Would being a immigrant help?

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

<p>Hi..</p>

<p>I have some questions to ask...
(well thats why everyone come to these forums isn't it?)</p>

<p>Well..
I came to US when I was 8th grade with my whole family...</p>

<p>And, I'm currently at end of sophomore year...</p>

<p>maybe some of you guys already have noticed..
I had A LOT of problems speaking English when i first came here...
well.. not so MUCH now though...</p>

<p>(my korean English teacher and my whole korean english class "laughed" at me when i first told them i wanted to go to US and study there- I was one of the "WORST" english learner even back in Korea..)</p>

<p>Since I was so horrible at english.. my counselor had "put" me in some "below average classes" including English and science class when I was freshman...</p>

<p>Since then, I studied and worked my butt off to get better at english..
and fortunately I had gotten (gotten or got??) better at english as i hoped, and now I managed to get an "A" both in AP Euro and "regular" english class.
(I'm expecting 4 or 5 on AP Euro exam..)</p>

<p>Anyway... my question is "would being an immigrant help me in college admission?" and if it does "how much...?"</p>

<p>and I know this may sound silly...
I'm planning to take AP English language next year, and I don't know if I can manage that class or not...</p>

<p>is that class hard?
how would you rate the difficulty of "AP English language" in comparison to other AP courses?</p>

2

<p>are you a US citizen?</p>

3

<p>AP language is pretty difficult for me and I came here 4 years ago from china.</p>

<p>Being and asian immigrant does help a little but not as much as if you were from mexico</p>

4

<p>No.. im not a US citizen......</p>

5

<p>squarehead// what score are u expecting for the exam? (3,4 or 5?)</p>

6

<p>That would mean that places you in the international student category, which has great amounts of competition that would make it harder for you to gain admission in top tier colleges. </p>

<p>But then again, I don't know what colleges you're looking at.</p>

<p>I had a friend who had very nice stats, (a stand-out student) but was rejected, and many of our counselors think its because she was not a citizen. </p>

<p>But I'm not sure about the whole thing.</p>

7

<p>when you say CITIZEN, do you mean GreenCard (right to live to U.S.) or citizen with the right to vote in elections?</p>