Firstly, sorry for typo. I’m on phone now.
Background: I’m full Asian with two nationalities: South Korean and USA. I was born in Albany, but spent most of life on South Korea. After my Freshman yesr in Korea, I moved to one high school in California. Yeah, I never thought this unique case would prevent me from getting in some colleges. Let me explain later
College list
University of Minnesota CLA
Ohio State University
I aleady got into both schools
Now waiting for
University of Maryland college park
University of Wisconsin Madison
University of Connecticut
University of Washington
UCSC
UCD
UCSB
UCSD
UCLA
UCB
Majors are mostly undecided not in science field if possible, except for a few. As for UCB, I chose language for better competition; As for UCSC, it’s undecided in science field.
Class Courses
Freshman
It’s in South Korea, so my high school translated freshman grades into just pass or non-pass
All pass other than one - Chinese. It remains as F on my transcript, unfortunately.
Sophomore
first semester
Biology A +
World History A
ESL A
Algebra 2 A
English 10 A
PE A
second semester
Honors Biology B+
World History A+
ESL A
Honors Algebra A
English 10 A -
PE A
Junior
First semester
Drama A-
AP English and Composition B
German 1 A
Honors Chemistry A
AP US History A-
Advanced Math Analysis (It counts as AP class) A
second semester
Drama A
AP Composition B + (It could have been A -. I figured out that my teacher made mistakes when grading my essays, but I just stupidly let it go as I was satisfied at that time with B. Now, it’s too late.
German A
Honors Chemistry A
AP US History B (My teacher grades my DBQ F, which is 10 percents of overall grade, lol. Without that, it would be A -)
AMA A
Senior
First Semester
AP Physics C A
AP Economics A
AP Calculus BC A
Student Leadership A+
AP Lit Probably B or C
German 2 A
Well I am sure of these grades as final grade other than AP lit, in which my teacher does slack over grading my essays or other assignments. So, I have no idea what my final grade is in that class.
GPA without Senior
UW 3.724(Without freshman gpa, it will be arlund 3.8
W 3.92(our school does not weigh on honors class…)
UC GPA 4.09
Test scores
Old SAT
November 2015: CR 540 Math 740 W 510 = 1760
December 2015: CR 630 Math 690 W 570 = 1890
ACT
March 2016(I’m not sure about the date…)
English 26 Reading 33 Math 32 Science 30 Overall 30 Essay 16…
New SAT
July 2016 English 650 Math 760 = 1410
November 2016 English 680 Math 730 = 1410…No improvement…
SAT Subject Test
Math 2 800
AP test
AP Composition 3
AP US History 4
Extracurriculum
Student Leadership class for one year - it helps to set up and organize school events
Track And Field - Junior and Senior
Cross Country - Senior
Mock Trial - Senior
About 30 hours of volunteering… not significant.
Honestly, I did not take Toefl even though my first language is not English, because I do know some colleges are willing to waive me based on my US citizenship or test scores, but now I realize UW madison and UMD requries me to take it. It’s my fault, and still, it’s already spilled water. I just need to accept that I do not make it in neither of schools.
Addictional Question:
How good is University of Minnesota or OSU in academical way? I mean, I feel like UCSB, which is my main target(I know I have no chance in UCSD or UCLA or UCB,) may be better than those, no offense though. Also, UCs are cheaper.