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<p>Hi people, this is my first post :D</p>
<p>Like the title says, I'm a Korean student who wants to apply to an American college.</p>
<p>I hardly have any contact with any other kids who want to go to college in the States because I spent most of my teenage years in Korea (at a Korean high school, obviously), although I'm currently living in Germany for my last year of high school (German gymnasium), so I don't have any access to college counselors or any of that fancy stuff some people are privileged with.</p>
<p>So far I've taken two APs, World History and Biology--both 5s. I also took SAT subject tests: English Literature 750, Math Level II 770, Biology M 750, World History 780. This week and the week after that, I'm scheduled to take AP German and AP English Language and Composition. In June, I'm going to have to re-take the SAT I, because I botched the last one. (I was sick as a pig.) I figured that I did fairly well so far, considering that I received no help from anybody with test prep. </p>
<p>My essays are pretty good, and I'm comfortable speaking with people--including interviewers--without freezing up and saying something stupid. I'm afraid I haven't done alot of extra curriculars yet, although I plan to do some intensively once this wave of tests passes over.. All I've really done is work with the phsycially disabled for a short time, and more significantly, with Amnesty International Korea (when I was 16~17). I was a coordinator for two months, and I learned alot from this..I don't know useful it will be, but just for the record..</p>
<p>Technically, I'm in the "homeschooled" category, although I'm wasn't homeschooled per se..
So I don't know my GPA..I'll edit this later when I figure it out.</p>
<p>I took the iBT TOEFL and 117 points out of 120.</p>
<p>I can speak Korean, English and German with varying degrees of fluency. Korean and English are good and German is passable. </p>
<p>I wasn't really the "I must be valedictorian" type, so no fancy list of positions I've held.</p>
<p>I've been in Germany for almost two months, and I studied German for about a year before that, and my German is mediocre to slightly better than mediocre. If anybody has any info on how hard the AP German will be, any help or pointers will be greatly appreciated. </p>
<p>I'm sorry this post is so desultory, but as you can see, I'm very apprehensive of my shot at a US college because I don't know if I did enough APs or SAT IIs. I don't have a standard to compare myself to and I flat out know very little about individual colleges.. The thing is that, since I don't live in the States, living costs coupled with tuition will be a bit straining on our family economy so I need to get a scholarship of some sort..Whether it be merit or charity....</p>
<p>So, if anybody is up for giving me some really general information, please help!!</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>-Max</p>