<p>Hi I'm an international student and I'm new here. Hope I didn't post it in the wrong place.</p>
<p>My high school is really complicated... Until 1 semester in my sophomore year, I was always in a really competitive school in China. I went to SC for an exchange program but the Christian school I was in was unbelievable - too small to even be a school. Well, I'm now in a Catholic school in Philadelphia area in PA. To be honest, the school is not so much better than the last one. The school does not offer nice curriculum and the teachers don't really care what they are teaching us - nobody is gonna go to a highly ranked college anyway. I can say the best students take Drexel or Temple as their first choice. Nobody even thought about UPenn.</p>
<p>As for me, I really want to go to a competitive college because I still don't know what best-of-the-world American education is like - the thing that attracted my here - and I don't want to give up on that. I'm trying to study for the APs my school doesn't offer and do more things by myself. I feel like even if I get high score in SAT or APs, I will still have a hard time adapt into a nice college - if I'm luckily accepted. High school education seem to be really important to the basics of my knowledge.</p>
<p>I figured that I should not transfer again because I'm a junior already. But do I have a chance to go to extremely competitive colleges if I'm educated in a not-as-good high school?</p>