Immigrant HS Student

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi</p>

<p>I immigrated to the US at the start of my freshman year from a non-English speaking country and am currently a hs junior. I do ok in school i.e. I take APs, am involved, maintain a GPA above 4.0 and scored just above 2000 on the SAT (first try, but of course I'll keep trying). </p>

<p>I know that college admissions depend on virtually everything, but would someone please tell me if being a recent immigrant will help my chances? And if so, by about how much? Because making it to all those numbers above has been so much harder for me than for native students. </p>

<p>Or do colleges just not care at all?</p>

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<p>Where you immigrated from will have an effect. Will help at some of the privates, less so at the public schools.</p>

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<p>I’m in the same position. And I didn’t know the country mattered? Which countries are more “desirable” to colleges?</p>

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<p>What schools do you want to attend?</p>

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<p>I’m mainly shooting for UCLA, Berkeley and Stanford at the moment…but I’m still hoping for Ivies too even though most posts here at cc make their admissions look like the final judgment.</p>

<p>And I immigrated from Taiwan, where learning is conducted in Chinese and the educational system is entirely different.</p>