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/u/chechylvskitty
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I’m a Colombian student from a really good school in my born city. I just moved to the United States and continued sophomore year here. I really worry about university (actually, I’m aiming to get into Stevens or NJIT), and I’m aware that here is REALLY expensive, specially if it’s a prestigious university. I always think about improving my portfolio and making it more competitive (it’s something that stresses me out), but idk how to. I have a lot of achievements in my old school, but now it’s harder for me since I have to start from scratch, and I’m not sure if universities value them since I did them in other country. Some of them are: 27th place in a National Physics Olympiads, 2nd best presentation in a Philosophy forum, president of 10th grade’s student council and 100 hours of volunteering at teaching English to kids from low income families. I have proof of all of them. In summer, I enrolled to a “dual enrollment program” in WPU (that’ll give me college credits), and I want to do something else but I don’t know where, since my school doesn’t offer a lot of things; Nevertheless, I think I’ll take a Coursera course related to programming, because I’m interested in studying Computer Science (idk if that’ll help). I want to take the SAT in August so I’ll be able to know in which aspect I should improve. I’m not good at sports, so I need to find something else that makes me stand out. My parents always tell me that they cannot afford a university there but I really want to go, and I don’t want to get involved in any long term and high interest debt, I MUST get a scholarship if I want to study. Any tips?
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