As a junior, I get very nervous whether I will get into the colleges I want. I really want to get into NYU (especially Stern, the business school), Boston University, UC Irvine, Penn State, or University of Michigan. I want to major in finance. Although I was born in the US, I spent 7 years of my life in another country and English was my second language. I was in ESL until freshman year so I did not get into any honors classes for English.
I also get around a 600 in reading on the SAT although get around 720 in writing and 700 in math in the SAT’s I take at my tutoring place, where I take a full SAT from previous years and get around 1950 on average but up to 2000, which I hope to improve. I took an SAT but haven’t got my score back. I am pretty confident in my SAT but my GPA is what worries me. I started off freshman year badly with a GPA around 2.9 and the same sophomore year. Luckily junior year I got my mind straight and have almost a 3.2 weighted GPA with an AP. I am taking an AP and honors next year and think my GPA will be much higher because I have more room for classes that I’m interested in and good at rather than classes I’m required to take.
I also have extra curricular activities such as going to Scotland and Japan with two different programs as an exchange student, playing soccer on a club team, and I am a boy scout working on my eagle scout rank. I hope to join a precollege program over the summer and I speak fluent Turkish and English, and also take Spanish in school (all 4 years). I am on my school’s debate team and was one of the two teams (consisting of two partners so 4 people in total) recently chosen to go to the JV championships and my partner and I were the team with the best record on the JV team and the championships. What are my chances of getting into the colleges I listed and do you have any colleges you would recommend me to check out? I am really nervous about getting into a good college, please help me!