Help me, please? I'm confused.

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<p>Good afternoon! (night, morning... whatever haha) </p>

<p>I recently moved here (US) and I always wanted to pursue a higher education even though my GPA may say the opposite. I wanna go to Rutgers-Newark and then transfer to NYU, that's my main goal.</p>

<p>I'm a little lost since my country's educational system is a little different from yours. In my country, they don't care about your grades at all; Going to a public HS can be a living hell since nobody cares about their grades and it's hard to concentrate (specially because I had a job)... but I'm not here to complain or make any excuses.</p>

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<li><p>My stats:
• GPA: 2.4 (I know it's low)
• International HS graduate
• Latino, first-generation student, middle income.</p></li>
<li><p>International Standartized Scores got me:
• My essay got one of the highest possible grades
• Accepted in one of the top 10 universities in Latin America, top 3 in my country.
• Full-tuition scholarship to get a Law degree in a private university (Law isn't a postgraduate degree in my country)</p></li>
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<p>My school didn't have any activities club or even a counselour. I don't have a recommendation letter (MSU said they could waive it) and it's impossible for me to get one: I would have to comeback to my country and TRY to get one with the principal, I didn't see anyone getting recommendation letters since it is useless there.</p>

<p>Should I even bother and try to take the SATs or go straight to a community college, try to raise my grades and start with a whole new GPA? If I take the SATs is there any chances that my scores will overcome my GPA?</p>

<p>PS: I would apply as a freshman.</p>

<p>Thank you in advance.</p>

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<p>Please guys, I beg you :(</p>

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<p>[EducationUSA</a> | Study Abroad, Student Visa, University Fairs, College Applications and Study in the U.S. / America](<a href=“http://Www.EducationUSA.state.gov%5DEducationUSA”>http://Www.EducationUSA.state.gov). Read through all of it, then contact the counselors at the advising center in the country where you used to live. Find out what colleges here would have accepted you if you had applied while you still lived there. Ask about the best transcript evaluation firms for records from your country. Most colleges accept translations and evaluations done by [World</a> Education Services - International Education Intelligence](<a href=“http://Www.wes.org%5DWorld”>http://Www.wes.org) but there are other firms that do that type of work.</p>

<p>Spend some time in the International Students Forum, and look for posts by students with situations like yours. You aren’t alone.</p>

<p>Wishing you all the best!</p>