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