Chances for an Asian Idiot from Canada Please > <

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
1

<p>Hello I'm an asian student from Canada
I moved here from Korea in grade 8, so I still am not very articulate in english :S
Im going into my senior year at one of the top 25 private schools in Canada (don't even know how i got accepted :S)</p>

<p>GPA 3.5 on 4.0 scale
yea its really low =( mostly because i overloaded myself in my junior trying to do everyhtinng.. =( but then if i get the expected grades next year and apply regular, I should have 3.73 gpa for sophomore, junior and senior year... hope that helps..?</p>

<p>rank: school doesnt rank</p>

<p>SAT I
1st try was back in sophomore year and i got 1890 which was really dissapointing
I have been studying for past half year or so, and I'm pulling off around 2100 on the practice tests I have been taking</p>

<p>SAT II
Chem, Math II, Physics
havent taken yet,,=( yea i still have a lot to do, but im confident i will get around 750 on all of them.</p>

<p>AP/IB : school doesnt offer either.
we have special program where the honors student finish senior courseload by junior year and in senior we go and take university courses at University of British Columbia. I will be taking 5 University level courses through this program in upcoming september. and one of them will be a 2nd year course. </p>

<p>Senior Year Course Load
Differential Calculus 204 Corpus Christi College at UBC
Chemistry 121 Corpus Christi College at UBC
Physics 101 Corpus Christi College at UBC
English 100 Corpus Christi College at UBC
History 100 Corpus Christi College at UBC
Entrepreneurship 12
Religion 12 (required)
Law 12
Psychology 12</p>

<p>Major Awards
nothing much..just some math related ones like top 10 in school history
on some contests etcetc
City of Vancouver Youth Award: Organization: Vancouver Youth Parliament</p>

<p>job/work: none</p>

<p>Extracurricular
Taekwondo Black Belt
Math Club Executive (for past 3 years)
Social Justice Society President in senior year vp in junior
Reach for the Top team member (basically err jeopardy for high school students in canada) (team 9th in the provinec)
Debate Team Member since junior year
Edmundian Association (it's like one of the 3 student leadership groups in school along with the lettermen and the student council)
The Voice Newspaper Writer/Junior Edittor
Model United Nations Club Founder/President
-also staffing as director/and crisis director at 2 upcoming conferences
-Head Delegating all the conferences my school attends
International Young Lions Club Director
The Collegian Yearbook Photographer/Writer/Junior Edittor
Vancouver Youth Parliament (its kind of like mock legislature)</p>

<p>Volunteer
at a local church, I served altar for about 5 years though i've quit now around 1000 hours
Soup Kitchen (its where the homeless people come to eat) 30 hours ish
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vancouver 50 hours ish
In School Volunteer Hours 100hours ish</p>

<p>this is pretty much it and i hope to either go to Ross School or study International Studies =)</p>

<p>thanks so much</p>

2

<p>Reach.
Gpa is too low.</p>

3

<p>da mn canadians. ultra reach just cos ur canadian.</p>

4

<p>I don’t see how you are an idiot. Anyway, I’d say major reach for ross, especially because you are an international. I’m not sure which school international relations is in, but I’d say reach for that to. Your GPA and your test scores are below average.</p>

5

<p>work harder on improving your gpa’s. Your extra circrucs are quite “good”</p>

6

<p>Reach</p>

<p>char</p>

7

<p>International student/low gpa. Reach</p>

8

<p>Beg to differ guys. They don’t hand out As like candy in the more rigorous of Canadian schools. By way of example, a U.S. GPA bare minimum to get into UBC, which he is attending as a senior, is 3.5.
I don’t think he’s as much of a reach as the previous posters do, due to strength of suspected school and the quality of the UBC courses as a form of dual enrollment/advanced study. UBC is a good school.
That said, OP, even though your school doesn’t rank, where would you turn up statistically? If within top 20, 10 or 5, get a teacher to say so in recommendation. Do try to keep an upward trend in your GPA and do explain what you learned about time management the year your grades dropped b/c you were over-committed.</p>