn state to transfer to an Ivy league. My SAT scores are relatively bad but I saw the SATs are optional (Is this correct?) </p>
<p>PLEASE CHANCE ME!!</p>