<p>I'm a junior currently living in Florida who moved from Buenos Aires three months ago. The grading system in Argentina is pretty different from the one here. I went to a really rigorous school (it was in the top 3 of the country) which had academic ties with Cambridge. The curriculum was designed so that students would take Cambridge's A level exams which are harder than AP's because they test two years of contents. In that school one would have to study pretty hard to manage a 70% grade and I managed that in most of my classes.
However, I moved to the U.S. a couple of months before I took the A level's and my counselor told me she could't give me an AP credit for that class because I didn't take the final exam (my school accepts A levels as AP's). This hurt my GPA greatly because it doesn't reflect my academic life in Argentina at all. My weighted GPA is a 4.2 and my unweighted is a 3.4. How can I show this to colleges?
In the US I have straight A's except for a B in Algebra II. Next year i'll take 4 or 5 AP classes and i'm scoring between 1900 and 2000 in SAT practice tests. I was volleyball captain for my schools varsity team, I was president of the Creative Writing club, I participated in a solid amount of extracurriculars such as the Model UN and the school orchestra (I was the coordinator of the strings). I participated in the National Biology Olympics (over a 1000 schools participated and I ended up 25th place) during my freshmen year and have won several awards in poetry and short stories both in English and in Spanish (One of the awards was in the US).
I also have a pretty interesting cultural background. I was born in Brazil but I have lived in the U.S, Venezuela and Argentina and am fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English.
What are my chances of getting into a good colleges? which colleges should I look at?</p>