Advice for sophomore?

College Search & Selection
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<p>I'm a high school sophomore in NY already planning for college (I know early...) </p>

<p>I'm on the honors/ap track at school and am currently taking all the highest level classes. </p>

<p>Freshman Year: APWH, honors (geometry, chem, English, Spanish 2)</p>

<p>Sophomore Year: APWH, AP Biology, honors (Spanish 3, algebra 2/trig, English) </p>

<p>Junior Year I will be taking: AP Stats, APUSH, AP Lit, college accounting, honors physics and Spanish,</p>

<p>My current GPA is an unweighted 94.25, not including sophomore grades. </p>

<p>EC's: NHS, National Spanish Honor Society, Spanish club, NSHSS, NSHSS Ambassador, cross country, winter track, spring track, Ignition Mentor for incoming freshman. </p>

<p>I tutor for APWH
Every year since I've become more of a part of Great Strides for Cystic Fibrosis walkathons as my twin has CF.
I volunteer at a track camp/cross country camp over the summer. </p>

<p>Working on work experience/community service/leadership roles. </p>

<p>Have yet to take SAT/ACT.
Aiming for 2200+ but willing to take a 2150+. </p>

<p>I'm a hard diligent worker and I plan on going into finance/accounting. </p>

<p>Some colleges I'm looking at:
Boston College
UNC-CH
Macaulay Honors at Baruch
Northeastern University
Boston University</p>

<p>With FInancial factors, my dad is only a teacher and my mom is only a secretary. Not sure how this will affect me. Plus the fact I have a twin going to college at the same time but he will stay more local due to health conditions (how will this also affect financial aid?) </p>

<p>Willing to take any other suggestions, am I on the right track for these colleges?</p>

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<p>Bump? .</p>

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<p>It wouldn’t hurt to read thru a book on college admissions so you understand now what adcoms look for, rather than finding out after the fact. If you have some time this summer a book to read, for the insight it gives into what admission committees are looking for, is the book “The Gatekeepers”. The author spent a year inside the admissions office at Wesleyan (a top LAC). The book is not a “how-to” guide, but it will show you what the adcoms at very selective schools are thinking when they evaluate candidates.</p>

<p>Having said that, I’d put even more emphasis on suggesting you don’t put all your energy into focusing on college. Not even most. It is an important goal, to be sure, but there is a lot of life to be lived in the next two years! Making every decision turn on how it will affect your chances for college, whether it be as big as which school to pick or as small as going to the mall with some friends vs. studying some more, is not the way to go. As a HS student it might be hard to have perspective on this, but these are the last few years you’ll be living at home and seeing your family every day, the last few spent daily with kids you have have known your whole life, and so on. There’s a reason nostalgic books and movies in which the characters revisit their childhood in some manner are so popular with the public. Hard as it may be to realize when you’re parents just won’t be reasonable or the kids as school seem clique-y and phony, there IS something of value in these years, something you’ll never be able to recapture. So don’t live every moment planning for some day 2+ years off, take time to smell the roses too!</p>

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<p>Bump? .</p>

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<p>If you want to go into finance, stay on the math track (precalculus and calculus). Business and economics majors typically require at least a year of calculus, and finance and economics can get heavily mathematical, needing math courses beyond calculus.</p>

<p>You should really consider the minimum level of math in high school for a college bound student to be the level at which you will be ready to take calculus as a college freshman. You do not want to be paying college tuition to take remedial math courses that you could have taken in high school. If calculus is available to you, it is a good idea to take it after completing precalculus.</p>

<p>Statistics is useful, but should be taken in addition to the math sequence, instead of replacing the more advanced math courses.</p>

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<p>I forgot to add ill be taking IB mathematics SL next year.</p>