Help! I need somebody, help! not just anyboby

Applying to College
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<p>hello.</p>

<p>I'm international student, junior.</p>

<p>my GPA is almost 3.83/4.00</p>

<p>SAT Reasoning - CR 650 MATH 800 W 730 - Total 2180 (mock SAT)
SAT Subject - Math2C 800 Biology 800 Chemistry 780 U.S History 710
AP - Microecon 5 / Macroecon 5 / Chem 5 / Calcul BC 5 (subscore 5)
Bio 5 / U.S History 4
(Planning to take another 5 APs in Senior year)</p>

<p>Awards - National English Fluency Test - 9th(silver award)
Korean National Biology Olympiad - Bronze Prize
Singing Competition - Promotional Award in city
Orchestra competition - First Prize in city</p>

<p>ECs - Accappella club(11) - founder, president
Orchestra(10,11) - 2nd trumbone
another Accappella(10,11) - solo
Biology club(11) - participant
Governmental Cultural Exchange Program with china -
representative of national team
2006 MUNOS participant
2006 UNA - USA participant
1st Korean High school Debate Championship - participant (did horribly)</p>

<p>Internship - Working in Korea University Molecular Biology Lab (2 yrs) </p>

<p>I go to one of the most competitive schools in Korea, and almost all of the kids I know does better than I do. Besides, because of "illegitimacy," my school's "AP courses" are not registered as AP courses.
I worked really hard for biology, and I got Bronze Prize in national competition. </p>

<p>Now, you would think that I'm crazy, but how can i get into </p>

<p>Stanford - Bioengineering
MIT - Bioengineering
JHU - Bioengineering
UC Berkeley - Biology
GeorgiaTech - Bioengineering</p>

<p>with this not-good GPA????</p>

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<p>It's not a real SAT reasoning test score.
It's just MOCK SAT...</p>

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<p>Your GPA isn't that bad. The freshmen entering Stanford last year had an average GPA of 3.9; I don't know if that's weighted or unweighted. But at any rate, if that's the average, someone has to be below average, right? So don't stress out too much over that point.</p>

<p>You have some decent ECs. I wonder what you are most interested in, and what you have learned a lot from. Your essays will need to be great to get you in... keep that in mind =]</p>

<p>Also, at Stanford, you don't apply to a specific program; you just apply to Stanford, and once you get in, you're free to pick up pretty much any major (some require an application, but I believe most don't).</p>

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<p>thanks celestial605.</p>

<p>I'm interested in biology, but god, that GPA was killing me.</p>