<p>For my sophomore year of high school I spend a year schooling in Nigeria. I am a citizen of the USA but my parents wanted me to school in Nigeria with my brother for a year. The grading system over there was very different than that of the United States. Tests were completely different because it took me awhile to adapt. I had a course load of about 12 classes(french, yoruba(african language), geography, physics, biology, chemistry, economics, english, math, further mathematics, food and nutrition, ICT) 2 of them included language classes I never had exposure to. I got an 89 on all my 3 spanish classes here in the USA so its not like I cant learn a language. There weren't many resources at the school, so if I even wanted to learn on my own time it would be impossible. We only had about 3 hours of study time each day and I never got enough sleep(bout 6 hours each day). Many chores and the teachers were strict, some didn't teach well and I had a hard time understanding accents at first. I even overcame one subject at a time(got the 2nd highest score in my chemistry final test) but I still had a average of 65 with a rank of about 18/21. Btw the highest score was an 89(Many people believed her parents were bribing the teachers, I wouldn't be surprised if it were true) and the second highest was about 84. I would've been in at least the top 10 of my class without those language classes. I did start to learn the hang of the grading system and how things worked but it was already too late to improve drastically by that time. I do not regret the experience as I met many friends and had exposure to a different culture. My GPA without the 10th grade grade is a 3.6 and my sat score is a estimated 2200(for previous practice tests). I honestly don't know what the 65 score would be equivalent to in the American system. I typed this in a rush, so sorry for any grammar mistakes. </p>
<p>How do you think colleges will view my situation?
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