Please Chance Me

Chance Me / Match Me!
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I am a rising-junior student, living in Midwest, but born in South Korea (came to the US last year by myself) and, as many of you would guess, I am an asian.

If y’all could chance me based on the info below, it’d be amazing thanks!

List of Colleges
USA: Yale, UPenn (Wharton), Brown(International Relations), UC Berkeley(Haas), UCLA(Econ), UMich (Business), NYU (Stern), USC (Marshall), Pomona (International Relations), Boston College (Business)

Asia: HKU, HKUST, NUS, Yale-NUS

GPA: UW 4.0 (there’s no weighted)
Rank: my school doesn’t rank
SAT: Single sitting, 1460/1600
ACT: Got 26, but not gonna report it
SAT II: Math2C 800, Japanese 760, Bio 780

Major courses took (or taking): College Human Biology, College Calculus AB, College Literature (but since I’m a foreign, no college credits will be accredited)
Will take (during Junior): AP Calc BC, AP Eng Lang, AP Biology, APWH, AP US Govn
Will take (during Senior): AP Eng Lit, AP Stat, AP Chem, AP Human Geo
TOEFL: 110

Extracurricular: Founded an MUN organization based in Korea(also a secretary general and standing advisor); Chief Executive Officer of a non-profit organization based in Korea; founder/CEO of an non-profit, educational organization based in Korea; Project Manager at non-profit, youth organization; International Specialist for a teenaged newspaper; participated in 20+ MUN (as a chair, delegate, staff, and secretariat); school varsity speech member; school’s one act play state champion; school’s Human Rights and Equality center President; school MUN Club President; school student council; Assistant and Instructor at a Global Education company (HQ based in Sweden but I worked at Seoul Office); Intern at Korean-based English education company; currently writing a book w/ a professor at UMN; some private tutoring for Korean ESL students; teacher at a volunteering organization

(Kinda broad, but you will get a grasp of it)

I got one bummer, which is I have horrible academic transcript from Korean high school, which will be replacing my 9th grade record (since I didn’t go to school in the US). I’ve emailed some of the colleges above and I know that they’re evaluating a student very holistically… but still very worried.

Would I make it to any of the colleges I named above?

Thanks!

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Too early to comment. You just finished your sophomore year. Tell us what your ACT and GPA is next year and we can give you a better idea. Why were your grades poor in 9th grade?

Awesome extracurriculars…BUT…

After you get through that mountain of AP classes you hope to take…share your scores and we can give you a much better idea.

Planning is not the same as having done.

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Thanks for such comment :slight_smile: :slight_smile: Korea has very different educational system than the US and is highly competitive. I went to a school that is classified as ‘specialized high school’ which selectively chooses its students; so it was rather competitive and more difficult to get a better score… :frowning: not gonna mention on my app cuz it’s my fault :q