chance me for top 20?? am i cooked

Guys im super stressed so please help me. My bg is im an international student from asia and w/o US citizenship and im trying to get into a top 20 in the US school. Prolly gonn major in marketing and communications as I have a lot of extra curricular dedicated to that. But in terms of my stats would I be competitive???

GPA out of 4, unweighted:

- 3.74 (freshmen year…holy shit)

- 3.86 (sophomore year) (AP HUG and I got a 5)

- mid way into jr year with a 3.86 but can hopefully bump it up to a 3.95 by the end of the year 🙏

(currently taking AP micro/macro, AP lang, AP psych, AP chinese so hopefully I can bag all 5s)

SAT:

I took it the first time in dec and it was absolutely terrible…aiming for above a 1500 tho hopefully

ECA:

- volleyball team (3 years)

- varsity track and field (3 years)

- volleyball club team (2024-ongoing)

- student digital leadership team (2 years)

- internships (2 marketing internships for 6 weeks in total) 8hr/day

- drama production (2 years)

- school subcommittees:

- public relations leader (3 years)

- wellbeing board public relations manager (2 years)

- yearbook club (2 years)

- elderly service club member

please lmk if im cooked bc i always feel like im not doing enough helpppp so if anyone with some experience could give me some advice on what i can do to make my app better it would be so helpful ❤️

Posted Jan 25, 2026, 12:19 PM UTC

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