<p>Hi! Im currently in my junior year of high school in Canada. I am deciding to go to college in the states and I had a couple questions.
I know that colleges in the states look at marks from grades 9-12. However I did terrible in my freshman and sophomore year. Im doing better now tho. I am planning on taking the ACT in April - aiming for at least a 26 - and my overall GPA according to the Canadian scale is 3.37. My junior year itself is 3.9. I also have work and volunteer experience. I play soccer and dance. Ive gone out of the country and volunteered.
I won't be taking any financial aid or anything.
I was wondering if I could get in to FIU, FAU, UMIAMI, UCLA, NYU???</p>
<p>You’re in the wrong forum. This is the Prep School Admissions forum.</p>
<p>I hear that Canadian grades tend to be signifcantly lower than those by US standards. Is that true?</p>
<p>I would suggest visiting the websites of the schools you wish to attend and find where they have information about international students. Most likely you’ll be able to find out there their acceptance standards for Canadian students.</p>
<p>These schools are wildly different!!!
FIU, like FAU, or UWF, are lower-ranked Florida publics; look into UCF, UWF, and UNF if you’re interested in Florida universities that are a notch above these.
UMiami is a very selective private university. Your projected ACT score and your GPA (even taking into account the Canadian deflation) wouldn’t be competitive for it. If you want to look at mid-range private universities in Florida, you have Eckerd, Rollins, Florida Southern, UTampa, Barry, Flagler College.
UCLA is a highly selective public university that would cost you 50,000 per year. Ask your parents if they have the money ( as of now, you wouldn’t be competitive). NYU is private but you’re probably not competitive and it is both very expensive and very lousy at financial aid.</p>
<p>Buy yourself a Princeton Review’s Best Colleges and read the description carefully.</p>
<p>Couldn’t they move to California and go to community college for 2 years to get into UCLA? I’m not sure how or what you have to do to be defined as a California resident, but that’s something to look into. If you become a California resident and do well in community college, you can apply to all the awesome UCs and won’t have to pay a ridiculous tution. </p>
<p>Going to community college in CA does not make you a resident of CA. If it were that easy, everybody would do it and CA resources would be exhausted. :)</p>
<p>@myos1634
I know FIU and FAU aren’t very good schools but I was just wondering if I would get accepted??? And by saying that I won’t be competitive for it do you mean I won’t get accepted???
My parents are alright with paying full tuition. </p>
<p>Yes you’d be accepted into FAU and FIU as well as UWF; you’d have a shot at UNF, USF.
“you’re not competitive” means that in the competitions for admission, the many, many kids applying to UMiami with 3.8/2000 SAT will trump your stats every time so I don’t see how you could get in, even as a full pay, but you never know so you can always apply “just to see” as long as you have the other schools on your list.</p>