I immigrated to the United states last year and I am currently a high school junior. English is my third language.
I am good at math and science ( taking AP Calc BC currently and will be taking multivariable calculus, AP physics C, and AP CS next year. And I will take the SAT Math II and Physics exams soon.) I wanna get to an elite college but english is the greatest obstacle. I took PSAT (new ver.) in last October and got 520/760 for critical reading and writing (and 760 for math for sure), which is not good enough.
I’m thinking of taking toefl (which costs a lot), but will an elite college really consider my toefl score?
I wanna study computer science in UC berkeley and I know EECS major in berkeley is so competitive…
and all of these are not really mentioned in the admission requirements of UCs…
and sorry for bad English…