<p>Low-cut shirts and short skirts? At a summer camp? I guess this was not an outdoor, rafting and rock climbing kind of camp.</p>
<p>Most selective American colleges on the East or West coasts do have a more or less casual, free-spirited atmosphere. This may be expressed in T shirts and jeans more often than low- cut shirts and short skirts. If revealing clothes make you uncomfortable, then go someplace cold :)</p>
<p>Your GPA is low for some of the schools I mentioned. If you were new to the States in 9th grade, your C’s were confined to Math, and you show a strong upward trend, then it may not be a deciding factor. Talk it over with your Guidance Counselor. Course rigor, trends, test scores and circumstances can all come into play. However, for admission to the most selective schools you’d be competing against kids who have no explaining to do. So … you may want to focus on colleges that are not in the top 20 (Occidental, Whitman, Bates, etc). Being Asian/International may give you a bigger advantage at small New England schools than California schools.</p>