<p>Hi.</p>
<p>I'm currently a junior and seriously nervous.</p>
<p>um.. this post is gonna be about the college that I wanna get into.. Cornell.</p>
<p>here's my little story.</p>
<p>I came to this country exactly three years ago from Korea.</p>
<p>that was when I was freshman in HS, and I didn't know what was going on around me.</p>
<p>first, I couldn't speak English so I didn't understand the school/class instructions.
It resulted in bad grades (somehow managed to get As) GPA 3.87 (regular 4.0, honor 5.0)
also, I was not THAT sociable to make a lot of friends with limited language. </p>
<p>and so I became sophomore.
in freshman, I had to take Essentials and ESL classes.
to this point, I didn't know anything about honors roll.
but, I became more skillful in English and could take regular classes instead of ESL and essentials. (with 1 honor in math because I'm Asian.. haha)</p>
<p>in sophomore year, I did little better than I did in freshman year . (like 2 A-s) GPA 4.1</p>
<p>so I became more familiar with what was going on around me, and got to know most of the people in the school. I became friendly with my teachers and got into all honors and AP classes except for English class. In junior year, which ends in about a month, I'm expecting an A- from my Spanish class.. so expected GPA 4.8</p>
<p>Next year, I'm taking AP physics,AP lang&comp, AP world, AP Calc BC, Spanish H, English H</p>
<p>Since I was so busy learning the language (I had to learn Spanish and English at the same time) and adapting into the society, I realized the importance of SATs late in sophomore year. I took PSAT at the end of my sophomore year, and I got 147. in junior year, I got 200 (ha!)</p>
<p>I took 3 SAT2s Math 1c,2c, and chem (770,790,780) and got 2070 on my SAT1 (I recently took May one and hoping it would break 2200)</p>
<p>And for ECs.. I loved singing.
But you know how the Asian parents are.
"Study, don't care about anything else"
I did not professional lessons for singing, but I was in auditioned choirs and got the solo performances in few concerts.
I was involved in many clubs in sophomore/junior year.
I'm becoming the vice president of multi cultural club, and possibly Chinese club.
I was qualified for AMIE, and was in Science League..</p>
<p>What I really want to do is getting into Cornell.
but I realize that my GPA is lower than other applicants because there was no way for me to take honors classes in freshman and sophomore year. I see this kind of unfair because I did my best in all my classes, and earned what I earned with limited language.. (imagine being in ESL and Spanish class at the same time. I thought the teacher spoke in Spanish when actually he explained it in English)</p>
<p>If you are the person in the admission office, would you see me as a potential student in Cornell?</p>
<p>p.s. I'm doing ED cornell and EA Uchicago. I</p>