My high school life has been a little complicated so far, I finished my freshman year at a private school taking all honors classes with a 3.7, but moved to a public school for sophomore year so I could fund my exchange and continued to take the more challenging classes wherever I could (in English, math, science, public school didn’t have as many opportunities for me, and neither of my schools allowed freshmen/sophomores to take AP classes otherwise I would have) and ended this year with a 3.5.
Outside of school I participate in an art club because I do a lot of politically satirical art, and I also participate in youth group at Church. The past few summers I have gone out of state to volunteer. In 2014 I was awarded a scholarship to spend two weeks in China and I have been studying Chinese for 3 years now. (I took Chinese I in 8th grade, didn’t take any Chinese freshman year because it wasn’t offered, and skipped to Chinese III in sophomore year anyway.) Starting this August, I will spend ten months in Taiwan as an exchange student to continue my Chinese study and I expect to come back fluent(my current ability in Chinese is conversational). In senior year I expect to be taking:
AP English Literature and Composition
Classical Literature
AP Statistics
AP US History
AP Macroeconomics
AP Comparative Government
I have another spot left in my schedule and I’m debating whether to take an art class or a new language (my school offers Japanese and German which I would be interested in, but I feel the pace of high school language classes is rather slow).
I have not taken the ACT or SAT yet but my predicted score for the ACT is 30. I plan on taking the SAT subject test in Chinese, World History, and American History.
In college I plan on majoring in Asian Studies or Linguistics. I’m not really sure which colleges I should apply to that are good for these majors and within my reach. If someone could give me some suggestions it would be seriously appreciated, thanks!